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Destruction of the Hays House in Dalhousie Square, 1852. Map of buildings destroyed by fire, published in La Minerve, July 15, 1852.. The Great Fire of 1852 was a fire in Montreal that began on July 8, 1852, and left as many as 10,000 people homeless (at a time when the city's population was only 57,000) and destroyed almost half of the city's housing.
This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in Montreal, Quebec and surrounding municipalities on the Island of Montreal.. As of 2018, there are 61 National Historic Sites in this region, [1] of which four (Lachine Canal, Louis-Joseph Papineau, Sir George-Étienne Cartier and The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site) are administered by Parks Canada ...
The Centre d'histoire de Montréal is a museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 335 Place d'Youville in Old Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie. The museum is dedicated to the history of Montreal.
The timeline of Montreal history is a chronology of significant events in the history of Montreal, Canada's second-most populated city, with about 3.5 million residents in 2018, [1] and the fourth-largest French-speaking city in the world.
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.
Old Montreal 45°30′14″N 73°33′25″W / 45.50389°N 73.55694°W / 45.50389; -73.55694 ( Saint-Sulpice Sulpician Towers / Fort de la Montagne
The McCord Stewart Museum, formerly known as the McCord Museum of Canadian History, is a public research and teaching museum.The Museum’s Archives, Documentary Art, Dress, Fashion and Textiles, Indigenous Cultures, Material Culture and Photography collections, containing 2.5 million images, objects, documents and works of art, position it as the custodian of a remarkable historical heritage.