Victoria Pier, Montreal Harbour, Montreal, Canada, 1929

Subjects: Ships & Boats Waterfronts & Harbors
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1929 (White Border)

Back of Victoria Pier, Montreal Harbour, Montreal, Canada, 1929, c. 1929 lithograph postcard — Back

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The view looks across Montreal Harbour to Victoria Pier, with steamships docked along the quay beside a long transit shed. A clock tower and a bridge appear in the distance. Victoria Pier formed a basin at the foot of St. Mary's Current on the St. Lawrence River and was part of Montreal's ocean-going harbour. Its docks served Canada Steamship Lines' St. Lawrence cruise boats. In the late 1920s Montreal was a leading grain port and the second-largest seaport on the continent after New York, with concrete piers, freight sheds, grain elevators, and a terminal railroad serving the waterfront.

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PublisherFolkard Company of Canada Limited

VICTORIA PIER, MONTREAL Victoria Pier constitutes a basin at the foot of St. Mary's current in the St. Lawrence River and forms part of Montreal's Ocean-going Harbour. Victoria Pier includes the docks for the luxurious Canada Steamship Lines' St. Lawrence cruise boats. Montreal has the largest grain port in the world; the second largest seaport on the continent being exceeded only in size by New York. The port's facilities include:—a water area of 12,000 acres, over ten miles of high-level concrete piers and wharves, the Harbour Terminal Railroad with sixty miles of track of which 40 are electrified, modern transit freight sheds with a total floor area of 2,000,063 square feet, four grain elevators with a combined storage capacity of 15,162,000 bushels, a 75-ton floating crane and nine steam-driven locomotive type cranes, a floating drydock accommodating ships of 25,000 tons, a cold storage warehouse with a capacity of 4,628,000 cubic feet, several well-equipped coal unloading plants and a fleet of tugs, dredges, derricks and scows. (23) VICTORIA PIER, MONTREAL HARBOUR MONTREAL, CANADA

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Publisher	Folkard Company of Canada Limited
Series	23
Condition	Good
Place depicted	Victoria Pier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Place depicted	Montreal Harbour, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Notes	Fold-out card with perforated tear-off edges; horizontal fold crease; printed in Canada; copyright 1929. No postmark. Blank, unused back of a fold-over souvenir card ("to open fold and tear off"); printed copyright 1929 on the picture side; linen-textured stock with a white border; light toning/edge wear along the fold.

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Victoria Pier, Montreal Harbour, Montreal, Canada, 1929, postcard, c. 1929. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/victoria-pier-montreal-harbour-montreal-canada-1929. Accessed November 2, 2026.