Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
He is the ancestor of 35,000 living North Americans, and ancestor of the entire population of families with the surname Labelle, through his daughter Anne. There are only two surviving records for the family name of Charbonneau: one for Olivier and his wife, landing in 1659, and another for an unrelated man, Jean and his wife, around 1675.
The Hon. Joseph Frobisher (April 15, 1748 – September 12, 1810) M.P., J.P., was one of Montreal's most important fur traders. He was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada and was a seigneur with estates totalling 57,000 acres. [1] He was a founding member of the North West Company and the Beaver Club, of which he was
The McGill family originated in Ayrshire and had been living in Glasgow for two generations by the time James was born at the family home on Stockwell Street. The McGills were metalworkers and, from 1715 onward, burgesses of the city and members of the Hammermen's Guild, James' father having served as deacon.
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.
1933 – Montreal Children's Theatre founded. 1934 – Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital founded. 1934 – Montreal Neurological Institute founded. 1934 – Honoré Mercier Bridge completed in summer. 1936 – Air Canada founded on August 11 as Trans-Canada Airlines. 1937 – Snowdon Theatre opens in February. 1937 – Pie-IX Bridge ...
Montreal Children's Library was founded in 1929. It was the first free children's library for both English and French-speaking children in Montreal. [1] The initiator of the Montreal movement for a children’s library was Elizabeth Murray, who came from a family with a long tradition of public service and the belief that every child should have the same opportunity to grow up with books that ...
Each of the four faces of the obelisk bears a plaque. The first plaque describes the founding of Montreal by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve on May 18, 1642.. A second plaque describes the creation of the monument by the Société historique de Montréal and provides a quote from the first mass by Barthélemy Vimont.
Education in the sense of training was the exclusive function of families for the vast majority of children until the 19th century. In the Middle Ages the major cathedrals operated education programs for small numbers of teenage boys designed to produce priests. Universities started to appear to train physicians, lawyers, and government ...