Sun Life Building
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The Sun Life Building is a historic 122-metre, 24-story office building at 1155 Metcalfe Street on Dorchester Square in the city's downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Building in 1948
Early etching of the Sun Life by Samuel Herbert Maw
The vault with combination viewer was designed by Frederick S. Holmes and built by York Safe & Lock Co.
Operation Fish
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Operation Fish was the relocation of British money and gold ingots from the United Kingdom to Canada for safekeeping during the Second World War. It was the largest known movement of physical wealth i
Sun Life Building
…brick building was home to Sun Life until 1913, when the company moved to the first stage of the newer building. During the Second World War, during Operation Fish, Britain's gold reserves and negotiable foreign securities were secretly packed in crates labelled 'Fish' and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to…
HMS Bonaventure was forced to remain stationary for a time to protect a treasure ship
HMS Enterprise, one of the treasure ships
The Sun Life Building in Montreal in 1942
Commemorative plaque at the Martins Bank Building in Liverpool