Many of us who are from Montreal, Quebec, have grown up with The Beaver Club, situated at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel on Boulevard Rene Levesque West. The Club has been a very popular site during modern times & has a lot of history & memories connected with it.
Furs were the wealth of early Montreal & those who traded in them, the most colorful citizens of the young community. Woodsmen, Trappers, Explorers, these Fur Traders made their business headquarters at Beaver Hall & their social centre at The Beaver Club.
Once a fortnight, when ice locked the inland waterways, closing the fur routes until spring, The Beaver Club held it's banquets. Though these were served with the finest porcelain & silver, they retained a flavor of the frontier. Not only famous, but fortunate were these men, as no invitation was more coveted than that to a banquet of The Beaver Club.
Hors d'oeuvres, Bouillons, Des eaux Canadiennes, Relieves, Soups, Rotis sur Charbon de Bois, an endless menu was offered to their patrons.
The Beaver Club was a local social centre in Montreal from the times of New France & exists to this day. They still serve meals & provide a warm atmosphere.
The history of New France still remains within those walls as it does in the minds of all who know. And lest we tend to forget, many of the streets in Montreal & throughout the Province of Quebec, are named after these fur traders & explorers & businessmen of early Montreal!
Yes, there is a lot of history at The Beaver Club!
BARB METISSE 2009-04-12 19:12:59