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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.
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]
Wilson was born at Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, in 1808.He was the son of Alexander Wilson (b.1758), a native of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, who came to Quebec City where he was a merchant, magistrate and later Seigneur of Granville.
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.
Photographer: Benjamin F Baltzy. Courtesy: Toronto Public Library Digital Collections Geological Survey of Canada building in Montreal, 1852–1874. William Edmond Logan was in Montreal at the time and made it known that he was interested in participating in this survey. Gaining recommendations from prominent British scientists, Logan was ...
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 ...
1792 – Opening of the first post office in Montreal on 20 December. 1793 – Importation of slaves into Canada is prohibited on July 9. 1799 – Mary Griffin obtains the lease to Griffintown from a business associate of Thomas McCord. 1799 – The census of 1799 lists 9,000 inhabitants while that of 1761 lists 5,500.
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.