Old Montreal
Cobblestone quarter of fur-trade warehouses, now boutiques and cafes along the old port streets.
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This guide to Old Montreal recreates a winter dinner in 1808, when twenty of the city's richest fur traders gathered to mimic a river crossing none of them still paddled themselves. It follows the Beaver Club men, among them James McGill and Joseph Frobisher, who built the North West Company's fortune from these stone warehouse streets while hired voyageurs did the actual work. Walk Rue Saint-Paul and you're tracing the district built to store their pelts before ships carried them to London.
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