The Boulevard des Sources Interchange facade of Les Galeries des Sources shopping centre.
Steve Brandon posted a photo: The Galeries des Sources shopping centre straddles the municipal border between the Montreal "West Island" suburbs of Dorval, to the south, and Dollard-des-Ormeaux, to the north. It is also within spitting distance of the eastern border of Pointe-Claire. It sits on land at the northeast corner of the des Sources exit on Highway 40, with the Highway 40 north service road to the south, Sources Boulevard to the west, and Brunswick Boulevard to the north.
It was opened in 1966 as the West Island Mall, and was part of Steinberg's Ivanhoe chain of shopping centres. The major tenants were a Steinberg's supermarket, a Miracle Mart, Steinberg's discount department store chain, and Consumer's Distributing (a store with a cumbersome system where you had to fill out a little form to order stuff from a catalogue, and, if it was in stock, it would be brought to the counter; it was very similar to Argos in Britain).
The mall was hit very hard by the closure of Steinberg's and Miracle Mart in the early 1990's, and by the closure of Consumer's Distributing in the mid-1990s, but it was brought back to life in the late 1990s as an "outlet mall", where several big box stores, restaurants, and the Guzzo des Sources 10 multiplex, were opened along the outside of the mall. The inside of the mall beyond the Super C supermarket and Bureau en Gros (Staples Office Depot) was really struggling for years, with a lot of vacant storefronts, but, when I visited the mall for the first time in at least half a decade in May 2008, the interior mall seemed to be much healthier than I remember in the late 1990s, with most storefronts occupied and plenty of customers.
This side of the mall is the side facing the interchange from Highway 40 to Boulevard des Sources.
