275, rue Saint-Jacques
The Canada Life, a life insurance company, has built this eight-storey building in 1894-95. Steel beams, a new technique at the time, helped to construct a building style "skyscraper." The company moved to the second floor preferring to rent the ground floor for the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Hanson Brother, a brokerage firm, lawyers, insurers and other customers occupied the rest of the building. The Federation
Assurance Co. of Canada bought the building in 1954 and remained there until the 1980s. Almost empty then, the building was transformed into luxury condos in 2003-04.
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