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style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Hochelaga_(village)" title="Hochelaga (village)">Hochelaga (village)</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">(16th century)</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">(since 17th century)</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company">North West Company</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">(1779–1821)</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/2002%E2%80%9306_municipal_reorganization_of_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="2002–06 municipal reorganization of Montreal">Merger and demerger</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">(2001–2005)</td></tr></tbody></table></td> </tr><tr><th 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href="/wiki/Articles_of_Capitulation_of_Montreal" title="Articles of Capitulation of Montreal">British takeover</a></td><td style="text-align:right;"> 1760</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> opened</td><td style="text-align:right;"> 1825</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buildings_in_Montreal" title="Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal">Burning of the Parliament</a></td><td style="text-align:right;"> 1849</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Expo_67" title="Expo 67">Universal and Int'l Exhibition</a></td><td style="text-align:right;"> 1967</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/October_Crisis" title="October Crisis">October Crisis</a></td><td style="text-align:right;"> 1970</td></tr><tr 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title="Name of Montreal">Etymology of 'Montreal'</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:History_of_Montreal" title="Template:History of Montreal"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:History_of_Montreal" title="Template talk:History of Montreal"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:History_of_Montreal" title="Special:EditPage/Template:History of Montreal"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>timeline of Montreal history</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Chronology" title="Chronology">chronology</a> of significant events in the history of <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, Canada's second-most populated city, with about 3.5 million residents in 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the fourth-largest French-speaking city in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1044870489">@media all and (max-width:720px){body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .tocright{display:none}.mw-parser-output .tocright{width:100%!important}}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tocright{float:right;clear:right;width:auto;margin:0 0 0.5em 1em}.mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-left{clear:left}.mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-both{clear:both}.mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-none{clear:none}}</style><div class="tocright"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pre-Colonization">Pre-Colonization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Pre-Colonization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The area known today as <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> had been inhabited by <a href="/wiki/Algonquin_people" title="Algonquin people">Algonquin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wyandot_people" title="Wyandot people">Huron</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> for some 2,000 years, while the oldest known artifact found in Montreal proper is about 2,000 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the earliest <a href="/wiki/Oral_history" title="Oral history">oral history</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Algonquins" class="mw-redirect" title="Algonquins">Algonquin</a> migrated from the Atlantic coast, arriving, together with other <a href="/wiki/Anishinaabe" title="Anishinaabe">Anicinàpek</a>, at the "First Stopping Place" (Montréal). There, the nation found a "turtle-shaped island" marked by <i>miigis</i> (<a href="/wiki/Cowrie" title="Cowrie">cowrie</a>) shells.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a>, or <i>Haudenosaunee</i>, were centred, from at least 1000 CE, in northern New York, and their influence extended into what is now southern Ontario and the Montreal area of modern Quebec.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1142 – The <a href="/wiki/Iroquois_Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquois Confederacy">Iroquois Confederacy</a> is, from oral tradition, said to have been formed in 1142 CE.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the modern <a href="/wiki/Iroquois_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquois language">Iroquois language</a>, Montréal is called <i>Tiohtià:ke</i>. Other native languages, such as <a href="/wiki/Algonquin_language" title="Algonquin language">Algonquin</a>, refer to it as <i>Moniang</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/St._Lawrence_Iroquoians" title="St. Lawrence Iroquoians">St. Lawrence Iroquoians</a> established the village of <a href="/wiki/Hochelaga_(village)" title="Hochelaga (village)">Hochelaga</a> at the foot of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tremblay_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tremblay-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="16th_century">16th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 16th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1535 – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Cartier" title="Jacques Cartier">Jacques Cartier</a> names the <a href="/wiki/St._Lawrence_River" title="St. Lawrence River">St. Lawrence River</a> in honour of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence" title="Saint Lawrence">Saint Lawrence</a> on August 10, the <a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">feast day</a> of the Roman martyr. Prior to this, the river had been known by other names, including Hochelaga River and Canada River; Cartier penetrates far into the interior for the first time, via the river.</li> <li>1535 – September 19, Cartier starts his journey from <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a> to Montreal, while in search of a passage to Asia.</li> <li>1535 – Cartier visits Hochelaga on October 2, claiming the St. Lawrence Valley for France.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He becomes the first European to reach the area now known as Montréal. Cartier estimates the population to be "over a thousand".</li> <li>1535 – October 3, Cartier climbs the mountain on the <i>Île de Montréal</i> and names it <i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mont Royal</a></i>; the <a href="/wiki/Name_of_Montreal" title="Name of Montreal">name Montréal</a> is generally thought to be derived from "Mont Royal".</li> <li>1556 – On his map of Hochelega, Italian geographer <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Ramusio" title="Giovanni Battista Ramusio">Giovanni Battista Ramusio</a> writes "<i>Monte Real</i>" to designate <i>Mont Royal</i>.</li> <li>1580 – The <a href="/wiki/St._Lawrence_Iroquoians" title="St. Lawrence Iroquoians">St. Lawrence Iroquoians</a> appear to have vacated the Saint Lawrence River Valley sometime prior to 1580.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="17th_century">17th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="1600s"></span> </p> <ul><li>1601 – On his map, <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Vasseur_de_Beauplan" title="Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan">Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan</a> writes <i>Hochelaga</i> for the inhabited area, and calls the hill <i>Mont Royal</i>.</li> <li>1603 – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain" title="Samuel de Champlain">Samuel de Champlain</a> reaches the <a href="/wiki/Island_of_Montreal" title="Island of Montreal">Island of Montreal</a> (<i>Île de Montréal</i>) and <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Perrot" title="Île Perrot">Île Perrot</a></i>, and describes <i>Mont Royal</i>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Saint-Louis" title="Lake Saint-Louis">Lake Saint-Louis</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Rapids" title="Lachine Rapids">Lachine Rapids</a>.</li> <li>1608 – <a href="/wiki/Qu%C3%A9bec_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Québec City">Québec City</a> is founded by Samuel de Champlain.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1610s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1620s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1610–1629"><span id="1610.E2.80.931629"></span>1610–1629</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1610–1629"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain,_1609.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain%2C_1609.jpg/220px-Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain%2C_1609.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain%2C_1609.jpg/330px-Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain%2C_1609.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain%2C_1609.jpg/440px-Defaite_des_Yroquois_au_Lac_de_Champlain%2C_1609.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="734" /></a><figcaption>1609 scene, including self-portrait, reprinted from <i>Deffaite des Yroquois au Lac de Champlain</i> (<i>Defeat of the Iroquois of Lake Champlain</i>), drawn by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain" title="Samuel de Champlain">Samuel de Champlain</a> (1613)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1611 – Samuel de Champlain, in the company of a young <a href="/wiki/Wyandot_people" title="Wyandot people">Huron</a>, whom he had taken to and brought back from France on a previous voyage, visits the <i>Île de Montréal</i>.</li> <li>1611 – Champlain decides to establish a <a href="/wiki/Fur" title="Fur">fur</a> <a href="/wiki/Trading_post" title="Trading post">trading post</a> at present-day Pointe-à-Callière.</li> <li>1611 – A young man named Louis drowns, thus giving his name to both the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Rapids" title="Lachine Rapids">Sault-Saint-Louis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Saint-Louis" title="Lake Saint-Louis">Lake Saint-Louis</a>.</li> <li>1611 – <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helen%27s_Island" title="Saint Helen's Island">Saint Helen's Island</a> is named by Samuel de Champlain, in honour of his wife.</li> <li>1613–20 – The Compagnie des Marchands operates in <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a> but, in 1621, loses its rights in to the Compagnie de Montmorency, due to a breach of their contract.</li> <li>1615 – <a href="/wiki/Denis_Jamet" title="Denis Jamet">Denis Jamet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Le_Caron" title="Joseph Le Caron">Joseph Le Caron</a> say the first Catholic Mass on the island of Montréal.<sup id="cite_ref-mass_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mass-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pioneer_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pioneer-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1615 – Samuel de Champlain, expected at the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Rapids" title="Lachine Rapids">Saint-Louis Rapids</a> in late June, does not arrive by July 8, prompting the Aboriginals, angry, to leave, taking with them <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Le_Caron" title="Joseph Le Caron">Joseph Le Caron</a> and twelve Frenchmen.</li> <li>1615 – Les Franciscains des <a href="/wiki/Recollets" class="mw-redirect" title="Recollets">Recollets</a>, an order of French missionaries, are the first to settle Canada. A century later, a <a href="/wiki/Faubourg" title="Faubourg">faubourg</a> of Montréal adjacent to their residence in that city was called <i>Faubourg des Récollets</i>, a name still in use today.</li> <li>1627 – <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu" title="Cardinal Richelieu">Cardinal Richelieu</a> replaces the <i>Compagnie de Montmorency</i> with the <a href="/wiki/Company_of_One_Hundred_Associates" title="Company of One Hundred Associates">Company of One Hundred Associates</a> (presided over by <a href="/wiki/Jean_de_Lauzon" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean de Lauzon">Jean de Lauzon</a>). The French Crown grants the new <i>Company</i> a monopoly on the fur trade, and directs it to colonize the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">St. Lawrence</a> Valley.</li> <li>1627 – the King of France introduces the <i><a href="/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France" title="Seigneurial system of New France">seigneurial</a></i> system to <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a>, and forbids settlement by anyone other than <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholics</a>.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1630s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1640s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1630–1649"><span id="1630.E2.80.931649"></span>1630–1649</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1630–1649"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lausonjean.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Lausonjean.JPG/220px-Lausonjean.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Lausonjean.JPG/330px-Lausonjean.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Lausonjean.JPG 2x" data-file-width="352" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Jean de Lauzon</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge.jpg/220px-Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge.jpg/330px-Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="515" /></a><figcaption>Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jeanne_Mance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Jeanne_Mance.jpg/220px-Jeanne_Mance.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Jeanne_Mance.jpg/330px-Jeanne_Mance.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Jeanne_Mance.jpg/440px-Jeanne_Mance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2160" data-file-height="2880" /></a><figcaption>Jeanne Mance, Maisonneuve Monument</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1634 – <a href="/wiki/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res" title="Trois-Rivières">Trois-Rivières</a> founded by <a href="/wiki/Sieur_de_Laviolette" title="Sieur de Laviolette">Sieur de Laviolette</a>.