The Telus Tower is an office building at 630

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West in

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. It was built for

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from 1960 to 1962, given the name CIL House. Designed by architect

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from the architectural firm

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with local architects Greenspoon, Freedlander and Dunne, it stands 135.6 m (445 ft) and 34 storeys tall. In 1960, Bunshaft had recently completed his seminal work,

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in New York City. During the 1960s when Montreal's financial district shifted from its St. James Street center to midtown, The CIL House also became the annex headquarters of the Bank of Montreal when it added a main banking branch there. Then-named Dorchester Boulevard West became the financial center of Montreal and Canada with the largest Canadian banks and insurance companies having a presence. In later years, CIL moved its head office operations to Ontario. The Royal Trust later received naming rights to the building when it located its head office there until the merger with the Royal Bank of Canada. The name

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now refers to another building in Toronto. Today, it is home to the Montreal operations of

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, the head office of Telus Health Solutions, but also houses the local offices of NEUF architect(e)s, Accenture,

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, Clyde & Co, Fairstone Financial, Inc., as well as a Bank of Montreal ,

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