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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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most wicked swear sa)-ing, I would fain see the clause in Adams will thatbequeaths all that vast heritage to my brothers of Spainand Portugal. However that ma)- be, brave CaptainCartier found the great Gulf of St. Lawrence and cameon to the village of Hochelega. The captain very prop-erly took possession of all he saw in the name of the Its peculiar population, where the Scotch Presbyterianjostles the Jesuit, with convent walls abutting factoriesand French barristers in English courts, makes it of thedeepest interest to the scholar and the politician. Rapidl) increasing in population, with a large traffic,both by land and sea, with progressive men and a rest-less competitor across the boundary line, the future ofMontreal is assured. In 1760 its population was 3,000;in 1S50, 57,700; in 1S70, 179,000 and in 1890, 217,000. It was in November, 1S61, that the first street car waspronounced tres bon by the inhabitants of the city ofMontreal. The line was a short one, operated by horses and
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CAR HOUSE—MONTREAL STREET RAILWAY. king, and named the beautiful eminence near the town,Mount Royal, and the settlement at its base, in laterdays became to the hybrid tongues, Montreal. With Cartier and the French priests came the Frenchpeople, of whom great numbers still live in the surround-ing country, speaking their own tongue, so that streetcar conductors and policemen must know both languages.Canada was ceded to the English in 1763, and Montrealbecame the stronghold of the English power. Since 1840 radical and swift changes have come toMontreal, and the beautiful city has become modernized,and to-day is one of the best cities on the continent andthe center of commercial Canada, with banks, churches,architecture, colleges, schools, railroads, bridges andimprovements becoming our century and our country. using sleighs in winter. It was known as the MontrealStreet Railway Company. This name has never beenchanged through all its vicissitudes, although the owner-ship has frequently

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