</li> <li>1635 - Death of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain" title="Samuel de Champlain">Samuel de Champlain</a>, 25 December.</li> <li>1636 – <a href="/wiki/Jean_de_Lauzon" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean de Lauzon">Jean de Lauzon</a> becomes the <i><a href="/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France" title="Seigneurial system of New France">seigneur</a></i> of the <i>Île de Montréal</i>.</li> <li>1636 – <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIII" title="Louis XIII">Louis XIII</a> grants the <a href="/wiki/La_Prairie,_Quebec" title="La Prairie, Quebec"><i>seigneurie</i> of Madeleine</a> to Jacques La Ferté, priest at <i>Sainte Madeleine de <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teaudun" title="Châteaudun">Châteaudun</a></i>.</li> <li>1639–49 – <a href="/wiki/Sainte-Marie_among_the_Hurons" title="Sainte-Marie among the Hurons">Sainte-Marie among the Hurons</a> in use. The establishment of Montréal was part of a large <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">missionary</a> movement based in France.</li> <li>1641 – Establishment of the <i><a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_Notre-Dame_de_Montr%C3%A9al_pour_la_conversion_des_sauvages_de_la_Nouvelle-France" class="mw-redirect" title="Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal pour la conversion des sauvages de la Nouvelle-France">Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal pour la conversion des sauvages de la Nouvelle-France</a></i>.</li> <li>1641–42 – The colonists spend the winter at <i><a href="/wiki/Saint-Michel,_Quebec" title="Saint-Michel, Quebec">St Michel</a></i>, near <a href="/wiki/Sillery,_Quebec_City" title="Sillery, Quebec City">Sillery</a>.</li> <li>1642 – Maisonneuve arrives on May 17; the mission is named <i>Ville-Marie</i> and built at <i>Place Royale</i>.</li> <li>1642 – <a href="/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy_Vimont" title="Barthélemy Vimont">Barthélemy Vimont</a>, the superior of the Jesuits, leads the first mass in Ville-Marie on May 18.</li> <li>1642 – The construction of Fort <i>Ville-Marie</i> begins around the initial hamlet as protection against Iroquois attacks.</li> <li>1642 – Construction of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Richelieu" title="Fort Richelieu">Fort Richelieu</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Montmagny" title="Charles de Montmagny">Charles de Montmagny</a> begins on August 13 when 40 men led by Montmagny arrive.</li> <li>1642 – Significant flooding on December 23.</li> <li>1643 – The first <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_Cross" title="Mount Royal Cross">Mount Royal Cross</a> is erected on January 6.</li> <li>1643 – On June 9, the first persons are killed at Montréal during an attack by <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a>.</li> <li>1643 – At the end of August, a vessel with a reinforcement commanded by <a href="/wiki/Louis_d%27Ailleboust_de_Coulonge" title="Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge">Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge</a> arrives at <i>Ville-Marie</i>.</li> <li>1644 – Iroquois attack on March 16 and on March 30.</li> <li>1645 – The hospital is initially located within the fort. Maisonneuve grants the first concession outside the fortifications to <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Mance" title="Jeanne Mance">Jeanne Mance</a> to build <i><a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4tel-Dieu_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal">Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal</a></i>; work begins on it on October 8, 1645.</li> <li>1646–53 – War with the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a>.</li> <li>1646 – <a href="/wiki/Fort_Richelieu" title="Fort Richelieu">Fort Richelieu</a> is abandoned at the end of the year and burned down by the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> in February 1647.</li> <li>1647 – Jacques de La Ferté from the <a href="/wiki/Company_of_One_Hundred_Associates" title="Company of One Hundred Associates">Company of One Hundred Associates</a> grants <a href="/wiki/La_Prairie,_Quebec" title="La Prairie, Quebec"><i>La Prairie</i></a> to the <a href="/wiki/Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuits</a>.</li> <li>1648 – The first white child is born in <i>Ville Marie</i>, Barbe Meusnier, on November 24.</li> <li>1648 – A fortified <a href="/wiki/Windmill" title="Windmill">windmill</a> is built by <a href="/wiki/Paul_de_Chomedey,_Sieur_de_Maisonneuve" title="Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve">Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve</a> (in the area now known as <a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal#Early_French_settlement" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a>).</li> <li>1648 – The Iroquois invade <a href="/wiki/Huronia_(region)" title="Huronia (region)">Huronia</a> and wipe out most of the <a href="/wiki/Wyandot_people" title="Wyandot people">Wendat</a> and the French missionaries living in the territory.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1650s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1660s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1650–1669"><span id="1650.E2.80.931669"></span>1650–1669</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1650–1669"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Louis_Prud%27homme_(MontrealColonist,1611-1671).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Louis_Prud%27homme_%28MontrealColonist%2C1611-1671%29.png/220px-Louis_Prud%27homme_%28MontrealColonist%2C1611-1671%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Louis_Prud%27homme_%28MontrealColonist%2C1611-1671%29.png/330px-Louis_Prud%27homme_%28MontrealColonist%2C1611-1671%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Louis_Prud%27homme_%28MontrealColonist%2C1611-1671%29.png 2x" data-file-width="414" data-file-height="623" /></a><figcaption>Louis Prud'homme</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1650 – The first commercial brewery in New France established in Montréal by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Prud%27homme" title="Louis Prud'homme">Louis Prud'homme</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1651 – On July 26, 200 Iroquois attacked the <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4tel-Dieu_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal">Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal</a>.</li> <li>1653 – The Great Recruitment, still better known as <i>La Grande Recrue</i> — <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Mance" title="Jeanne Mance">Jeanne Mance</a> redirects funds donated by <a href="/wiki/Marie_Madeleine_d%27Aiguillon" class="mw-redirect" title="Marie Madeleine d'Aiguillon">Duchesse d’Aiguillon</a> for the Hôtel-Dieu hospital to <a href="/wiki/Paul_Chomedey_de_Maisonneuve" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve">Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve</a> for the recruitment of a hundred people; the contingent arrive at Ville-Marie on 16 November. Of the 95 who embark in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Nazaire" title="Saint-Nazaire">Saint-Nazaire</a>, 24 are massacred by Iroquois, four drown, and one burned when his house caught fire.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1653 – <a href="/wiki/Congregation_of_Notre_Dame" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregation of Notre Dame">Congregation of Notre Dame</a> founded.</li> <li>1657 – In mid-August, four priests (Gabriel de Queylus, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Souart" title="Gabriel Souart">Gabriel Souart</a>, Antoine d'Allet, and Dominique Galinier) belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Saint-Sulpice" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Saint-Sulpice">Society of Saint-Sulpice</a> in Paris land in Montreal to take over from the <a href="/wiki/Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuits</a>.</li> <li>1657 – <a href="/wiki/Marguerite_Bourgeoys" title="Marguerite Bourgeoys">Marguerite Bourgeoys</a> – the town's first teacher, who would found a community of teachers, opens the first school in a former stable on 25 November.</li> <li>1658 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve signs a contract with <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Archambault" title="Jacques Archambault">Jacques Archambault</a> to have him dig "a well in Fort Ville-Marie in the middle of the Court or parade ground."</li> <li>1659 – Jeanne Mance brings three nuns from the <a href="/wiki/Sisters_of_St._Joseph" title="Sisters of St. Joseph">Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph</a> in France to act as staff at Hotel-Dieu.</li> <li>1663 – <a href="/wiki/1663_Charlevoix_earthquake" title="1663 Charlevoix earthquake">Charlevoix earthquake</a> struck 5:30 p.m. on 5 February.</li> <li>1663 – March, seigniorial rights to the Île de Montréal are transferred by the <a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Notre-Dame_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Société Notre-Dame de Montréal">Société Notre-Dame de Montréal</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Saint-Sulpice" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Saint-Sulpice">Sulpicians</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Sulpicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulpicians">Sulpicians</a> become the seigneurs of Montréal, taking over from Chomedey de Maisonneuve.</li> <li>1663 – <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a> made a royal province.</li> <li>1663 - Emigration of approximately 800 young <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> women (to become known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Filles_du_roi" class="mw-redirect" title="Filles du roi">filles du roi</a></i>, or King's daughters) to <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a> begins, under sponsorship of King <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XIV of France">Louis XIV of France</a>, and continues through 1673.</li> <li>1665 – <a href="/wiki/Fort_Chambly" title="Fort Chambly">Fort Saint Louis</a> (now Fort Chambly) built.</li> <li>1665 - <a href="/wiki/Carignan-Sali%C3%A8res_Regiment" title="Carignan-Salières Regiment">Carignan-Salières Regiment</a> rebuilds Fort Richelieu.</li> <li>1666 – According to the <a href="/wiki/1666_census_of_New_France" title="1666 census of New France">1666 census of New France</a>, Ville-Marie recorded 582 inhabitants. 24 of the 111 families living in Montréal had already been formed in France. A few houses, flanked by a windmill and fort, and connected by a footpath (now beneath <a href="/wiki/Rue_Saint-Paul_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rue Saint-Paul (Montreal)">Rue Saint-Paul</a>), represented the beginnings of Ville-Marie.</li> <li>1666–75 – <a href="/wiki/Fort_Saint-Jean_(Quebec)" title="Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec)">Fort Saint-Jean</a> built.</li> <li>1667 – Almost from its inception, pelts were bartered in Montreal, which, after 1667, becomes a centre for trade. An annual market for pelts takes place in June on the common of <a href="/wiki/Pointe-%C3%A0-Calli%C3%A8re_Museum" title="Pointe-à-Callière Museum">Pointe-à-Callière</a>.</li> <li>1668 – <a href="/wiki/Maison_Saint-Gabriel_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Maison Saint-Gabriel Museum">Maison Saint-Gabriel</a> is bought to receive the <a href="/wiki/Filles_du_Roi" class="mw-redirect" title="Filles du Roi">King's Daughters</a>. The current structure dates back to 1698, when it was rebuilt following a fire in 1693.</li> <li>1669 – <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a> ordered that men of <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a> between 16 and 60 years of age must perform mandatory military service; every parish would have its militia.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1670s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1680s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1670–1689"><span id="1670.E2.80.931689"></span>1670–1689</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1670–1689"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Louis_Jolliet.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Louis_Jolliet.JPG/210px-Louis_Jolliet.JPG" decoding="async" width="210" height="359" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Louis_Jolliet.JPG/315px-Louis_Jolliet.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Louis_Jolliet.JPG/420px-Louis_Jolliet.JPG 2x" data-file-width="861" data-file-height="1470" /></a><figcaption>Louis Jolliet statue, Parliament Building (Quebec)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DollierRuesMontreal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/DollierRuesMontreal.jpg/220px-DollierRuesMontreal.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/DollierRuesMontreal.jpg/330px-DollierRuesMontreal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/DollierRuesMontreal.jpg/440px-DollierRuesMontreal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1930" data-file-height="1414" /></a><figcaption>1672 street grid survey of <i>Ville-Marie</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1670s – A large orchard is planted on the side of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a> during the mid-1670s.</li> <li>1670 – <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> founded.</li> <li>1670–80 – Initially, trading is done in people's homes; traders soon set up stalls between <a href="/wiki/Rue_Saint-Paul_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rue Saint-Paul (Montreal)">Rue Saint-Paul</a> and the Little St. Pierre River, west of the marketplace. Natives camp on the Point, numbering about 900 in 1672.</li> <li>1671 — founding of the municipality of Verdun.</li> <li>1672 – Commissioned by <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Dollier_de_Casson" title="François Dollier de Casson">François Dollier de Casson</a>, superior of the Sulpicians; notary and surveyor <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9nigne_Basset_Des_Lauriers" title="Bénigne Basset Des Lauriers">Bénigne Basset Des Lauriers</a> makes the first street layout in Montreal. The original plan of <a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a> consists of 10 streets, of which three run parallel to the river– <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Street" title="Notre-Dame Street">Notre-Dame Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rue_Saint-Paul_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rue Saint-Paul (Montreal)">Rue Saint-Paul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Jacques_Street" title="Saint Jacques Street">Saint Jacques Street</a> –and seven extend perpendicular from the river, including Saint Pierre, Saint François Xavier, Saint Jean Baptiste, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Vincent.