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The Clock Tower at the eastern end of the Old Port of Montreal is a slender white memorial tower rising some forty-five metres above the waterfront, built in the early 1920s as a monument to the sailors of the Canadian merchant marine who lost their lives in the First World War. Completed in 1922 and dedicated by the Prince of Wales, the tower was conceived both as a working clock and as a war memorial, its mechanism modelled on the principles of London's famous Big Ben, and it stands at the tip...