While many honoured the memories of Canada’s fallen soldiers this month, the city of Montreal was issuing a demolition permit for what long has been known as the city’s church for soldiers.
The Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal will use that permit to demolish the former Trinity Anglican Church, which has stood at thecornerof St. DenisSt. and Viger Ave. since 1865.
The church -rechristened Eglise St. Sauveur after the First World War -is to be torn down starting thisweek by St. Pierre Excavations, which will kick off the destruction by levelling four adjacent greystones that used to house tourist rooms and apartments on the block bounded by Viger, la Gauchetiere St., St. Denis and Sanguinet St. to make room for the superhospital.