</li> <li>1672 – The cross is planted to designate the future location of the first <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)</a> on June 29 and the first five stones are laid the next day.</li> <li>1672 – As a <a href="/wiki/Churchwarden" title="Churchwarden">churchwarden</a>, Pierre Gadois supervises the construction of a public well in the Place d'Armes.</li> <li>1674 – <a href="/wiki/Louis_Jolliet" title="Louis Jolliet">Louis Jolliet</a> is wrecked at <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Rapids" title="Lachine Rapids">Sault-Saint-Louis</a> in May.</li> <li>1676 – A <a href="/wiki/Sulpician" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulpician">Sulpician</a> mission is founded at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a>.</li> <li>1677 – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bizard" title="Jacques Bizard">Jacques Bizard</a> is sent to Montreal by <a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Buade_de_Frontenac" title="Louis de Buade de Frontenac">Frontenac</a> to investigate claims of illegal sale of alcohol to the natives. However, the leader of the smugglers, Montreal Governor <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Marie_Perrot" title="François-Marie Perrot">François-Marie Perrot</a>, imprisons <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bizard" title="Jacques Bizard">Bizard</a>. With the help of <a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Buade_de_Frontenac" title="Louis de Buade de Frontenac">Frontenac</a>, Bizard is liberated and <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Marie_Perrot" title="François-Marie Perrot">Perrot</a> is removed from office.</li> <li>1678 – <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours_Chapel" title="Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel">Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel</a> is completed.</li> <li>1679 – <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon,_Sieur_du_Lhut" title="Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut">Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut</a> reaches the western end of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Superior" title="Lake Superior">Lake Superior</a> in the fall of the 1679 where he concludes peace talks between the <a href="/wiki/Ojibwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Ojibwa">Saulteur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Sioux</a> nations.</li> <li>1679 – The brigantine <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Griffon" title="Le Griffon">Le Griffon</a></i>, commissioned by <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle" class="mw-redirect" title="René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle">René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle</a>, is towed to the southern end of the <a href="/wiki/Niagara_River" title="Niagara River">Niagara River</a>, to become the first ship to sail the upper <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Lakes (North America)">Great Lakes</a>.</li> <li>1680 – <a href="/wiki/Kateri_Tekakwitha" title="Kateri Tekakwitha">Kateri Tekakwitha</a> dies.</li> <li>1680–85 – More and more <a href="/wiki/Voyageurs" title="Voyageurs">voyageurs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coureurs_des_bois" class="mw-redirect" title="Coureurs des bois">coureurs des bois</a> and missionaries were exploring the regions upriver from Montreal. As the new territory opens up, part of the fur trade shifts toward the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a>. Fewer and fewer natives came to Montreal, and the annual fur fair became less popular from 1680 to 1685.</li> <li>1682 – Montrealer <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle" title="René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle">René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle</a> travels to the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>.</li> <li>1682 – <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Church_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Church (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Church</a> is completed; constructed by <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bailly" title="François Bailly">François Bailly</a>. Throughout the 18th century the city's primary landmarks are the <a href="/wiki/Bell_tower" title="Bell tower">bell tower</a> of Notre-Dame and <a href="/wiki/The_Citadel,_Montreal" title="The Citadel, Montreal">Citadel hill</a>.</li> <li>1684 – The <a href="/wiki/Congregation_of_Notre_Dame" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregation of Notre Dame">Congregation of Notre Dame</a> convent is destroyed by a fire.</li> <li>1684–87 – <a href="/wiki/Saint-Sulpice_Seminary_(Montreal)" title="Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal)">Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal)</a> is built.</li> <li>1686 – <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Whitehall" title="Treaty of Whitehall">Treaty of Whitehall</a>.</li> <li>1687–89 – A wooden palisade is erected to protect the town.</li> <li>1687 – An epidemic of <a href="/wiki/Typhus" title="Typhus">typhus</a> kills approximately 150 people in the autumn.</li> <li>1689 – On June 13, construction was begun by the Montreal Sulpicians on a 2 km canal to support their monopoly on flour-milling. <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Dollier_de_Casson" title="François Dollier de Casson">François Dollier de Casson</a> asserts that such a canal (<a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a>) would supply water to Montreal's mills while simultaneously facilitating westbound navigation.</li> <li>1689 – <a href="/wiki/Lachine_massacre" title="Lachine massacre">Lachine massacre</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1690s">1690s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1690s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1690 – February 8: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville leads more than 160 French Canadians and 100 Indian warriors to Schenectady, New York which they attack and burn in retaliation for the Lachine Massacre.</li> <li>1690 – <a href="/wiki/The_Citadel,_Montreal" title="The Citadel, Montreal">The Citadel, Montreal</a> built.</li> <li>1694 – Louis Tantouin de la Touche is named subdelegate of the intendant.</li> <li>1694 – Frères Hospitaliers de la Croix et de Saint-Joseph, known after their founder as the Frères Charon, founded.</li> <li>1694 – <a href="/wiki/Louis-Hector_de_Calli%C3%A8re" title="Louis-Hector de Callière">Louis-Hector de Callière</a> is awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Louis" title="Order of Saint Louis">cross of Saint-Louis</a>. During his years as <a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="List of governors of Montreal">governor of Montreal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> war has enhanced the importance of that position.</li> <li>1694 – <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vachon_de_Belmont" title="François Vachon de Belmont">François Vachon de Belmont</a> completes the mission on the slopes of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a>. Its circular stone fortress towers still stand on the grounds of the Grand Seminary on <a href="/wiki/Sherbrooke_Street" title="Sherbrooke Street">Sherbrooke Street</a>.</li> <li>1695 – <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Perrot" title="Nicolas Perrot">Nicolas Perrot</a> brings the <a href="/wiki/Miami_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami tribe">Miami</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sauk_people" title="Sauk people">Sauk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menominee" title="Menominee">Menominee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Potawatomi" title="Potawatomi">Potawatomi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fox_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox tribe">Fox</a> chiefs to Montreal at the governor's request, regarding war with the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a>.</li> <li>1695 – <a href="/wiki/Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu,_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Quebec">Saint-Charles-Sur-Richelieu</a> is granted to Zacharie-François Hertel, Sieur de la Fresnière (March 1).</li> <li>1696 – Fire at Fort de la Montagne. The <a href="/wiki/Hurons" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurons">Hurons</a> are transferred to Fort Lorette.</li> <li>1696 – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Le_Ber" title="Jacques Le Ber">Jacques Le Ber</a> is ennobled.</li> <li>1698 – A chapel dedicated to St. Anne is founded at the south end of Murray street. Le Quartier Ste-Anne becomes infamous as a den of licentiousness, and the clergy restricts the sale of liquor around the chapel.</li> <li>1698 – Bishop <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_de_la_Croix_de_Chevri%C3%A8res_de_Saint-Vallier" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier">Saint-Vallier</a>, returning from France, accompanies two English gentlemen, one of them a Protestant minister, on a visit to <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Le_Ber" title="Jeanne Le Ber">Jeanne Le Ber</a>.</li> <li>1700 – At the turn of the 18th century Montreal's population is about 1,500 souls, which gradually grows to about 7,500 in the year 1760, at the time of the British conquest.</li> <li>1700 – Gédéon de Catalogne is employed by the <a href="/wiki/Sulpicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulpicians">Sulpicians</a> in October to dig the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a>.</li> <li>1700–31 – <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vachon_de_Belmont" title="François Vachon de Belmont">François Vachon de Belmont</a> is the fifth superior of the Montreal <a href="/wiki/Sulpicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulpicians">Sulpicians</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="18th_century">18th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="1700s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1710s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1701–1719"><span id="1701.E2.80.931719"></span>1701–1719</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1701–1719"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1701 – August 4, <a href="/wiki/Great_Peace_of_Montreal" title="Great Peace of Montreal">Great Peace of Montreal</a> : The French and Native Americans from across the continent conclude a historic alliance, at Pointe-à-Callière.</li> <li>1705 – Montreal is now the official name for the city formerly named Ville-Marie.</li> <li>1705 – Place Royale is designated as a marketplace.</li> <li>1706 – After 1706, deforestation along the riverbank is advanced enough that the opening of a road along the lake, from <a href="/wiki/La_Pr%C3%A9sentation,_Quebec" title="La Présentation, Quebec">La Présentation</a> to the tip of the Île de Montréal, is decreed.</li> <li>1709 – Slavery becomes legal in <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a>.</li> <li>1711 – The court orders the construction of a stone wall around the city.</li> <li>1713 – Jurisdiction of the Government of Montreal begins to the west of <a href="/wiki/Maskinong%C3%A9,_Quebec" title="Maskinongé, Quebec">Maskinongé, Quebec</a> and Yamaska and ends at the extremity of the inhabited area, namely fort Saint-Jean, <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauguay" title="Châteauguay">Châteauguay</a> and Vaudreuil.</li> <li>1713 – <a href="/wiki/Michel_B%C3%A9gon_(1667%E2%80%931747)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michel Bégon (1667–1747)">Michel Bégon</a> decides to erect stone fortifications. The wooden walls are replaced with stone due to the threat of British attack.</li> <li>1713 – <a href="/wiki/Pointe-Claire,_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Pointe-Claire, Quebec">Pointe-Claire</a> <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parish</a> is first established in the name of <a href="/wiki/St._Francis_of_Sales" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Francis of Sales">St. Francis of Sales</a> and dedicated to <a href="/wiki/St._Joachim" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Joachim">St. Joachim</a> the following year.</li> <li>1717–1744 – Stone fortifications were erected according to plans by the architect Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry. The fortifications correspond roughly to the present-day limits of <a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a>, with Rue Berri to the east, Rue de la Commune to the south, <a href="/wiki/McGill_Street_(Montreal)" title="McGill Street (Montreal)">Rue McGill</a> to the west, and Ruelle de la Fortification to the north.</li> <li>1719 – Pointe-aux-Trembles <a href="/wiki/Windmill" title="Windmill">windmill</a> is built at the corner of <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Street" title="Notre-Dame Street">Notre-Dame Street</a> and Third Avenue. Its three storeys make it the tallest windmill in Quebec that still stands.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1720s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1730s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1720–1739"><span id="1720.E2.80.931739"></span>1720–1739</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1720–1739"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1721 – The great fire. New wood constructions are prohibited inside city limits.</li> <li>1726 – A dam is built to link the river bank to the <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_la_Visitation" title="Île de la Visitation">Île de la Visitation</a> – one of the most impressive feats of civil engineering of the French regime. It remains in operation until 1960.</li> <li>1731 – <a href="/wiki/Orchards" class="mw-redirect" title="Orchards">Orchards</a> covered 90 <a href="/wiki/Arpent" title="Arpent">arpents</a> (76 acres; 31 ha) on the Île de Montréal, on the side of the mountain and around town. From 1731 to 1781, the surface area occupied by the orchards rise from 90 to 402 arpents (76 to 340 acres; 31 to 137 ha).