Galeries des Sources

This is a list of small shopping centres in the island of Montreal.

Baie d'Urfé

Plaza Baie d'Urfé

Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada on 90 Morgan Street across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The shopping centre is currently owned by First Capital Realty and is anchored by Provigo. It opened in 1967 but was destroyed by a fire 1980. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1981.

Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield

Centre commercial Beaconsfield is a small indoor shopping mall (one of the smallest in the West Island) located in Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada on 50 St. Charles Blvd. across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The anchor of this mall is a Metro Plus.

It was completed in April 1961 by Ivanhoe Corporation.

In 1992 its primary tenants were Steinberg and a Canadian Tire and the former became Metro. In 1995, Canadian Tire relocated to a new standalone store in Kirkland, Quebec, while Dollarama, Wimgym & Royal Bank took over the lease.

The mall was sold to First Capital Realty in 2002.

Royal Bank moved to a new standalone location near the mall in 2008 and the mall's northern half was demolished (except for the former Metro store) and was replaced entirely with glass. Metro Plus replaced the former Canadian Tire store in December 2008.

Côte Saint-Luc

Cavendish Mall

Cavendish Mall (also known as Quartier Cavendish) is an indoor shopping centre in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. It includes a food court, a multiplex movie theatre and a medical clinic: the ''CLSC René Cassin''. A small highrise office-building is adjoined to the mall's southern half. Redeveloped in 2011, the mall was reduced to almost half its original size.

David Cronenberg's 1977 film ''Rabid'' features scenes shot in the mall.

The mall has experienced declining patronage over the past decade due to an aging population. Another serious blow was the closing of its two main anchors: Eaton's and Canadian Tire. Other notable closures included Caplan Duval, The Source, Gap, Consumers Distributing, Music World, Steinberg's, Miracle Mart, Staples, Cineplex theater and restaurants: Pumpernicks, Cattleman's and Katerina's. With the southern half of the mall vacant it had been considered a dead mall throughout the 2000s. In 2010, a large portion of the mall was demolished to make way for a new residential development.

Timeline
*1973: Mall opens. Anchors are Eaton's, Warshaw's, Steinberg's & Miracle Mart
*1978: Warshaws closes; becomes a Canadian Tire
*: Miracle Mart closes; space divided to become Lupton Duval (later Caplan Duval) & Cineplex Odeon
*1991: Opening of J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen.
*1992: Steinberg's ceases operations; this store is taken over by IGA
*1995: Firestone taken over by Pneus Expert.
*1996: Consumers Distributing closes.
*1997: Scotiabank acquires National Trust
*1998: Eaton's closes; part of space becomes Superclub videotron.
*2005: Canadian Tire closes & RadioShack becomes The Source By Circuit City
*2006: The Gap closes.
*2007: Music World, Browns Shoes & The Source close. Dollarama opens in (part of) Canadian Tire space.
*2009: Caplan Duval and Superclub Videotron close.
*2010: 40% of the mall demolished to make way for residential housing development.
*2011: Cavendish Mall rebranded as Quartier Cavendish.
*2015: Staples closes; Econofitness gym opens in its space.
*2018: McDonald's closes.
*2020: Cineplex Odeon multiplex theater closes; taken over by CinéStarz Deluxe.

Consolidation and revitalization

In August 2007 the owners announced a partial demolition to reduce the mall and consolidate its tenants. In August 2010 the remaining tenants were relocated to the north end of the mall. Demolition of the south end began October 2010.

In December 2010 demolition of 40% of mall was completed, effectively removing its southern end. The mall was reduced to of space (for let) with room for 55 stores and space for a small indoor children's play area. Previously the mall was approximately . Extensive reconstruction was done in the old Caplan Duval site, where the CLSC Rene Cassin is now located. The former section of the demolished mall underwent construction of roads and sidewalks along with newly built townhouses and semi-detached homes. This included the sale of 39 lots for single-family homes.

Côte Saint-Luc

Côte Saint-Luc Shopping Centre is a small indoor shopping mall in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1956 by Ivanhoe, it is now operated by First Capital Realty. It was transformed into an enclosed mall in 1970.

The first anchors of the mall were a Steinberg & Zellers. Prohome eventually took place of the Zellers store in 1987. Steinberg went bankrupt in 1992, and the store was sold as an IGA store. Prohome closed in 1997, and Rona Le Quincallier took its place. That store closed in 2005. Jean Coutu, which relocated within the mall, took part of the space, and a Caplan Duval opened in part of the former Rona space in 2010. Also, in the late 2000s, IGA's store was remodelled by counting its exterior.

Since its inception, the mall has always had only two major anchors; the current ones are IGA & Jean Coutu (occupying the former Zellers/Prohome/Rona space).

A Blockbuster store opened in the late 1990s, and closed in 2011.

Decarie Square

Decarie Square is a three-story indoor shopping mall, with two floors of retail shopping and one floor of office space, located on the outskirt of Côte Saint-Luc, a city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The mall was constructed in 1977 at a cost of over $20 million, under the ownership of Oshawa Group. Going back as far back as the mid-1980s, it has been described as a white elephant due its extremely high vacancy rate and low shopper traffic. Even today, much space in the mall remains empty with for renting signs plastered on vacant shop windows.

The mall includes the chain store Winners-HomeSense and various independent discount and service shops. A fitness gym and a video lottery gambling bar are also situated within the mall. Government service offices of the SAAQ automobile licence bureau, Saint-Laurent Local Employment Center and Service Canada employment insurance center are also found within the mall, as well as the Decarie Medical Centre. The third floor is exclusively for rental office space.

By 2011, in an effort to re-purpose much of the vacant shopping space into a more profitable venture, the mall owner, Canpro Investments Ltd., moved ahead with a project to convert more than a fifth of the 486,000 square foot mall's retail space into a medical centre (spanning 3 floors) with room for doctors' offices. The construction and renovation cost was estimated at the time between $10-million to $15-million and was started before any interested parties came forward or signed any leases; in essence a built-it-and-they-will-come strategy. The late David Azrieli, former head of Canpro, was quoted as saying "I'm willing to sign off that by August 2012 it will be ready and occupied." After a slow start, by 2017, the medical center had over 20 tenants with 30,000 square feet still available to lease. The space currently includes a walk in clinic, various specialists and doctor's offices.

Dollard-des-Ormeaux

Galeries des Sources

Galeries des Sources (originally West Island Mall until 1988) is an indoor shopping mall owned by Cogir located in the bordering cities of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec & Dorval, Quebec, Canada on Des Sources Blvd. & Quebec Autoroute 40. Popular stores include Marché Adonis, Cinemas Guzzo, Canadian Tire and Bureau en Gros.
There are restaurants in this mall with no indoor entrances, including the Bellepro's restaurant, Marathon Souvlaki (occupying some of the old M Store space and Jack Astor's). Other stores with no indoor entrances are the clinics, the Guzzo movie theatre, a Canadian Tire & Optimum.

The mall opened on October 4, 1966, and was anchored by Steinberg's and Miracle Mart. It was built by Ivanhoe Corporation which also was the original manager of the mall until January 2002.

The mall was expanded in 1986, and Steinberg moved out to the expanded space, becoming a Marché Du Jour (later Steinberg Plus in 1988 & Xtra in 1991). In addition, Miracle Mart was renamed M Store, and reducing the space of the store as well, giving part of the former Miracle Mart space to Bouclair. The Steinberg space (not counting Marché Du Jour/Steinberg Plus/Xtra) was left vacant until Canadian Tire occupied it in 1991. A mechanic centre was built as a result of expansion of the former Steinberg store that time. After Canadian Tire moved in, it kept the old Steinberg outdoor entrance, which has since been demolished. In 1992, the Xtra store & M Store closed after Steinberg went bankrupt; Super C & Club Biz replaced the former Xtra store. In 1993, the west mall entrance was discontinued in favor of a Coconuts play park (which closed in early 1999; now a dental office & pediatric medical centre). Winners occupied the former M space in 1994, alongside a Club Ultima. Club Ultima closed in 1996, with a 10-screen Cinemas Guzzo occupying the old space in 1998. Club Biz went bankrupt, and its previously occupied site became Bureau en Gros which officially launched on June 1, 1996 (though the store had already opened its doors before that date).

Also, Consumers Distributing left the mall in 1996, with its current tenants Corbeil Appliances occupying the first half of it in 1998. The second half was occupied by a Stokes warehouse store.

There is no mall entrance to Cinemas Guzzo. There was no outdoor entrance to Club Ultima, thus the indoor Club Ultima entrance became a Rubino shoes store. The Rubino shoes store moved to the old Stokes warehouse store in the early 2000s, with EconoSport occupying the old Rubino space, and it is currently used by Benix & Co.

In the late 2000s, Bouclair reduced its space, and an Elixir restaurant took the other half of the former Bouclair space. Following the expansion of Canadian Tire in 2009, the mall entrance for Canadian Tire was closed, and L'Aubainerie Entrepôt took the old mall entrance. By 2011, Quebec's only Rob McIntosh store closed; the space remains empty as of today.

Dorval

Dorval Gardens

Dorval Gardens (French: Les Jardins Dorval) is a shopping mall in the suburb of Dorval, in Montreal, Quebec, located on Dorval Avenue near Autoroute 20. It is the oldest shopping centre in the West Island and the fourth in Montreal after Norgate, Village Champlain and Le Boulevard. It was built in 1954 by Sam Steinberg and his Ivanhoe Corporation. The shopping centre was owned for more than 45 years by Ivanhoe but was sold in 2001. It is currently managed by CentreCorp Management Services Ltd. Anchor stores are Walmart, Hudson's Bay (closing in late 2021) and Maxi.

Dorval Gardens was originally built as a large L-shaped strip mall which opened in 1954 with 35 stores. Anchor stores in 1954 were Morgan's department store and Steinberg's supermarket. Steinberg's and most of the original 35 tenants opened on April 7, 1954. A minority of tenants opened at slightly later dates including Morgan's which inaugurated on April 29, 1954. At 57, 000 square feet of floor space, it was the largest of the three suburban Morgan's locations until it was surpassed by a new store at Lawrence Plaza in North York.

Morgan's added a second floor to its store in 1961. The Morgan's store was destroyed by a major fire on April 21, 1969, which caused over $1,000,000 in damage and required the help of firefighters from other neighbouring West Island municipalities to contain the blaze. Morgan's was rebuilt afterwards and reopened in March 1970 after occupying a temporary location in the site of a former bowling alley in the same building as the Dorval Theatre. It was rebranded as The Bay in 1972.

It was converted into an enclosed shopping centre in 1968. In the 1970s, Dorval Gardens was surrounded with glass (save for Steinberg's and The Bay). In 1985, the mall was expanded into its current layout, doubling its number of stores: the original parts of the mall correspond to what is to the south or west of the enclosed walkway, including the spaces currently occupied by Maxi and Hudson's Bay; areas to the east or north of the walkway were added. These additions included a Pascal hardware store, which relocated from a nearby strip mall.

The Pascal store was closed and emptied in 1991, before reopening as Zellers in October 1992. Zellers closed its doors on January 22, 2012. Walmart assumed the lease and remodelled the store before opening it to the public in September 2012. This location was not one of the 39 Zellers stores that Walmart Canada acquired from Target Canada at a similar time.

In mid-1992, the Steinberg's supermarket became a Provigo despite the presence at the time of another grocery store with the same banner in the adjacent strip mall (located on 960 Herron Road). By late 1992, the Provigo at Dorval Gardens had been rebranded to its sister chain Maxi which remains to this day.

A Dollarama operated for a number of years before closing in late 2009. After a one-year absence, Dollarama returned to the mall in the space of Pharmaprix which itself has relocated to Dollarama's former space.

Sports Experts returned to the mall, opening November 1, 2012 and occupying the same space it did in the 2000s (formerly Cohoes in the 1990s and early 2000s).

Hudson's Bay announced it will be permanently closing its store location at Dorval Gardens by September 2021, after 67 years of operation.

Montreal

1400 Sauvé Ouest (defunct)

The mall formerly located at 1400 Sauvé Ouest was an indoor shopping centre anchored by Maxi and Canadian Tire. Over the years, it fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 2017 in order to clear the land for a new mixed-used development. The new project is composed of 5 high-rise residential towers, with commercial space available on street level.

Boulevard Shopping Centre

Le Boulevard Shopping Centre is a small indoor shopping centre at the corner of Jean-Talon East and Pie-IX Boulevard in Montreal. The mall was officially inaugurated on September 29, 1953, with 32 stores. It was the third shopping centre built in the Montreal area, preceded by Norgate and Village Champlain.

Le Boulevard is built in the shape of a L and is composed of 70 stores. The former The Bay store (originally Morgan's) and Metro Plus (originally Steinberg's) each border a side of the mall, with Canadian Tire (formerly Pascal's) being in the middle. Geographically, Le Boulevard is situated partly in the Saint-Michel neighbourhood and partly in the former city of Saint-Leonard. The mall is just a block north of the Rosemont neighbourhood.

Le Boulevard is managed by Crofton Moore. The mall underwent extensive renovations in the 2000s. New tenants in the revitalized centre include Urban Planet, Dollarama, La Senza, Tim Hortons, Jean Coutu, Lunetterie New Look, and others. Longtime tenants of the mall include the Royal Bank of Canada.

The Bay closed its Le Boulevard location on September 14, 2018, a few days shy of the store's 65th anniversary. Its first floor was occupied by a Surplus RD furniture store, but closed in 2021.

Le Boulevard was slated to close on December 1, 2021, after 68 years and be demolished to accommodate the addition of new stations of the Montreal Metro Blue Line. However it was later announced that the shopping mall will remain open and that only its parking lot will be used for the extension of the Blue Line. Since the Société de transport de Montréal had already been forced by a provincial court to purchase the entire mall from owner Crofton Moore as part of its expropriation of the land, Le Boulevard was get a new landlord. Société de transport de Montréal gave the right to operate the shopping centre to its subsidiary Transgesco which in turn hired the service of Colliers International to support it and to manage the operations of Le Boulevard.

Comparison of anchor spaces:

Zellers

A small Zellers store was in the Boulevard shopping centre from about 1955 until 1976. It directly touched the north side of the Morgan/Bay store. After Zellers closed, The Bay expanded into the former space of Zellers and merged it into its own store.

Today, the old Zellers space can be recognized as the section of the vacant Bay store that had one floor (in contrast to the original section of The Bay which had 2 floors). The basement of The Bay, which was closed to the public in 2011, was also part of this defunct Zellers store.

Carré Lucerne

Carré Lucerne is a new mixed-used development that opened in 2018, and is located in Town of Mount-Royal owned by First Capital Realty. Formerly known as Centre commercial VMR, and Initially opened on May 8, 1956, as an outdoor strip mall with 22 stores, the property was demolished in 2015. The main anchors are Provigo and Pharmaprix.

Carrefour de La Pointe

Carrefour de La Pointe is small indoor mall and one of the few enclosed malls in Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough. It first opened on August 26, 1976, with Steinberg and Zellers as anchors.

In 1981, the mall was sold to First City & ABRIM, then ABRIM & SITQ in 1990, later Ivanhoé Cambridge and then to its current owners Creccal Placements Ltée in 2004. By June 2012, Zellers closed down, and was replaced by the current Walmart in October 2012.

The mall also has minor tenants such as Reitmans, Jean Coutu & Dollarama, as well as two in-mall restaurants: Prince d'Orient and Montaza. There are also free-standing SAQ Sélection & Tim Hortons buildings.

Carrefour Langelier

Carrefour Langelier is a small indoor shopping mall located in the St. Léonard borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the corner of Langelier Blvd. & Jean-Talon Blvd. The major anchors are Walmart & Ciné Starz, and minor anchors such as TD Canada Trust, Jean Coutu & Dollarama.

The mall opened in 1970 as Centre Langelier with 50 tenants anchored by the Marché Union & Woolco. In the 1970s, the Marché Union evolved into Aliments Hypermarché and after IGA Boniprix; it eventually closed in the 1990s.

In 1994, Walmart replaced Woolco. A standalone Burger King used to exist at the mall, but was closed in 2009 and demolished in 2011. By 2012, the Cinémas Guzzo theatre was sold to Ciné Starz.

In October 2012, Walmart transitioned to a Walmart Supercentre, without an increase in size of its retail space. It remains to this day the last of the original 1994 Walmart Canada stores in the Montreal Island that is still located in its former Woolco space.

Centre Le Cavalier (defunct)

Centre Le Cavalier was a shopping mall located in the LaSalle borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada located on Champlain Blvd., next to the Place LaSalle shopping centre. The major anchors were Maxi & Walmart.

The mall began in 1971 with a Woolco, Wise & Dominion Stores. By the late 70s, Wise had pulled out of the mall and its space was divided between Canada Post's sorting office and 3 boutiques on the mall. By the 1980s, Dominion became Provigo. By 1992, Provigo became Héritage. In 1994, Wal-Mart took the former space of Woolco after Woolworth sold Woolco to Walmart. In 1995, Héritage was renamed Maxi. In the summer of 1999 the Maxi store in this mall was shuttered and used by Walmart as extra storage space. In 2002, Walmart closed and they relocated to a standalone location next to the Carrefour Angrignon shopping centre and the last stores were also closed.

The mall was demolished in sections between 2002 and 2003. The former Walmart store was removed in the autumn of 2002 to be replaced by an IGA Extra store. Shortly thereafter, the former Provigo was demolished to allow for construction of condos. Canada Post and Scotiabank stayed in the mall right until the end in 2003. In the early 2000s space that had formerly been a Sunnys gas bar was cleared (upon demolition it was landscaped) and paved into new parking space to allow the vacant parking space adjacent to the Caisse Populaire to be redeveloped as a new Jean Coutu store.

Domaine

Centre Domaine is small indoor shopping centre located in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the corner of Sherbrooke St. & Langelier Blvd., on Granby Av. It is a two-minute walk from the Langelier métro station and about 1 km from the nearby larger Place Versailles shopping centre. A shopping mall formerly managed by Cadillac Fairview, it is currently operated by First Capital Realty. The anchors are Metro Plus and Walmart Canada.

It opened on August 13, 1959, with 25 tenants anchored by Steinberg and Woolworth, and were shortly joined by Zellers and Reitmans

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