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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]
James Cochrane (15 September 1852 – 28 May 1905) was a Canadian construction contractor and politician, the Mayor of Montreal, Quebec between 1902 and 1904.. Cochrane was educated at the British Canadian School and Collegiate College, then began a career in construction-related activity.
Depiction of the Bonsecours Market and Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal, 1853.. Montreal was established in 1642 in what is now the province of Quebec, Canada.At the time of European contact the area was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete and distinct group of Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people.
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 ...
Municipalities of Quebec around 1965. The municipal history of Quebec started in 1796 with the creation of administrations for Montréal and Quebec City, but it really developed immediately prior to the creation of the Province of Canada in 1841 with the formation of municipal districts, [1] followed in March 1845 when the Parliament of the Province of Canada adopted an Act to create local ...
The Place d'Youville in Old Montreal is a historical square in Montreal, named after Marguerite d'Youville. The roads from the Place Royale and McGill Street meet at this point. [ 1 ] The square is notable as the site of St. Anne's Market , a market building that once housed the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada between 1844 and 1849 ...
1535 – September 19, Cartier starts his journey from Quebec City to Montreal, while in search of a passage to Asia. 1535 – Cartier visits Hochelaga on October 2, claiming the St. Lawrence Valley for France. [8] He becomes the first European to reach the area now known as Montréal. Cartier estimates the population to be "over a thousand".