</li> <li>1732 – <a href="/wiki/1732_Montreal_earthquake" title="1732 Montreal earthquake">Montreal earthquake</a> at 11:00 a.m. on September 16.</li> <li>1734 – The construction of <a href="/wiki/Fort_St._Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort St. Frédéric">Fort St. Frédéric</a> begins.</li> <li>1734 – <a href="/wiki/Marie-Joseph_Ang%C3%A9lique" title="Marie-Joseph Angélique">Marie-Joseph Angélique</a> (a slave owned by <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Couagne" title="Thérèse de Couagne">Thérèse de Couagne</a>) is tried and convicted of setting fire to her owner's home, burning much of what is now referred to as <a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a>.</li> <li>1737 – Inauguration of the <a href="/wiki/Chemin_du_Roy" title="Chemin du Roy">Chemin du Roy</a> on the <a href="/wiki/North_Shore_(Laval)" class="mw-redirect" title="North Shore (Laval)">North Shore (Laval)</a> between Montréal and <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a>. The road's construction takes 4 years and requires the construction of 13 bridges. After its completion, people can travel from one city to the other in 4 days.</li> <li>1737 – <a href="/wiki/Plague_(disease)" title="Plague (disease)">Plague</a> Epidemic.</li> <li>1738 – <a href="/wiki/Marie-Marguerite_d%27Youville" title="Marie-Marguerite d'Youville">Marie-Marguerite d'Youville</a> founds the <a href="/wiki/Grey_Nuns" title="Grey Nuns">Grey Nuns</a>. In 1747, she becomes director of the <a href="/wiki/Grey_Nuns%27_Hospital" title="Grey Nuns' Hospital">Montreal General Hospital</a>.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1740s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1750s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1740–1759"><span id="1740.E2.80.931759"></span>1740–1759</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1740–1759"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand.png/220px-Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand.png/330px-Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand.png 2x" data-file-width="373" data-file-height="456" /></a><figcaption>Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1740 – 22,000 people live under the government of <i>Montréal</i>. The population is mostly rural, the city having a population of 4,200.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1749 – <a href="/wiki/Fort_de_La_Pr%C3%A9sentation" title="Fort de La Présentation">Fort de La Présentation</a> built.</li> <li>1749 – <a href="/wiki/Pehr_Kalm" title="Pehr Kalm">Pehr Kalm</a> visits Montreal, where he is hosted by the Baron de Longueuil. Kalm notes that "some of the houses of the town are built of stone, but most are of timber, though very neatly built."</li> <li>1749 – While planning further exploration of the <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan_River" title="Saskatchewan River">Saskatchewan River</a> and points west, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gaultier_de_Varennes,_sieur_de_La_V%C3%A9rendrye" title="Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye">Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye</a> dies in Montréal on December 5.</li> <li>1749–51 – De la Visitation Church (1747 <a href="/wiki/Gouin_Boulevard" title="Gouin Boulevard">Gouin Boulevard</a>) is built to replace the small chapel at Fort Lorette. It is the oldest church in Montreal and the only one built during the old régime still standing. The church is consecrated by <a href="/wiki/Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand" title="Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand">Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand</a> in 1752.</li> <li>1754 – <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours_Chapel" title="Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel">Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel</a> is destroyed by fire.</li> <li>1754 – <a href="/wiki/Auberge_Le_Saint-Gabriel" title="Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel">Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel</a> established.</li> <li>1754–63 – <a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a>.</li> <li>1759 – <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Picquet" title="François Picquet">François Picquet</a> flees to Montreal with his Indian troops.</li> <li>1759 – <a href="/wiki/Fort_L%C3%A9vis" title="Fort Lévis">Fort Lévis</a> built.</li> <li>1759 – In August, <a href="/wiki/Francis_de_Gaston,_Chevalier_de_Levis" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis">Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis</a> is sent to protect Montreal from a British advance.</li> <li>1759 - The British army defeats the French on the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham" title="Battle of the Plains of Abraham">Plains of Abraham</a> allowing the French to keep their language and Catholic churches and schools such as they were.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1760s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1770s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1760–1779"><span id="1760.E2.80.931779"></span>1760–1779</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1760–1779"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1760 – On May 9, British ships arrive at <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a>, forcing the <a href="/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army">French Army</a> to Montreal.</li> <li>1760 – July to September, The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Campaign">Montreal Campaign</a>, a British three-pronged attack, including the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Thousand_Islands" title="Battle of the Thousand Islands">Battle of the Thousand Islands</a>, is led by General <a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst" title="Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst">Jeffery Amherst</a></li> <li>1760 – <a href="/wiki/Henri-Marie_Dubreil_de_Pontbriand" title="Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand">Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand</a> dies at <a href="/wiki/Saint-Sulpice_Seminary_(Montreal)" title="Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal)">Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal)</a></li> <li>1760 – The British, under Amherst, march from <a href="/wiki/Lachine,_Quebec" title="Lachine, Quebec">Lachine</a> through Nazareth Fief (now <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>), through the Recollet Gate, and into the walled city of Montreal. The <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Capitulation_of_Montreal" title="Articles of Capitulation of Montreal">Articles of Capitulation of Montreal</a> are signed on September 8, in the British camp before the city of Montréal. Most North American fighting ends with the surrender of Montréal.</li> <li>1760 – On September 21, <a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst" title="Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst">Jeffery Amherst</a> appoints brigadier <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gage" title="Thomas Gage">Thomas Gage</a> as military governor of the Montreal district.</li> <li>1763 – <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">Treaty of Paris</a>. Montreal was already the centre of the <a href="/wiki/North_American_Fur_Trade" class="mw-redirect" title="North American Fur Trade">North American Fur Trade</a>.</li> <li>1764 - Civil Courts established. French Canadian Advocats and Proctors allowed. Justices of the Peace appointed to deal with small matters</li> <li>1765 – March 22 - The <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a> is passed.</li> <li>1766 – The <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a> is repealed. Civil actions between French Canadians only be judged by French Canadian jurors only and actions between British subjects only be judged by British subjects only.</li> <li>1768 Montreal traders now allowed to winter in the fur trade giving a boost to the city</li> <li>1774 – The <a href="/wiki/British_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="British Parliament">British Parliament</a> passes the <a href="/wiki/Quebec_Act" title="Quebec Act">Quebec Act</a> that allows Quebec to maintain the French Civil Code as its judicial system and sanctions the freedom of religious choice, allowing the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> to remain.</li> <li>1774 - Antoine Foucher (1717–1801), of <a href="/wiki/Terrebonne,_Quebec" title="Terrebonne, Quebec">Terrebonne</a>, with various <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Officer_(armed_forces)" title="Officer (armed forces)">officers</a>, stages the first performance of a <a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re" title="Molière">Molière</a> play in Montreal at his home.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1775 – <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Canada_(1775)" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Canada (1775)">Invasion of Canada (1775)</a>; Montreal capitulates to the Americans on November 13.</li> <li>1775 – August 21 – Generals <a href="/wiki/Hon_Yost_Schuyler" title="Hon Yost Schuyler">Hon Yost Schuyler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Richard Montgomery</a>, with 1,000 Americans come to Canada and invite the inhabitants to rebel.</li> <li>1775 – September 17-November 3 – <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_St._Jean" title="Siege of Fort St. Jean">Siege of Fort St. Jean</a>.</li> <li>1775 – September 25 – attempting to take Montreal, <a href="/wiki/Ethan_Allen" title="Ethan Allen">Ethan Allen</a> and many of his 150 followers are captured at Longue Pointe, and are sent to England.</li> <li>1775 – October 18 – The Americans capture <a href="/wiki/Chambly,_Quebec" title="Chambly, Quebec">Chambly</a>.</li> <li>1775 – On November 9, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Richard Montgomery</a> crosses to <a href="/wiki/Pointe-Saint-Charles" title="Pointe-Saint-Charles">Pointe-Saint-Charles</a>, where he is greeted as a liberator.<sup id="cite_ref-SmithFourteen474_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SmithFourteen474-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1775 – Montreal falls without any significant fighting on November 13, as <a href="/wiki/Guy_Carleton,_1st_Baron_Dorchester" title="Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester">Carleton</a>, deciding that the city was indefensible (and having suffered significant militia desertion upon the news of the fall of St. Johns), withdraws.</li> <li>1775 – November 13 – The <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> invades Montreal and appropriates royal stores. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Richard Montgomery</a> is joined by <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a>.</li> <li>1775 – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Richard Montgomery</a> uses some of the captured boats to move towards Quebec City with about 300 troops on November 28, leaving about 200 in Montreal under the command of General <a href="/wiki/David_Wooster" title="David Wooster">David Wooster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shelton122_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shelton122-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1776 – April 29 – American colonists <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Chase" title="Samuel Chase">Samuel Chase</a> and the Jesuit <a href="/wiki/Charles_Carroll_(barrister)" title="Charles Carroll (barrister)">Charles Carroll</a> stay in <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_(Canadian_politician)" title="Thomas Walker (Canadian politician)">Thomas Walker</a>'s house in Montreal while trying to gain support from Montrealers against the British.</li> <li>1776 – May – With only 1,765 soldiers remaining in Montreal, the colonial force is overcome by the British.</li> <li>1776 – Within four hours, <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a> and the American forces garrisoned around Montreal abandon the city (but not before trying to burn it down), leaving it in the hands of the local militia. Carleton's fleet arrive in Montreal on June 17.<sup id="cite_ref-Stanley131_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stanley131-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1776 – May 18–27 – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars" title="Battle of the Cedars">Battle of the Cedars</a>.</li> <li>1777 – Opening of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_and_Portuguese_Synagogue_of_Montreal" title="Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal">Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal</a>.</li> <li>1778 – June 3 – The first issue of the <i><a href="/wiki/Gazette_Litt%C3%A9raire" class="mw-redirect" title="Gazette Littéraire">Gazette du Commerce et Littéraire pour la Ville et District de Montréal</a></i> (official organ of Académie de Montréal), the first newspaper in Montreal, is printed in the <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Ramezay" title="Château Ramezay">Château Ramezay</a> by <a href="/wiki/Fleury_Mesplet" title="Fleury Mesplet">Fleury Mesplet</a>, a former employee of <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>.</li> <li>1779 – On June 2, the publication of the <i><a href="/wiki/Gazette_Litt%C3%A9raire" class="mw-redirect" title="Gazette Littéraire">Gazette Littéraire</a></i> is stopped.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1780s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1790s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1780–1800"><span id="1780.E2.80.931800"></span>1780–1800</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1780–1800"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1783 – The <a href="/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company">North West Company</a> of Montreal is officially created.</li> <li>1783 – A lottery is started in Montreal to defray the cost of a new <a href="/wiki/Jail" class="mw-redirect" title="Jail">jail</a>.</li> <li>1783 – <a href="/wiki/Fleury_Mesplet" title="Fleury Mesplet">Fleury Mesplet</a> gets out of prison in September.</li> <li>1785 – <a href="/wiki/Fleury_Mesplet" title="Fleury Mesplet">Fleury Mesplet</a> founds the newspaper <i>The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Gazette">Montreal Gazette</a> / Gazette de Montréal</i> on August 28.</li> <li>1785 – In February, the Beaver Club is formed by members of the <a href="/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company">North West Company</a>.