1. The Place Ville-Marie complex also included a building at the corner of Cathcart and University, and two additional buildings that were not completed in 1962. These remaining office buildings opened in 1965 and 1969, located at the corners of Mansfield Street and Cathcart Street, and Mansfield and Dorchester Boulevard (Boulevard René-Lévesque), respectively. These components of Place Ville-Marie are beyond the purview of this study. For a broader survey of the development, see France Vanlaethem, Sarah Marchand, Paul-André Linteau, and Jacques-André Chartrand, Place Ville Marie: Montreal’s Shining Landmark (Montreal: Québec Amérique, 2012).
2. Proceedings, Place Ville Marie Opening, 13 September 1962, file 144, box 14, series 2, Donald Gordon Papers, 2129, Queen’s University Archives (QUA).
3. Pierre Berton, “The Lesson of Place Ville Marie,” Toronto Daily Star, 25 September 1962.
4. Jean Pelletier and Ludger Beauregard, "Le centre-ville de Montréal," Revue de géographie de Montréal 21, no. 1 (1967): 5-40
5. David Brown, "The Indoor City: From Organic Beginning to Guided Growth," in Grassroots, Greystones and Glass Towers: Montreal Urban Issues and Architecture, ed. Bryan Demchinsky (Montreal: Véhicule, 1989), 71