travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Birks Montreal

Hotel Birks Montreal travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Hotel Birks has a storied history as one of the first commercial buildings to move from the Old Port to what would become downtown Montreal in 1879. Birks, with its distinctive blue boxes, is a Canadian and, more specifically, a Quebec institution. The owner of Hotel Birks, Jean Salette, was determined to preserve the heritage and the cachet of the iconic store. When he purchased the property in 2017 he had already been thinking about how Hotel Birks would inh...