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Former Champlain gas station

55, Saint-Viateur Street West, Montréal

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Published on : May 12 2021

Last modified on : July 16 2025

Alert submitted by: Justin Bur

Built in 1939, this former gas station, with its singular architecture in the Mile-End and Saint-Viateur Street landscape, ceased its activities in 1975. Between 1976 and 2019, the building was used as an automobile repair garage.

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Ancienne station-service Champlain

Source: Justin Bur

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Ancienne station-service, municipalité de Champlain

Source: Google Street View, 2019

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Ancienne station-service Champlain, rue Saint-Viateur Ouest

Source: Google Street View, octobre 2020

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Listed for sale in 2019, the property was sold in November 2020 for $1.45 million. The building is one of the last remaining examples of the Champlain Oil Company’s gas stations, built in a Canadian architectural style with a pitched roof and the characteristic metal batten. Despite this singular character, the building has no heritage recognition status at either the municipal or provincial level.

Two other Champlain stations of the same architectural style still exist today: one in Champlain near Trois-Rivières (in French), which was cited as a heritage building in 2010 by the local municipality, and another in the Ottawa area.

A demolition permit was issued in 2023. The developer who acquired the land plans to construct a three-storey building with commercial spaces on the ground floor and residential units on the upper floors.

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    Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough

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    Private: company

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    Vacant

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    Champlain Oil Company

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    Commercial

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    1939

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