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Marché Bonsecours, Vieux Montréal/Bonsecours Market, Old Montreal

Bonsecours Market (French: Marché Bonsecours), at 350 rue Saint-Paul in Old Montreal, is a two-story domed public market. For more than 100 years, it was the main public market in the Montreal area. It also briefly accommodated the Parliament of United Canada for one session in 1849.

 

Named for the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, it opened in 1952. During 1849 the building was used for the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The market's design was influenced by Dublin's Customs House. Construction of this Palladian style building began in 1844 and was designed by British architect William Footner.

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