</li> <li>1785 – A dark day on October 10. Candles are lighted at noon.</li> <li>1785 – Maison Papineau (or Maison John-Campbell) is built at 440 Bonsecours Street. It will be modified in 1831 and 1965.</li> <li>1786 – <a href="/wiki/John_Molson" title="John Molson">John Molson</a> founds the <a href="/wiki/Molson_Brewery" title="Molson Brewery">Molson Brewery</a>.</li> <li>1786 – <a href="/wiki/Allen%27s_Company_of_Comedians" title="Allen's Company of Comedians">Allen's Company of Comedians</a> is the first professional theatre company to perform in the city.</li> <li>1787 – <a href="/wiki/William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="William IV of the United Kingdom">Prince William Henry</a>, later <a href="/wiki/William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="William IV of the United Kingdom">William IV</a>, arrives at Montreal on September 8.</li> <li>1787–1811 – John Reid is justice of the peace for the district of Montreal, which governs Montreal's affairs.</li> <li>1788 – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gazette_(Montreal)" title="The Gazette (Montreal)">The Gazette</a></i>, formerly a French journal, appears in English.</li> <li>1789 – <a href="/wiki/William_Grenville,_1st_Baron_Grenville" title="William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville">Lord Grenville</a> proposes that land in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a> be held in free and common soccage, and that the tenure of Lower Canadian lands be optional with the inhabitants.</li> <li>1789 – May 4 – The justices of the peace, who govern Montreal's affairs, order "the price and assize of bread, for this month" to be: "the white loaf of 4lbs. at 13d., or 30 sous", etc., and that bakers of the city and suburbs do conform thereto, and mark their bread with their initials.</li> <li>1789 – Christ Church opens for service on December 20.</li> <li>1791 – <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a> supports the proposed constitution for Canada, saying that "To attempt to amalgamate two populations, composed of races of men diverse in language, laws and habitudes, is complete absurdity. Let the proposed constitution be founded on man's nature, the only solid basis for an enduring government."</li> <li>1792 – December 20 – a fortnightly mail is established between Canada and the United States.</li> <li>1792 – Opening of the first post office in Montreal on 20 December.</li> <li>1793 – Importation of slaves into Canada is prohibited on July 9.</li> <li>1799 – Mary Griffin obtains the lease to <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> from a business associate of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_McCord" title="Thomas McCord">Thomas McCord</a>.</li> <li>1799 – The census of 1799 lists 9,000 inhabitants while that of 1761 lists 5,500.</li> <li>1799 – Citizens of Montreal petition to secure master's rights over slaves</li> <li>1799 – A measure respecting slavery in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada">Lower Canada</a> does not pass.</li> <li>1799 – Of twenty-one members of Council, in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada">Lower Canada</a>, six are <a href="/wiki/French_Canadians" title="French Canadians">French Canadians</a>.</li> <li>1799 – The Court House is completed.</li> <li>1799 – January 3 – Parliament appropriates $5,000 for a new <a href="/wiki/Palais_de_justice_de_Montr%C3%A9al" class="mw-redirect" title="Palais de justice de Montréal">Montreal Court House</a>.</li> <li>1800 – Alexander Skakel moves from <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a> to Montreal and establishes the Classical and Mathematical School. This was the principal educational institution for the English-speaking population.</li> <li>1800 – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_(Canadian_politician)" title="Thomas Walker (Canadian politician)">Thomas Walker</a> is elected to the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Lower_Canada" title="Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada">Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada</a> for Montreal County.</li> <li>1800 – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Porteous_(merchant)" title="Thomas Porteous (merchant)">Thomas Porteous (merchant)</a> purchases the seigneury of <a href="/wiki/Terrebonne,_Quebec" title="Terrebonne, Quebec">Terrebonne</a>.</li></ul> <p>1800- - Last Jesuit in Canada Dies leaving the Jesuit Estates to charities. 1800- Mr. Boue expelled from parliament because of dubious transactions in the Montreal wheat trade. 1800- Parliament votes to remove Montreal's Walls. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="19th_century">19th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="1800s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1810s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1801–1819"><span id="1801.E2.80.931819"></span>1801–1819</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 1801–1819"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1802 The first unofficial cavalry corps is formed in Montreal.</li> <li>1803–15 – With the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> comes a demand for large amounts of squared timber for shipbuilding. Montreal is able to fulfil the demand, and this expansion of the city's economic base is reflected in a rise in population to 26,154 by the year 1825.</li> <li>1804–17 – The demolition of Montreal's fortifications takes 13 years, from 1804 to 1817.</li> <li>1805 – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_McCord" title="Thomas McCord">Thomas McCord</a> returns to Montreal and recovers his land, which has been divided by Mary Griffin into streets and lots. The name Griffintown sticks.</li> <li>1805 – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Porteous_(merchant)" title="Thomas Porteous (merchant)">Thomas Porteous (merchant)</a> opens a store at <a href="/wiki/Sainte-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se,_Quebec" title="Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec">Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville</a>, where he also produces <a href="/wiki/Potash" title="Potash">potash</a>.</li> <li>1807 – May – The Canadian Courant and Montreal Advertiser are first issued; owner and editor: Nahum Mower.</li> <li>1807 – The brothers James and Charles Brown begin publishing the Canadian Gazette/Gazette canadienne in July.</li> <li>1807 – An Act provides for a new market house in Montreal.</li> <li>1808 – In early 1808, sick and in debt, Edward Edwards sells the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Gazette">Montreal Gazette</a> to the Browns, who the following month announce their plan to revive it.</li> <li>1808 – Importation of slaves is banned.</li> <li>1808 – July 12 – 5 privates of the 100th Regiment, Montreal, are charged with desertion and are transported as felons to <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> for 7 years, afterwards to serve as soldiers in that colony.</li> <li>1808-11 – A new prison is built.</li> <li>1809 – August 17 – The foundation of <a href="/wiki/Nelson%27s_Column,_Montreal" title="Nelson's Column, Montreal">Nelson's Column</a> is laid in Montreal. Installed on <a href="/wiki/Place_Jacques-Cartier" title="Place Jacques-Cartier">Place Jacques-Cartier</a>, this is the second monument to be erected in Montreal.</li> <li>1809 – November 3 – <a href="/wiki/John_Molson" title="John Molson">John Molson</a>'s steamboat <a href="/wiki/PS_Accommodation" title="PS Accommodation">PS Accommodation</a> sails from Montreal to Quebec. It is 85 feet over all, has a 6 horse-power engine, makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on the 6th. The <a href="/wiki/PS_Accommodation" title="PS Accommodation">PS Accommodation</a> is the second steamboat in America and probably in the world. The fare for an adult is £2.10s.od =$10.</li> <li>1810 – <a href="/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor" title="John Jacob Astor">John Jacob Astor</a> founds the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Fur_Company" title="Pacific Fur Company">Pacific Fur Company</a>. (His great-grandson, John Jacob Astor IV died on the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Titanic" class="mw-redirect" title="RMS Titanic">RMS Titanic</a>).</li> <li>1811 – Founding of the newspaper the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Herald">Montreal Herald</a> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Grey_(publisher)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Grey (publisher) (page does not exist)">William Grey</a> and Mungo Kay, founders, owners and publishers.</li> <li>1812 – June 18 – The United States declares war against Great Britain over territorial disputes in Canada (<a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>).</li> <li>1812 – July 11 – U.S. troops invade Canada.</li> <li>1814 – The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent" title="Treaty of Ghent">Treaty of Ghent</a> ends the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> between the United States and Britain.</li> <li>1815 - <a href="/wiki/John_Molson" title="John Molson">John Molson</a> builds the luxurious Mansion House Hotel on Rue St. Paul.</li> <li>1815 – March – Parliament votes $25,000 for <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a>.</li> <li>1816 – Population of Montreal is about 16,000.</li> <li>1816 – The National School is opened.</li> <li>1816 – May 14 – Thomas A. Turner and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Armour" title="Robert Armour">Robert Armour</a>, Esq., are appointed commissioners for the improvement of internal navigation between Montreal and Lachine, under the Provincial Act 48 George III, c. 19.</li> <li>1816-18 – <a href="/wiki/John_Coape_Sherbrooke" title="John Coape Sherbrooke">John Coape Sherbrooke</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Governor_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General">Governor General</a> of <a href="/wiki/British_North_America" title="British North America">British North America</a>; <a href="/wiki/Sherbrooke_Street" title="Sherbrooke Street">Sherbrooke Street</a> and the town of <a href="/wiki/Sherbrooke" title="Sherbrooke">Sherbrooke</a> later named after him.</li> <li>1817 – The <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Montreal" title="Bank of Montreal">Bank of Montreal</a> begins operations in June. Mary Griffin's husband, Robert, is the first clerk.</li> <li>1817 – <a href="/wiki/Guy_Street" title="Guy Street">Guy Street</a> is named on August 30 for <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Guy" title="Étienne Guy">Étienne Guy</a>, a notary who gave the city the land for the street.</li> <li>1818 – <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helen%27s_Island" title="Saint Helen's Island">Saint Helen's Island</a> was purchased by the British government. <a href="/wiki/Fort_de_l%27%C3%8Ele_Sainte-H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène">Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène</a> was built on the island as defences for the city, in consequence of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>.</li> <li>1819 – Darkness at noon on November 9.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (July 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1820s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1830s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1820–1839"><span id="1820.E2.80.931839"></span>1820–1839</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 1820–1839"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1821 – The <a href="/wiki/George_Ramsay,_9th_Earl_of_Dalhousie" title="George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie">Earl of Dalhousie</a> presents Dalhousie Square to Montreal</li> <li>1821 – March 31 – <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> established by Royal Charter.</li> <li>1821 – Beginning of <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> excavations on July 17.</li> <li>1821 – The British garrison starts the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Fort_de_l%27%C3%8Ele_Sainte-H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène">Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène</a>. It is completed in 1823 and partially rebuilt in 1863 after a fire as a preventive measure against an eventual American attack.</li> <li>1822 – The first iron bridge is erected on March 8.</li> <li>1822 – May 1 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_General_Hospital" title="Montreal General Hospital">Montreal General Hospital</a> building is completed.</li> <li>1822 – In September, a whale (42 feet 8 inches in length, 6 feet across the back, and 7 feet deep) finds its way up the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">Saint Lawrence River</a>.</li> <li>1824 – <a href="/wiki/Recollet" class="mw-redirect" title="Recollet">Recollet</a> Convent opens as a school for Irish children.</li> <li>1824 – First <a href="/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day" title="Saint Patrick's Day">Saint Patrick's Day</a> Parade organized on March 17.</li> <li>1824 – Construction on the new <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)</a> begins, designed by New York architect James O'Donnell, an Irish Protestant.</li> <li>1825 – The <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> is opened, and new industries spring up in the St. Antoine ward area as a direct outcome of the easier transport of goods. Shipping immediately increases and, along with the destruction of the city walls, Montreal comes to be an economic, rather than military, city. Gradually, the city's harbour facilities expand. In 1830 the <a href="/wiki/Wharves" class="mw-redirect" title="Wharves">wharves</a> are rudimentary and stretched for only a short distance along De la Commune Street.</li> <li>1825 – First permanent theatre building in Montreal, <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Theatre Royal, Montréal">Theatre Royal</a>, is built by <a href="/wiki/John_Molson" title="John Molson">John Molson</a> to attract bigger names to the city, which lacked such a venue. It costs the magnate $30,000. The building is demolished in 1844 and the site was used for the <a href="/wiki/Bonsecours_Market" title="Bonsecours Market">Bonsecours Market</a>. Another venue, also called Theatre Royal, was built not far away in <a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a>; this building, too, no longer exists.</li> <li>1826–37 and 1842–99 – <a href="/wiki/La_Minerve" title="La Minerve">La Minerve</a> published.