Centennial

Centennial Hall
288 Beaconsfield Blvd.
Phone : 514 428-4480

Centennial Hall is the City's cultural centre. This beautiful waterfront building is home to a number of the community's cultural groups. Cultural exhibitions and concerts are offered in this building.

Office hours :

Monday to Thursday :	From 8:00 a.m. to noon and
	from 1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m
Friday :	From 8:00 a.m. to noon

Facility request form

Residents who wish to reserve facilities with the Leisure Services department may download and print the attached form, then return it:

- in person, to the Recreation Centre, at 1974 City Lane
- by fax, at 514 428-4545
- by email, to loisirs@beaconsfield.ca

Facility request form [PDF]

History

Centennial Hall

In 1699, the Sulpicians, Seigniors of the Island of Montreal, granted several properties on a parcel of land referred to as Terrier 136 to Jean Charlebois dit Jolly. This grant included farms 18 and 19, parts of which were destined to become, respectively, Centennial Hall and Memorial Park.

Early records reveal that during the XVIII and XIX centuries, landowners included Jacques Denis dit St. Denis (1731), Jean Cerat (1781), Jean-Baptiste Denis, Israël Roy and Michel Legros (1851). To this list were added, at later dates, the names of Charles Barbeau, Veuve Joseph St. Denis, G. Duclos and Tancrède Barbeau.

At the turn of the present century, Farm 18 was purchased by Joseph Leonide Perron, (1873-1930) K.C. M.L.C., who was from 1910 to 1916, the first mayor of Beaconsfield. In keeping with its rural past, this property with its own vineyard was turned into a model farm where horses and other domestic animals were raised. It was on this site, circa 1906, that Perron built his summer residence. After Perron's death by gunshot wounds in 1930, the house was rented to the Archambault family.

Léo Dandurand, treasurer-manager of the Montreal Canadians Hockey Club, purchased a portion of the property in 1940 ( 16 acres of Farm 18), only to see the house damaged extensively by fire a few weeks later. The following year, the building was rebuilt in its present form: a near replica of J.L. Perron's original design and named Dan Acres.

In 1945, the City of Beaconsfield bought the adjoining land to the east (Farm 19) from the Perron Estate for $5000.00. In honour of the soldiers who lost their lives in World War II, this property was named MEMORIAL PARK.

In 1953, Dandurand's Dan Acres was deeded to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The building became a youth protection school named Marian Hall.

On January 12, 1965 , the City of Beaconsfield purchased this latter property for $190,000 to accommodate both its Administrative and Technical Services. In 1968, when City Hall moved to its present location, the building was renamed Centennial Hall to commemorate Canada's Centennial Year - 1967, and designated a Cultural Centre.

Text from Beaconsfield and Beaurepaire : a chronicle of the development of the City of Beaconsfield and the district of Beaurepaire by Robert L. Baird and Gisèle Hall, 1998 p. 72-74.