Port of Montreal Tower

This guide to the Port of Montreal Tower opens with the Alexandra Pier's 1899 construction as part of a grain-export machine that briefly made Montreal one of the busiest wheat-shipping ports on earth, and traces how the four storage hangars that once swallowed this waterfront outlived the grain trade as a cruise terminal and a parking lot, fenced off from the city around them for a century. It follows the decade-long fix: a 2013 design competition and the glass tower that finally rose in 2023. Listen for what architect Sonia Gagne's gold spiral staircase is meant to recall, and what the view from the deck was built to give back to the city.