Thanks for the info. I actually remember visiting one of the rooms up on the 10th floor of the YMCA annex in 1999.
What a shame about the loss of these 2 buildings. It seems that the YMCA use to have a large presence in downtown. Now its isolated in that nondescript 1950's warehouse.
edit: there it is, the Norris building. I admire this buildings horizontality and fenestration. In this picture we can see the Drummond court.
http://archives.concordia.ca/sites/d...5-02-581.3.jpg
I wonder how that part of town looked like and felt like in the 30's, with the gigantic Mont-Royal hotel down the street and about a dozen high-rises between 10-12 floors.