page_title: Place du Canada
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Place du Canada / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plan historique, Détail de l’atlas Pinsonneault, Archives nationales du Canada, Ottawa, NMC-16305, 1907
context_page_description: Place du Canada is a large urban square in downtown Montreal.
context_section_description: At 14,000 square metres (150,000 sq ft)  it is slightly larger than the adjacent Dorchester Square, with a more varied topography due to a downward slope towards De la Gauchetière Street. Place du Canada also differs from Dorchester Square in having manicured, though densely packed, pockets of flora arranged to impede direct lines of sight and diffuse pedestrian traffic. The French term place can roughly be translated as denoting a plaza, which has a different legal definition from squares or parks in Montreal. It is open twenty-four hours per day and is bordered by René Lévesque Boulevard to the North, Peel to the East, De la Cathédrale to the West and De la Gauchetière Street to the South.
caption: Photo of Dominion Square in 1927 and the 1907 Groundplan. Notice the key design differences between the square and the plaza
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