Sun Life building - wikipedia Sun Life building Sun Life Building French : Édifice Sun Life General information Type Office Location 1155, rue Metcalfe Montreal, Quebec H3B 2V6 Coordinates 45 ° 30 ′ 0.75 '' N 73 ° 34 ′ 12.81 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 45.5002083 ° N 73.5702250 ° W ﻿ / 45.5002083 ; - 73.5702250 Coordinates : 45 ° 30 ′ 0.75 '' N 73 ° 34 ′ 12.81 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 45.5002083 ° N 73.5702250 ° W ﻿ / 45.5002083 ; - 73.5702250 Construction started 1913 Completed 1931 Height Roof 122 m ( 400 ft ) Technical details Floor count 24 Lifts / elevators 25 Design and construction Architect Darling, Pearson and Cleveland Le Groupe Arcop References The Sun Life Building ( French : Édifice Sun Life ) is a historic 122 m ( 400 ft ), 24 storey office building at 1155 Metcalfe Street on Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The building was completed in 1931 after three stages of construction. It was built exclusively for the Sun Life Insurance Company. Although the then - new head office of the Royal Bank of Canada at 360 Saint Jacques Street in Montreal was taller by several floors, the Sun Life Building was at the time the largest building in square footage anywhere in the British Empire. The Sun Life Building went through three different stages of construction, the first one starting as early as 1913, but it was not until 1931 that its main 24 - storey tower was erected, thus completing the project. Contents 1 Construction 2 Previous structure 3 Operation Fish 4 Harry S. Truman 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Construction Building in 1948 The stages of construction were as follows : 1913 -- 1918 : 7 - story southern part of base ; 1923 -- 1926 : extension of base eastward and northward ; and 1929 -- 1931 : 16 - story set - back tower. Today, the `` Sun Life '' is Montreal 's 17th tallest building and stands in the middle of the central business district centred on Dorchester Square, dwarfed by neighbouring Place Ville - Marie and the nearby CIBC building. Previous structure The first Sun Life Building, designed by Buffalo architect Richard Waite, was built in 1889 and expanded by Robert Findlay in 1890. The red brick building was home to Sun Life until 1913, when the company moved to the first stage of the newer building. Operation Fish During the Second World War, during Operation Fish, Britain 's gold reserves and negotiable foreign securities were secretly packed in crates labelled ' Fish ' and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. The securities, arriving at Halifax on July 1, 1940, were locked in an underground vault three stories beneath the Sun Life Building, guarded around the clock by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The gold was shipped on to Ottawa. The extremely secretive United Kingdom Security Deposit, operating in the vault, arranged for the sale of Britain 's negotiable securities on the New York Stock Exchange over the next few years to pay for Britain 's war expenses. The 5,000 Sun Life employees never knew what was stored away beneath them and not a single piece of the cargo went missing nor was any information about the operation ever leaked. Harry S. Truman U.S. President Harry S. Truman confided in his memoirs that the `` Sun Insurance building in Montreal '' was his favourite building in the world. See also Sun Life Centre List of old Canadian buildings ( 1809 - 1939 ) List of old Montreal buildings ( 1829 - 1939 ) References Jump up ^ Sun Life Building at Emporis Jump up ^ `` Sun Life Building ''. SkyscraperPage. Jump up ^ Library and Archives of Canada - Hiding British Gold Rémillard, François, Old Montreal : A Walking Tour, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, 1992 External links Official website News story from CBC radio, 6 Jan 1978. 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Question: who owns the sun life building in montreal
Answer: 1155 Metcalfe Street on Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada