This is large complex is the Police and Fire Station No 11 in Montreal but for some extremely wierd twist of Canadian logic it is now Police and Fire Station No 23. It has a large No 11 on the outside but has fallen down the hit parade of Police and Fire Stations to 23. On my hit parade it is definitely top ten.
It was designed in 1933 by Ludger Lemieux but the highlights of this building are the reliefs on the exterior walls by Joseph Guardo.
Above a side doorway there is a wonderful relief of a fireman's head surrounded by stylised representations of smoke, fire and water.
Elsewhere there are the heads of a policeman and a fireman, each on a background of radiating rays.
Then there is this trio of theives. Two in the act of the crime and one serving his sentence behind bars.
Reference: Vieux-Montreal Tour Booklet, Art Deco Montreal
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