</li> <li>1827 – Fleming <a href="/wiki/Windmill" title="Windmill">windmill</a> (13, avenue Strathyre) built.</li> <li>1829 – Most of <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)</a> is now completed. Work continues for more than a decade on the two bell towers. A new skyline begins to develop.</li> <li>1830 – The <a href="/wiki/Old_Port_of_Montreal" title="Old Port of Montreal">Montreal harbour</a> is officially incorporated.</li> <li>1831 – <a href="/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville" title="Alexis de Tocqueville">Alexis de Tocqueville</a> visits Montreal in August–September.</li> <li>1832 – Charter of incorporation for the city of Montreal (27,000 inhabitants).</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png/220px-Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png/330px-Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png/440px-Acte_pour_incorporer_la_Cite_de_Montreal.png 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="1056" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Acte pour incorporer la Cité de Montréal</div></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1832 – <a href="/wiki/Exchange_Coffee_House,_Montreal" title="Exchange Coffee House, Montreal">Exchange Coffee House</a> opens.</li> <li>1832 – Thousands of deaths by <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a> in Montreal.</li> <li>1832–34 – Sainte-Anne Market built.</li> <li>1833 – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Viger_(1787%E2%80%931858)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacques Viger (1787–1858)">Jacques Viger</a> becomes the first mayor, elected by city councillors.</li> <li>1833 – <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Montreal" title="Coat of arms of Montreal">Coat of arms of Montreal</a> adopted.</li> <li>1833 – February 6 – General fast to pray for the end of the cholera epidemic.</li> <li>1833 – August 18 – First <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_crossing" title="Transatlantic crossing">Trans-Atlantic</a> steamship <a href="/wiki/SS_Royal_William" title="SS Royal William">SS Royal William</a> steams from <a href="/wiki/Pictou,_Nova_Scotia" class="mw-redirect" title="Pictou, Nova Scotia">Pictou, Nova Scotia</a>.</li> <li>1834 – August 1 – <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada" title="Slavery in Canada">Slavery</a> comes to an end in all British territories, including British North America.</li> <li>1834 – Hundreds of deaths from <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a> in Montreal.</li> <li>1836 – The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Montreal" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal</a> is made distinct from the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Quebec" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec">diocese of Quebec</a> on May 13, 1836.</li> <li>1836 – Montreal is lighted by the Montreal Gas Light Co.</li> <li>1836 – On July 21, the first railway line in British North America, the <a href="/wiki/Champlain_and_St._Lawrence_Railroad" title="Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad">Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad</a> connects <a href="/wiki/La_Prairie,_Quebec" title="La Prairie, Quebec">La Prairie</a> with <a href="/wiki/Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu" title="Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu">Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu</a>.</li> <li>1836 – <a href="/wiki/Pied-du-Courant_Prison" title="Pied-du-Courant Prison">Pied-du-Courant Prison</a> opens.</li> <li>1837 – Britain refuses to grant more home rule in Canada, which leads to the <a href="/wiki/Rebellions_of_1837" class="mw-redirect" title="Rebellions of 1837">Rebellions of 1837</a>.</li> <li>1837 – On the November 6, a trifling skirmish between two political parties in the <a href="/wiki/Place_d%27Armes" title="Place d'Armes">Place d'Armes</a> begins the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada_Rebellion" title="Lower Canada Rebellion">Lower Canada Rebellion</a>.</li> <li>1838 – Coal gas street lighting is introduced.</li> <li>1838 – The <a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal_Custom_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Montreal Custom House">Old Montreal Custom House</a> is completed</li> <li>1838 – The "Lord Sydenham" steamboat runs the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Rapids" title="Lachine Rapids">Lachine Rapids</a>.</li> <li>1838 – Montreal rebel leader <a href="/wiki/Robert_Nelson_(insurrectionist)" title="Robert Nelson (insurrectionist)">Robert Nelson</a> reads a declaration of independence to a crowd at <a href="/wiki/Napierville,_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Napierville, Quebec">Napierville</a>.</li> <li>1838 – November 3 – Second rebellion in Canada.</li> <li>1838 – December 21 – Execution of the rebels <a href="/wiki/Joseph-Narcisse_Cardinal" title="Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal">Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Duquet" title="Joseph Duquet">Joseph Duquet</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Pied-du-Courant_Prison" title="Pied-du-Courant Prison">Pied-du-Courant Prison</a>.</li> <li>1839 – February 15 – <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Marie-Thomas_Chevalier_de_Lorimier" title="François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier">Chevalier DeLorimier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hindelang" title="Charles Hindelang">Charles Hindelang</a>, and others who joined the Rebellion are executed at <a href="/wiki/Pied-du-Courant_Prison" title="Pied-du-Courant Prison">Pied-du-Courant Prison</a>.</li> <li>1839 – September 26 – Canadian rebels are transported to <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1840s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1850s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1840–1859"><span id="1840.E2.80.931859"></span>1840–1859</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1840–1859"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1840 – The <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Union_1840" title="Act of Union 1840">Act of Union</a> combines <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada">Lower Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a>.</li> <li>1840 – August 19 – <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Rapids" title="Lachine Rapids">Lachine Rapids</a> first navigated in a steamboat.</li> <li>1841 – There are now at least 6,500 Irish Catholics in Montreal. Most of the immigrants to Montreal settle in <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>, particularly in the area west of <a href="/wiki/McGill_Street_(Montreal)" title="McGill Street (Montreal)">McGill Street (Montreal)</a>. In this district, the area between the Lachine Railroad and the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> becomes a slum. Much like the French slums of Hochelaga Maisonneuve to the east.</li> <li>1841 – West Bell Tower of <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)</a>, called "Perseverance" and housing the 10,900 kg bell "Le Gros Bourdon" / "Jean-Baptiste", completed.</li> <li>1842 – In May, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> appears at Theatre Royal, in Montreal, surrounded by local talent. While Dickens is in Montreal he produces, directs and acts in three plays.</li> <li>1843 – The Cornwall Canal and the <a href="/wiki/Chambly_Canal" title="Chambly Canal">Chambly Canal</a> are opened.</li> <li>1843 – Survey of the boundary between the U.S. and Canada is begun.</li> <li>1843 – <a href="/wiki/Service_de_police_de_la_Ville_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Service de police de la Ville de Montréal">Montreal Police Service</a> established on March 15.</li> <li>1843 – The first labour strike in Canada occurs. The <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> was widened in the 1840s under conditions of bitter conflict between contractors and Irish labourers.</li> <li>1843 – After completion of the East Bell Tower of <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)</a>, called "Temperance" and housing a ten-bell carillon, <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_Basilica_(Montreal)" title="Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)</a> is finally completed.</li> <li>1843 – Superior Joseph-Vincent Quiblier authorizes construction of <a href="/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Basilica,_Montreal" title="St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal">St. Patrick's Church</a> for the city's English-speaking Roman Catholics.</li> <li>1843 – Foundation of the religious congregation of the Sisters of Providence by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89milie_Gamelin" title="Émilie Gamelin">Émilie Gamelin</a>.</li> <li>1843 – Foundation of the religious congregation Saints-Noms-de-Jésus-et-de-Marie.</li> <li>1844 – Government moves from <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario" title="Kingston, Ontario">Kingston</a> to Montreal.</li> <li>1844 – The seat of the government of <a href="/wiki/Canada_East" title="Canada East">Canada East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canada_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Canada West">Canada West</a> is moved from <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario" title="Kingston, Ontario">Kingston</a> to Montréal.</li> <li>1844 – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89glise_Sainte-Genevi%C3%A8ve_(Montr%C3%A9al)" class="mw-redirect" title="Église Sainte-Geneviève (Montréal)">Église Sainte-Geneviève (Montréal)</a> completed.</li> <li>1845 – <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Hotel,_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottawa Hotel, Montreal">Ottawa Hotel, Montreal</a> built.</li> <li>1845 – <a href="/wiki/Morgan%27s" title="Morgan's">Morgan's</a> store opens.</li> <li>1846 – Foundation of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank, now known as the <a href="/wiki/Laurentian_Bank_of_Canada" title="Laurentian Bank of Canada">Laurentian Bank</a>.</li> <li>1847 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Telegraph_Company" title="Montreal Telegraph Company">Montreal Telegraph Company</a> founded. In 1850, the year prior to <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Allan" title="Hugh Allan">Hugh Allan</a>'s presidency, Montreal Telegraph Co operated merely 500 miles of line, all in the province of Canada.</li> <li>1847 – Telegraph service between Montréal and <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, between Montréal and <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a>, and between Montréal and New York City established.</li> <li>1847 – <a href="/wiki/Bonsecours_Market" title="Bonsecours Market">Bonsecours Market</a> opened. It housed City Hall between 1852 and 1878.</li> <li>1847 – The railway from Montreal to <a href="/wiki/Lachine,_Quebec" title="Lachine, Quebec">Lachine</a> is opened.</li> <li>1847 – Desbarats & Derbyshire (Georges-Édouard Desbarats and Stewart Derbyshire) start a glass factory at Vaudreuil.</li> <li>1847 – The first mass is celebrated in <a href="/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Basilica,_Montreal" title="St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal">St. Patrick's Basilica</a> on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.</li> <li>1847 – September 1 – <a href="/wiki/James_Bruce,_8th_Earl_of_Elgin" title="James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin">Lord Elgin</a> visits the <a href="/wiki/Fever_shed" class="mw-redirect" title="Fever shed">fever sheds</a> at <a href="/wiki/Windmill_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Windmill Point">Windmill Point</a>.</li> <li>1847 – October 23 – 65 immigrants die in a week at Windmill Point.</li> <li>1847 – November 1–9, 634 deaths of mostly Irish immigrants since January 1.</li> <li>1847 – November – Death of <a href="/wiki/John_Easton_Mills" title="John Easton Mills">John Easton Mills</a>, mayor of Montreal, as he tends the sick in the fever sheds</li> <li>1847–48 – In all, between 3,500 and 6,000 Irish immigrants die of the <a href="/wiki/Typhus_epidemic_of_1847" class="mw-redirect" title="Typhus epidemic of 1847">Typhus epidemic of 1847</a> at Windmill Point.</li> <li>1848 – January 2 – Wellington and Commissioners streets flooded.</li> <li>1848 – July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.</li> <li>1848 – Foundation of the religious congregation of Sisters of Mercy.</li> <li>1849 – <a href="/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buildings_in_Montreal" title="Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal">Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal</a>.</li> <li>1849 – <a href="/wiki/Beauharnois_Canal" title="Beauharnois Canal">Beauharnois Canal</a> is opened.</li> <li>1849 – April 25 – For sanctioning the <a href="/wiki/Rebellion_Losses_Bill" title="Rebellion Losses Bill">Rebellion Losses Bill</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Bruce,_8th_Earl_of_Elgin" title="James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin">Lord Elgin</a> is mobbed and the Parliament House in Montreal is burned. Parliament will now sit alternately in Quebec and Toronto.</li> <li>1850 – <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Montreal" title="Anglican Diocese of Montreal">Anglican Diocese of Montreal</a> established.</li> <li>1850 – Opening of the Ann Street School.</li> <li>1850 – Beginning of the dredging of the St. Lawrence to allow seagoing ships to reach to Montreal.</li> <li>1851 – <a href="/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway" title="Grand Trunk Railway">Grand Trunk Railway</a> Company formed.</li> <li>1851 – November 19 – First <a href="/wiki/YMCA" title="YMCA">YMCA</a> on the continent opened in Montreal.</li> <li>1851–53 – Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre de Montréal built.</li> <li>1852 – <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Laval" title="Université Laval">Laval University</a> is opened.</li> <li>1852 – July 8 – Beginning of <a href="/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1852" title="Great Fire of 1852">Great Fire of 1852</a>, which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal; 20% of the eastern side of the city is devastated.</li> <li>1853 – The first screw steamer up the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">Saint Lawrence River</a> arrives from <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>. Canadian Steam Navigation Company runs regular services from <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> to <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a> and Montreal, twice a month in summer and once a month in winter.