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The Montreal Fire Brigade at the time of the July 8–9, 1852 fire was a group of around 12 volunteer firefighters. The coordinator of this company of volunteers was a man named John Perrigo. Perrigo was not the best fire chief that had ever served the people of Montreal and his actions to combat the fire demonstrated this.
July 8 – Beginning of a fire which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal. October – The Bank of Montreal issues notes like the Bank of England's; denomination water-marked. October 25 – The Toronto Stock Exchange opens. [2] November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal. [3]
In 1852, Montreal had 58,000 inhabitants and by 1860, Montreal was the largest city in British North America, and it was the undisputed economic and cultural centre of Canada. From 1861 to the Great Depression of 1930, Montreal developed in what some historians call its Golden Age.
It housed City Hall between 1852 and 1878. 1847 – The railway from Montreal to Lachine is opened. 1847 – Desbarats & Derbyshire (Georges-Édouard Desbarats and Stewart Derbyshire) start a glass factory at Vaudreuil. 1847 – The first mass is celebrated in St. Patrick's Basilica on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
English: Sugar Making in Montreal, October 1852. By Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872). By Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872). Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-551 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana.
Grand Trunk Locomotive Trevithick utilized on the Victoria Bridge, Montreal, 1859. The company was incorporated on November 10, 1852, as the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada to build a railway line between Montreal and Toronto. [2] The charter was soon extended east to Portland, Maine and west to Sarnia, Canada West.
Mount Royal Cemetery (French: Cimetière Mont-Royal) is a 165-acre (67 ha) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It opened in 1852. Temple Emanu-El Cemetery, a Reform Judaism burial ground, is within the Mount Royal grounds.
Montreal's population grew rapidly, from around 9000 in 1800, to 23,000 in 1825, and 58,000 in 1852. [98] By 1911, the population was over 528,000. The City of Montreal annexed many neighbouring communities, expanding its territory fivefold between 1876 and 1918. [ 99 ]