Mount Royal Cross turns 100 [Video]

The cross on Mount Royal is celebrating a milestone, it turns 100.

It was first lit up on Christmas Eve 1924 and continues to attract visitors today.

Standing 33 metres high, and 10 metres wide, it creates a big impression for those seeing it for the first time.

Heather MacDermott, a tourist from New Brunswick, said the metal structure doesn’t show its age.

“Well, it’s magnificent, it’s huge,” she said.

French tourist Julien Alcelay said he wanted to see the structure close up. “It’s my first time on Mount Royal and it’s really beautiful,” he said.

The structure has been lighting up the night sky for 100 years and is an iconic fixture of the city landscape according to Heritage Montreal’s Dinu Bumbaru.

“It’s part of the picture because it’s a very visible thing,” he said. “But of course over the years its presence has had different meanings.”

A wooden cross was first erected at the site …