</li> <li>1853 – May 23 – First charter for steamers from Montreal to Great Britain.</li> <li>1853 – June 9 – <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Gavazzi" title="Alessandro Gavazzi">Alessandro Gavazzi</a>'s anticlerical speeches at Montreal's First Congregational Church (Zion Church) spark riots that kill 40 people.</li> <li>1853 – June 18 – The <a href="/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway" title="Grand Trunk Railway">Grand Trunk Railway</a> opens to <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a>. <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a> becomes the primary ice-free winter seaport for Canadian exports.</li> <li>1853 – July 22 – Pier No.1 of the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a> is begun.</li> <li>1853 – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce built.</li> <li>1854 – <a href="/wiki/Villa_Maria_(school)" title="Villa Maria (school)">Villa Maria</a> founded.</li> <li>1854 – July – Six Nations Indians offer to fight the Queen's enemies anywhere</li> <li>1854 – July 20 – The first stone of the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a> across the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">St. Lawrence</a> is laid.</li> <li>1854 – August 2 – First coffer-dam of <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a> ready for masonry.</li> <li>1854 – October 16 – Twenty-one vessels in port at Montreal.</li> <li>1854 – St. Ann's Church is consecrated, becoming the centre of <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> life; it opens on December 8 (<a href="/wiki/Feast_of_the_Immaculate_Conception" title="Feast of the Immaculate Conception">Feast of the Immaculate Conception</a>) and was designed by <a href="/wiki/John_Ostell" title="John Ostell">John Ostell</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Sulpicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulpicians">Sulpicians</a> donated the land for the church and provided the Irish-born pastors: Father Michael O'Brien, Father Michael O'Farrell and Father James Hogan (priest 1867–1884). Some residents of Griffintown claim that St. Ann's ("down the hill") was actually more of a center for the Irish in Montreal than <a href="/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Basilica,_Montreal" title="St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal">St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal</a>'s ("up the hill") was, since most of the city's Irish lived in <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>. It will be demolished in 1970.</li> <li>1854 – <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">Cholera</a> kills more than 1,000 citizens.</li> <li>1854 – <a href="/wiki/Canada_Steamship_Lines_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Canada Steamship Lines Inc.">Canada Steamship Lines Inc.</a> established.</li> <li>1855 – The <a href="/wiki/Redpath_Sugar" title="Redpath Sugar">Redpath Sugar</a> Refinery opens.</li> <li>1855 – <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Allan" title="Hugh Allan">Hugh Allan</a> and Andrew Allan establish the <a href="/wiki/Allan_Line_Royal_Mail_Steamers" class="mw-redirect" title="Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers">Montreal Ocean Steamship Company</a>, with four steamships fortnightly.</li> <li>1855 – October 19 – <a href="/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway" title="Grand Trunk Railway">G.T. Railway</a> is open to <a href="/wiki/Brockville" title="Brockville">Brockville</a>.</li> <li>1856 – Montreal's Water Works made ready for use</li> <li>1856 – The <a href="/wiki/Allan_Line" title="Allan Line">Allan</a>'s four steamships, between Montreal and <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> bring 3,031 passengers, Westward (average voyage 13 days).</li> <li>1856 – September 16 – Balloon ascension from <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>, in the "Canada"</li> <li>1856 – The <a href="/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway" title="Grand Trunk Railway">Grand Trunk Railway</a> begins through passenger service between Montreal and Toronto on October 27 with great celebrations being held in <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario" title="Kingston, Ontario">Kingston</a> to celebrate this accomplishment.</li> <li>1856 – December 10 – Burning of <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church_Cathedral_(Montreal)" title="Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal)">Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal)</a>.</li> <li>1857 – June 13–26 ocean steamships at Montreal today</li> <li>1857 – June 26 – Fire on board the steamer "Montreal" en route from Quebec to Montreal – 253 lives lost, including <a href="/wiki/Stephen_C._Phillips" title="Stephen C. Phillips">Stephen C. Phillips</a>.</li> <li>1857 – September 7 – 500 of the 39th Regiment leave Montreal, possibly for the <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>.</li> <li>1857 – Saint-Enfant-Jésus du Mile-End Church completed.</li> <li>1857 – The lower part of <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> entirely submerged by river flooding.</li> <li>1857–2000 – <a href="/wiki/Seagram" title="Seagram">Seagram</a> opens. The former Seagram headquarters in Montreal now belongs to <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> under the name <a href="/wiki/Martlet_House" title="Martlet House">Martlet House</a>.</li> <li>1858 – Formation of <a href="/wiki/The_Royal_Canadian_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Royal Canadian Regiment">the Royal Canadian Regiment</a>.</li> <li>1858 – January 27 – The Queen names Ottawa the seat of government</li> <li>1858 – February 20 – In <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>, beds stand in three feet of water</li> <li>1858 – Riots and street fights run rampant through <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> on election day when <a href="/wiki/D%27Arcy_McGee" class="mw-redirect" title="D'Arcy McGee">D'Arcy McGee</a> is chosen to represent the Montreal West riding, including Griffintown, in the federal government.</li> <li>1859 – Mgr <a href="/wiki/Ignace_Bourget" title="Ignace Bourget">Ignace Bourget</a> condemns the <a href="/wiki/Institut_canadien_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Institut canadien de Montréal">Institut canadien de Montréal</a>, excommunicating its members, and on July 7, 1869, Rome adds the institute's <i>Annuaire</i> for the year 1868 to the Catholic Church's <a href="/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" title="Index Librorum Prohibitorum">Index of prohibited books</a>.</li> <li>1859 – December 12 – The <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a> opens.</li> <li>1859 – December 17 – The first passenger train passes through the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a>.</li> <li>1859 – The Black Rock is erected by canal workers on Bridge St. to honour the Windmill Point victims of cholera.</li> <li>1859 – Foundation of the <a href="/wiki/National_Bank_of_Canada" title="National Bank of Canada">National Bank of Canada</a>.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1860s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1870s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1860–1879"><span id="1860.E2.80.931879"></span>1860–1879</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1860–1879"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1860 – <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Square,_Montreal" title="Victoria Square, Montreal">Victoria Square, Montreal</a> opens.</li> <li>1860 – February 20 – The wreck of the <a href="/wiki/Allan_Line" title="Allan Line">Allan Line</a> steamship <a href="/wiki/SS_Hungarian" title="SS Hungarian">SS Hungarian</a> with a number of Montrealers on board.</li> <li>1860 – May – <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_(Montreal)" title="Crystal Palace (Montreal)">Crystal Palace</a> built for the Montreal Industrial Exhibition of 1860.</li> <li>1860 – August 25 – The <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII" title="Edward VII">Prince of Wales</a> visits Montreal.</li> <li>1860 – August 25 – Opening of the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Railway Bridge</a>.</li> <li>1860 – November 27 – Opening of the <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church_Cathedral_(Montreal)" title="Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal)">Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal)</a>.</li> <li>1861 – The street <a href="/wiki/Horsecar" title="Horsecar">horsecar</a> is introduced as public transportation on 27 November. It was operated by Montreal City Passenger Railway Company 1861–1886.</li> <li>1861 – <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> again flooded.</li> <li>1861 – January – British troops ordered to Canada.</li> <li>1861 – January 18 – A meeting in Montreal, respecting extradition of <a href="/wiki/John_Anderson_(escaped_slave)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Anderson (escaped slave)">John Anderson</a>, a slave charged with murder, is addressed by Hon. Messrs.</li> <li>1861 – February – <a href="/wiki/John_Anderson_(escaped_slave)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Anderson (escaped slave)">John Anderson</a> not to be surrendered without instructions from England.</li> <li>1861 – April 15 – Great inundation at Montreal.</li> <li>1861 – June 13 – <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Duke_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha">Prince Alfred</a> visits Montreal.</li> <li>1861 – June 6 – Formation of the Canada Presbyterian Church by fusion of the Free Church and the United Presbyterian body.</li> <li>1861 – December – Six <a href="/wiki/Steamboat" title="Steamboat">steamers</a> chartered to bring troops to Canada.</li> <li>1861 – <a href="/wiki/St._John_the_Evangelist_Anglican_Church_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church (Montreal)">St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church (Montreal)</a> founded.</li> <li>1862 – The Montreal Corn Exchange Association is organized.</li> <li>1862 – Montreal Sailor's Institute founded.</li> <li>1862 – Ocean steamers trading to Montreal have increased from 5,545 tons in 1854, to 62,912; other ocean vessels from 58,416 to 195,348 tons.</li> <li>1862 – January – Military companies are organizing throughout Canada.</li> <li>1862 – January 4 – <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a> is guarded to prevent its destruction, threatened from the USA.</li> <li>1862 – April 2 – By-law to establish a <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Fire_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Fire Department">Montreal Fire Department</a>.</li> <li>1862 – May 20 – The Montreal Water Works are commenced.</li> <li>1863 – Bounties for USA recruits and substitutes often reach $2,000, inducing kidnapping and contraventions of the British Foreign Enlistment Act, for which heavy bail is exacted.</li> <li>1863 – <a href="/wiki/Service_de_s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9_incendie_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal">Fire Alarm</a> established on January 19.</li> <li>1863 – May 12 – Protestant House of Refuge in Montreal incorporated.</li> <li>1863 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts" title="Montreal Museum of Fine Arts">Art Association of Montreal</a> incorporated.</li> <li>1864 – The Montreal City Passenger Railway Company has 10 miles of track, $240,000 paid capital and carries 1,485,725 passengers at 5 cents each.</li> <li>1864 – In October, delegates from across British North America developed the terms for Confederation at a three-week conference in <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Quebec_Conference,_1864" title="Quebec Conference, 1864">Quebec Conference</a>, there remained the task of selling Confederation to the citizens.</li> <li>1864 – November 10 – Continued examination of raiders at Montreal.</li> <li>1865 – The Parliament of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada">Lower Canada</a> favors Confederation.</li> <li>1865 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Board_of_Trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Board of Trade">Montreal Board of Trade</a> Building erected in 1855 is burned.</li> <li>1865 – July 11–14 – Convention at Detroit to promote a new Reciprocity treaty. Montrealers attend, but only to give desired information. The Convention passes resolutions favouring a new Reciprocity treaty.</li> <li>1865 – December 3 – <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Ges%C3%B9_(Montreal)" title="Church of the Gesù (Montreal)">Church of the Gesu</a> opened. It was built and designed by Irish architect <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Keely" title="Patrick Keely">Patrick Keely</a>.</li> <li>1866 – <a href="/wiki/Molson_Bank_Building,_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Molson Bank Building, Montreal">Molson Bank Building, Montreal</a> built.</li> <li>1866 – The Montreal Glass Co., at Hudson, makes chimneys, bottles and insulators.</li> <li>1866 – March 13 – The Prince of Wales Regiment and Battery of Artillery leave Montreal to repel <a href="/wiki/Fenian" title="Fenian">Fenian</a> invaders.</li> <li>1866 – March 17 – The <a href="/wiki/Canadian%E2%80%93American_Reciprocity_Treaty" title="Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty">Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty</a> terminates</li> <li>1866 – July 18 – The 47th Regiment reaches Montreal from <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario" title="Kingston, Ontario">Kingston</a>.</li> <li>1866 – First successful <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" title="Transatlantic telegraph cable">transatlantic telegraph cable</a> is laid.</li> <li>1867 – <a href="/wiki/Canada_East" title="Canada East">Canada East</a> becomes the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Quebec">Province of Quebec</a>.</li> <li>1867 – March – Cornerstone of St. Patrick's Hall, Montreal, laid</li> <li>1867 – July 1 – The Dominion of Canada is formed by the confederation of several provinces.