Gilles-Hocquart Building, Archives building in Quartier Latin, Montreal, Canada

The Gilles-Hocquart Building is located at 535 Viger Avenue East and features Beaux-Arts architecture with symmetrical columns and ornamental relief sculptures across its facade. Today it houses the Centre d'archives nationales across five floors, with administrative offices, storage vaults, and public reading areas for researchers.

The main building was constructed between 1908 and 1910 as the first pavilion of the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal, founded in 1907, on plans by Louis-Zéphirin Gauthier and Joseph-Égilde-Césaire Daoust. HEC occupied it until 1970, when it moved to the Decelles building; Dawson College followed until 1988. The Quebec state acquired it through the Société immobilière du Québec in 1988, and Dan S. Hanganu's firm renovated it in 1997-1998 for the archives.

The building has borne Gilles Hocquart's name since 2001, honouring the fourteenth intendant of New France, who worked to safeguard documents of the French regime. The name was given when the Quebec national archives moved in. In the atrium stand four statues made by American sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman for the former Royal Bank head office.

The building is located in the Quartier Latin and is easily reached on foot or by public transit serving this central Montreal area. Access to the reading rooms generally requires advance planning, as researchers need to consult materials ahead of time to ensure availability.

The atrium holds four statues made by American sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman for the former head office of the Royal Bank. They are easy to miss among the archive fittings. The 1997-1998 conversion by Dan S. Hanganu and Provencher, Roy et associés created more than 14,000 m² of space, about half of it given over to conservation.