Q-whose house was this?

   Next time you're up admiring the gravity-plagued bikinis or munching on a blood-drenched steak in this building, pause to think that this is where Thomas Darcy McGee was living in Montreal when he was killed in Ottawa.
   The front of this building, now a hideous flat concrete layer, was once one of the city's most enticing facades, with unusual markings celebrating a certain origin. The original building was set further back on St. Catherine street and was built and offered as a gift to a celebrated Montrealer.
   It was eventually stretched out to St. Catherine and a restaurant implanted in the front. That burnt down and the structure rebuilt and for a while in the 60s, a wax museum, in which a likeness of the real character who once inhabited the place was to stand. 

   The one little bit of the mansion that survived is now at the Loyola campus of Concordia university.
   The facade was covered during World War II to extend the building to St. Catherine Street where a restaurant called the Indian Room was put in. Here is an excellent article by Al Palmer on the subject. The signature shamrock-shaped lintels on the front were put into Concordia University at Loyola, at the library facility and were recently restored.