ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization)

The ICAO acronym stands for International Civil Aviation Organization. This building was provided by the Government of Canada. It includes among other thing a conference room that can accommodate up to 540 peoples. The plans of the building were made by the architects firm Ken London in partnerships with the firm Provencher & Roy Associates.
Short History of ICAO

ICAO was created following an international conference in Chicago (In The hotel Stevens) organized by United States and which gathered more then 50 countries in 1944. Until 1947, the agency was provisional, pending its full implementation to be realized in 1947. Already its offices were located in Montreal, temporarily in Windsor Hotel (now demolished). Later the organization moved into the Dominion Square Building and then in 1946 in the huge building of Sun Life , the most prestigious building at the time in Montreal. As conferences and meetings of delegates asked for more space, the Canadian government decided to build a building dedicated to the organization in 1975 on Sherbrooke Street in the building now known as the Center Mont-Royal.

The first president was Mr. E. Warner. In 2008, the organization has 190 member countries, called STATES CONTRACTORS

It is because of this institution that gave Montreal the name of the International District to area west of the University street completely redesign to the early 2000s. The building was officially inaugurated on December 5 this 1996. Except this one, ICAO has 7 regional offices: Paris Bangkok, Dakar, Cairo, Lima, Mexico, Nairobi.