Since 1965, it has been located in the Tour de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Tower), Montreal's third-tallest building.

The shareholders voted Lorn MacDougall its first Chairman of the Governing Committee, a position he held until poor health forced him to retire in 1883.

[citation needed] In 1926, the "Montreal Curb Market" was created to allow trading in speculative and junior stocks.

For the separatist group Front de libération du Québec, the Montreal Stock Exchange represented a bastion of Anglo-Canadian power.

On February 13, 1969, they detonated a bomb at the Stock Exchange that blew out the northeast wall and injured 27 people.

This change, which reflected the economic reality that most equity trading had moved to the TSE, caused consternation among those in favour of political independence for the province of Quebec.

[3][4] The acquisition was completed on 1 May 2008 and the corporation subsequently was renamed TMX Group Inc.[5] On February 9, 2011, the London Stock Exchange announced that they had agreed to merge with the TMX Group, Montreal Exchange's parent, hoping to create a combined entity with a market capitalization of $5.9 billion (£3.7 billion).

Xavier Rolet, who currently is CEO of the LSE Group, would head the new enlarged company, while TMX Chief Executive Thomas Kloet would become the new firm president.

Based on data from December 30, 2010 the new stock exchange would be the second largest in the world with a market cap 48% greater than the Nasdaq.

A cash and stock bid of $3.7 billion CAD, in hopes of blocking the LSE Group's takeover of TMX.

As part of the 2008 federal climate plan,[10] in addition to internal reductions, large regulated industrial emitters in Canada are able to choose to buy emission units on the domestic carbon market.