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\nThe pair of towers on Sherbrooke street are among the oldest structures in the city, according to the Centre d’histoire de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>.\u00a0 However, sources conflict as to whether they date from the construction of Fort de la Montagne in 1685<\/a>, or whether they were erected when the wooden fortress was rebuilt out of stone after a fire in 1694<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fort de la Montagne <\/em>originally housed a Sulpician mission to convert and school Native Americans. In 1685, 210 people of the Iroquois, Huron and Algonquin Nations inhabited the site. Marguerite Bourgeois and the sisters of the Notre-Dame congregation used the south-west tower (below) as a school and the south-east tower (above) as a residence.<\/p>\n

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The pair of northern towers were demolished in 1854 for the construction of the Grand S\u00e9minaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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