Industrial Architecture Montreal 
 
 

 

IN143

  W.C. Macdonald's Tobacco Factory

2455, rue Ontario est;

Building Type: factory
Materials: stone foundation, brick
Completed: 1875
Restoration: 1980
Note: In 1974 the company was bought by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International and became RJR Macdonald.

 

Images:
Clock tower (1999)
View of original factory (1999)
Detail of main entrance (1999)

Sources:

Burgess, Joanne. Paysages industriels en mutation. Montréal: Université du Quebec à Montréal; Écomusée du fier monde, 1997. : 54-55
Visuals: exterior photo from 1876.

 

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