Description

The Canadian Club of Montreal was created at a table in the Freeman Restaurant located on a street then known as St. James. On Monday, October 6, 1905, John A. Gunn and W.H.D. Miller, two former members of the Canadian Club of Toronto (founded in 1897), discussed the possibility of founding a similar club in Montreal. George Lyman, E. H. Cooper and Andrew Ross McMaster were also present at the meeting. Mr. McMaster became the club's first president in 1905. Subsequently, during a second meeting, the group called upon others, namely Edwin Howard, Pierre Beullac, H.C. Monk and A. Huntly Duff, to hold further discussions. These were the men who laid the foundations of the new club and organized the first official luncheon speech of the Canadian Club of Montreal, a tradition that continues today, more than one hundred years later! Today, the Club's members, men and women, come mainly from the business and professional communities. They are a representative sample of the Montreal population.