DCHP-3

St. James Street

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a Montreal street on which are located many banks and financial houses exerting great influence on Canadian business; hence, the moneyed interests of Quebec and Eastern Canada collectively.

Quotations

1939
The decisions made in St. James St. and Wall St. have more effect upon the lives of the people in Canada than have the trifling measure which our worthy representatives at Ottawa are able to secure.
1946
The northern prairie frontier . . . joined in with the general prairie agitations against the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, which for the western farmer is even more directly symbolical of metropolitanism than is "St. James Street."
1963
Bay Street and St. James Street may well have been dilatory in examining the investment prospects offered by this province [British Columbia].