SDV INTERNATIONAL Meets U.S. Consulate in Montreal, Canada

SDV INTERNATIONAL Meets U.S. Consulate in Montreal, Canada

MONTREAL, CANADA - SDV INTERNATIONAL visited the U.S. Consulate in Montreal. The first U.S. Consular agency in Montreal was opened on May 29, 1854, by consular agent Canfield Dorwin of Vermont. The office was raised to Consulate General status in July of 1857, when American officials transferred the office of the U.S. Consul General to the British North American Provinces from Quebec City to Montreal, in recognition of Montreal’s growing commercial importance. Nearly half of the trade between Canada and the U.S. at the time transited the Port of Montreal. Quebec province previously hosted numerous U.S. consular offices and commercial agencies – including posts in Coaticook, Gaspé, Rimouski, St. Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke and Trois Rivières – but most of these establishments had been consolidated by 1915. Today, the U.S. government is ably represented in Quebec by Consulate Generals in Montreal and Quebec City. SDV INTERNATIONAL engages with U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials to support various missions that are critical to U.S. national interest.