The Redpath Sugar Refinery
The Redpath Condominiums, a luxury Condominium development, on the corner of St-Patrick and Montmorency.
The site used to be the Redpath Sugar Refinery, founded on the banks on the Lachine Canal in 1854
by industrialist John Redpath after he made his first fortune as a major contractor on
the construction of the Lachine Canal.
Note the corner of the sprawling old Northern Electric buiding on the right in the background.
This historic old entrance to the Redpath Sugar Refinery dates back to 1902. It is now in the shadow
of the Redpath Condominiums. Badly neglected during construction, this entrance has been
mosly dismantled and now serves as a fence for the condo parking lot. It is a rather poor tribute to what
was once Canada's largest industrial plant.
Then: The new conveyer Bridge, Redpath Sugar Refinery (1964)
Now: May and October 2005 as the rest of the site slowly goes condo.
Note the original Redpath logo. This is perhaps the oldest still-used logo in Canada.
See it soon because it is fading fast!
Once Montreal's largest industrial facility, Redpath Sugar moved its head office to
Toronto in the 1950's and closed the St Henri factory in 1980. In 1960, control of the
company passed from the Redpath familiy to UK-based sugar giant Tate & Lyle.
The buildings spent the next 20 years
vacant and unmaintained
After years of debate on what to do with the site, including a few attempts of converting it to social housing, in 2002 Gueymard Real Estate bought the site and started the arduous of cleaning it up and converting it to luxury condos.
The Lachine Canal was critical to the success of the site. Hydro power provided power for machinery, ships docked next to the building and unloaded raw materials and took away finished products, and water from the canal filled the boilers. Today Redpath Condo owners can dock their boats in Redpath Marina.
