Dalhousie Square - the second of its name - is laid out in 2003-2004. Located between Berri and St. Hubert, next to the former Dalhousie Station, it connects Old Montreal and the new Faubourg Québec, a vast real estate project launched in the late 1980s.
The site occupied by the square has had a long and complex history evoked by the modern layout. First, rails and bumpers recall the important railway past the site, in addition to the former Dalhousie Station. A series of small fixtures that cross the square through and remind them about the plot of the St. Paul Street which continued to the northeast before the great excavations for the Canadian Pacific railway facilities. Street joined the former Dalhousie Square, created in 1823-1824, which was located a little further east than the current, on top of a natural ass back later disappeared completely in favor of rail facilities and viaduct which extends Notre Dame.
Floor markings also commemorate the former site of the fortification walls built in 1732-1734 at this location. Before the first Dalhousie Square is created, the door of Quebec (1733-1734) allowed to cross the city walls and was used of passage between St. Paul Street and highway which continued outside the walls in old Faubourg Québec. Door and walls were demolished in the early nineteenth century. At the end of the same century, excavations for railway purposes have removed all vestiges and even, in depth, the soil that supported them. Contemporary sculpture by artist Alloucherie recalls the presence of the old door and to visually identify, from Berri, the limit extreme northeast of the old walled city.
In 2004, we inaugurated the Dalhousie Square as well as the new architectural lighting sector (station, retaining walls of the tunnel, etc.) designed in the Lighting Plan Old Montreal.
