Hotel de Ville de Montréal (City Hall)

Montréal City Hall has a more turbulent history than its peaceful faade suggests. The building went up between 1872 and 1878, and survived a disastrous fire in 1922. And it was from this balcony the French President General de Gaulle uttered his famous "Vive le Québec libre !" in 1967.

Photo 281, Aug 2005