BMO – Banque de Montréal

Quel lieu historique magnifique! Temoin du début de la colonie. Travail d’artiste pour la décoration de cette banque ! Quel luxe et qu’elle beauté!

Hidden near the Palais de Congrais, this still working branch of the Royal Bank of Canada is a step back in to the past. It is the most visually stunning branch of any bank that I remember being in and it must be sheer joy for everyone who works and visits there. I’d change banks if this was the experience I could expect from my bank.
This bank is really from a bygone era with beautifully decorated ceilings, velvet curtains, chandeliers, beautifully designed. Everything was decorated and finished with attention to detail only possible in something of this age. Even the Royal Mail logo was still present so many years after the mail was collected by Canada Post on the mail collection system set in to the wall.
The elevator doors were a feast of images, each individual. Surrounded in marble, I cannot imagine ever getting bored or too familiar with these elevators. All of the interior reflected the opulence of the elevators really from the war memorials through to the entrance.
Worth a special visit as anyone can enter and take a look around during normal bank hours.