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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]
Search. Search. Appearance. ... In office 1867–1877: ... He served as a City Councillor of Montreal from 1848 to 1849 and from 1850 to 1852 and Mayor of Montreal ...
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 ...
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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.
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.
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 ...