</li> <li>1868 – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_D%27Arcy_McGee" title="Thomas D'Arcy McGee">Thomas D'Arcy McGee</a> is <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassinated</a> by pistol shot in April. He is given a state funeral in <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> and interred in the <a href="/wiki/Cimeti%C3%A8re_Notre-Dame-des-Neiges" class="mw-redirect" title="Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges">Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges</a>. <a href="/wiki/Patrick_J._Whelan" title="Patrick J. Whelan">Patrick J. Whelan</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Fenian" title="Fenian">Fenian</a> sympathizer, is accused, tried, convicted, and <a href="/wiki/Hanging" title="Hanging">hanged</a> for the crime.</li> <li>1869 – <a href="/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad" title="First transcontinental railroad">First transcontinental railroad</a> completed on May 10.</li> <li>1869 – <a href="/wiki/Red_River_Rebellion" title="Red River Rebellion">Red River Rebellion</a>.</li> <li>1869 – <a href="/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_Notre-Dame_du_Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur" title="Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur">Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur</a> established.</li> <li>1869 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Star" title="Montreal Star">Montreal Star</a> founded.</li> <li>1870 – Second <a href="/wiki/Fenian" title="Fenian">Fenian</a> Raid</li> <li>1872 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Exchange" title="Montreal Exchange">Montreal Exchange</a> created.</li> <li>1872 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Royals" title="Montreal Royals">Montreal Royals</a> founded.</li> <li>1872–78 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_City_Hall" title="Montreal City Hall">Montreal City Hall</a> is built.</li> <li>1872 – November 21, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Dufferin" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Dufferin">Lord Dufferin</a>, the Governor-General, formally presents the statue of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Square,_Montreal" title="Victoria Square, Montreal">Victoria Square</a> to the city.</li> <li>1873–82 – Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes de Montréal built.</li> <li>1874 – <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helen%27s_Island" title="Saint Helen's Island">Saint Helen's Island</a> becomes a fashionable park.</li> <li>1874 – Shaughnessy House built for <a href="/wiki/Duncan_McIntyre_(businessman)" title="Duncan McIntyre (businessman)">Duncan McIntyre</a> by architect William T. Thomas. McIntyre sells it to <a href="/wiki/William_Van_Horne" class="mw-redirect" title="William Van Horne">William Van Horne</a> who in turn sells it to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Shaughnessy" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Shaughnessy">Thomas Shaughnessy</a>. The house is declared a national historic site in 1974 and is now part of the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Centre_for_Architecture" title="Canadian Centre for Architecture">Canadian Centre for Architecture</a>.</li> <li>1875 – September 2 – The <a href="/wiki/Guibord_case" title="Guibord case">Guibord case</a> occasions some ill feeling in Montreal, but by the energetic action of Dr. <a href="/wiki/William_Hales_Hingston" title="William Hales Hingston">William Hales Hingston</a>, the Mayor, there are no riots.</li> <li>1875 – Hockey, in the form known today, is first played in Montreal in 1875, according to rules devised by <a href="/wiki/James_George_Aylwin_Creighton" class="mw-redirect" title="James George Aylwin Creighton">James George Aylwin Creighton</a>, a <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> student.</li> <li>1875 – June 15 – Formation of the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_Canada" title="Presbyterian Church in Canada">Presbyterian Church in Canada</a>.</li> <li>1875 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Academy_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Academy of Music">Montreal Academy of Music</a> inaugurated.</li> <li>1875 – Montreal and New York City are now linked by train.</li> <li>1876 – <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Square" title="Dorchester Square">Dorchester Square</a> opened.</li> <li>1876 – <a href="/wiki/Place_du_Canada" title="Place du Canada">Place du Canada</a> opened.</li> <li>1876 – Inauguration of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a> Park on May 24.</li> <li>1877 – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_George_Roddick" title="Thomas George Roddick">Thomas George Roddick</a> introduces <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lister" title="Joseph Lister">Lister</a>'s antiseptic methods to the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_General_Hospital" title="Montreal General Hospital">Montreal General Hospital</a>.</li> <li>1877 – The first telephone conversation in Quebec.</li> <li>1878 – <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Université de Montréal">Université de Montréal</a> is established.</li> <li>1878 – <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Hotel_(Montreal)" title="Windsor Hotel (Montreal)">Windsor Hotel</a> completed.</li> <li>1876 – <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a> Park opened.</li> <li>1879 – Mary Gallagher is murdered by jealous rival Susan Kennedy on June 27. It is a sensational story. It's said Gallagher's ghost returns every seven years to haunt Griffintown.</li> <li>1879 – In a strange turn of events, Michael Flanagan, cleared of all charges regarding the death of Mary Gallagher, is loading barges in the Wellington Basin when he falls and drowns on December 5, the very same day Susan Kennedy was supposed to be hanged.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1880s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1890s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1880–1900"><span id="1880.E2.80.931900"></span>1880–1900</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1880–1900"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1881 – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> visits in November, remarks that "this is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn't throw a brick without breaking a church window."</li> <li>1882 – <a href="/wiki/Redpath_Museum" title="Redpath Museum">Redpath Museum</a> established.</li> <li>1882 – Opening of the Montreal-<a href="/wiki/Sorel-Tracy,_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorel-Tracy, Quebec">Sorel</a> railway.</li> <li>1882 – Montreal has its first electric lighting.</li> <li>1883 – First winter carnival in Montreal.</li> <li>1883–1985 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Locomotive_Works" title="Montreal Locomotive Works">Montreal Locomotive Works</a> opens.</li> <li>1883–84 – Dalhousie train station is built.</li> <li>1884–1933 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Hockey_Club" title="Montreal Hockey Club">Montreal Hockey Club</a> established.</li> <li>1884 – First issue of the newspaper <a href="/wiki/La_Presse_(Canadian_newspaper)" title="La Presse (Canadian newspaper)">La Presse</a>.</li> <li>1884–1920 – Mount Royal Funicular Railway brings sightseers to the top of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a>.</li> <li>1885 – <a href="/wiki/Last_Spike_(Canadian_Pacific_Railway)" class="mw-redirect" title="Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway)">Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway)</a> on November 7.</li> <li>1885 – <a href="/wiki/The_Fraser-Hickson_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="The Fraser-Hickson Library">The Fraser-Hickson Library</a> opened.</li> <li>1885 – Saint-Joachim de Pointe-Claire completed.</li> <li>1885 – A <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> epidemic in February kills 3,164 Montrealers (out of over 150,000 inhabitants).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1885–86 – Massive flooding and fires recorded in <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>.</li> <li>1886 – First <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway" title="Canadian Pacific Railway">Trans Canada</a> train departure on June 28.</li> <li>1886 – On July 4, the first scheduled <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway" title="Canadian Pacific Railway">Canadian Pacific Railway</a> transcontinental passenger train reaches <a href="/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a>, after travelling for five days, 19 hours.</li> <li>1886 – Worst flooding recorded – also two major fires.</li> <li>1886 – <a href="/wiki/Dominion_Bridge_Company" title="Dominion Bridge Company">Dominion Bridge Company</a> founded.</li> <li>1887–1889 – <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Station_(Montreal)" title="Windsor Station (Montreal)">Windsor Station (Montreal)</a> built.</li> <li>1888 – <a href="/wiki/Lafontaine_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Lafontaine Park">Lafontaine Park</a> created.</li> <li>1888 – Mont-Saint-Louis College is founded.</li> <li>1889 – <a href="/wiki/Saint_James_United_Church_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint James United Church (Montreal)">Saint James United Church (Montreal)</a> built in June.</li> <li>1890 – Sanctuaire du Saint-Sacrement built.</li> <li>1891–94 – <a href="/wiki/Monument-National" title="Monument-National">Monument-National</a> built.</li> <li>1892 – April 3 – <a href="/wiki/Bonsecours_Market" title="Bonsecours Market">Bonsecours Market</a> sustains its fourth serious fire. The uninsured loss is $20,000.</li> <li>1892 – The era of public transportation in Montreal begins with the inauguration of the electric tram. The trams constitute a practical way to get from one end of the city to the other, especially for workers.</li> <li>1893 – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Victoria_Hospital,_Montreal" title="Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal">Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal</a> established.</li> <li>1893 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Hockey_Club" title="Montreal Hockey Club">Montreal Hockey Club</a> is the first hockey team to win the newly donated <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a>.</li> <li>1893 – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Cartier_Monument_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacques Cartier Monument (Montreal)">Jacques Cartier Monument</a> unveiled.</li> <li>1894 – <a href="/wiki/Pioneers_Monument_Obelisk_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pioneers Monument Obelisk (Montreal)">Pioneers Monument Obelisk (Montreal)</a> unveiled on May 17.</li> <li>1894 – <a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_the_World_Cathedral" title="Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral">Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral</a> consecrated.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg/220px-Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="435" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg/330px-Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg/440px-Monument_Maisonneuve.jpg 2x" data-file-width="652" data-file-height="1290" /></a><figcaption>Monument Maisonneuve</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1895 – The monument in memory of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Chomedey_de_Maisonneuve" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve">Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve</a>, by artist <a href="/wiki/Louis-Philippe_H%C3%A9bert" title="Louis-Philippe Hébert">Louis-Philippe Hébert</a>, was unveiled on July 1 on <a href="/wiki/Place_d%27Armes" title="Place d'Armes">Place d'Armes</a>.</li> <li>1896 – Motion pictures are first shown in Canada for the first time at the Palace Theatre at 972 St. Lawrence, corner Viger, on June 27.</li> <li>1897 – <a href="/wiki/Lion_of_Belfort_(Montreal)" title="Lion of Belfort (Montreal)"><i>Lion of Belfort</i> (Montreal)</a> unveiled on May 24.</li> <li>1897 – A survey of living conditions is conducted by Mr. <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Brown_Ames" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Brown Ames">Herbert Brown Ames</a>. He points out the discrepancy in living conditions between wealthy areas of Montreal ('the upper city') and the areas inhabited by the working class ('the city below the hill'): "The sanitary accommodation of 'the city below the hill' is a disgrace to any nineteenth century city on this or any other continent. I presume there is hardly a house in all the upper city without modern plumbing, and yet in the lower city not less than half the homes have indoor water-closet privileges. In <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> only one home in four is suitably equipped, beyond the canal (in <a href="/wiki/Pointe-Saint-Charles" title="Pointe-Saint-Charles">Pointe-Saint-Charles</a>) it is but little better. Our city by-law prohibits the erection of further out-door closets, but it contains no provision for eradicating those already in use."</li> <li>1897 – <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Car_and_Foundry" title="Canadian Car and Foundry">Canadian Car and Foundry</a>'s history goes back to 1897, but the main company is established in 1909 from an amalgamation of several companies and later becomes part of <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Canada" title="Hawker Siddeley Canada">Hawker Siddeley Canada</a> through the purchase of <a href="/wiki/Avro_Canada" title="Avro Canada">Avro Canada</a> in the late 1950s.</li> <li>1898 – <a href="/wiki/Place_Viger" title="Place Viger">Place Viger</a> constructed.</li> <li>1898 – <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4pital_du_Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal">Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal</a> founded on June 1.</li> <li>1898–1903 – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church built.</li> <li>1899 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Shamrocks" title="Montreal Shamrocks">Montreal Shamrocks</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a>.</li> <li>1899 – Incorporation of <a href="/wiki/Loyola_College_(Montreal)" title="Loyola College (Montreal)">Loyola College</a> on March 10.</li> <li>1899 – October 30 – The First Canadian Contingent of the <a href="/wiki/Boer_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Boer War">Boer War</a> sets sail to South Africa on the SS Sardinian of the <a href="/wiki/Allan_Line" title="Allan Line">Allan Line</a>, bearing Canada's initial quota of fighting men, including the men of "E Company" of Montreal.</li> <li>1899 – In the afternoon of November 21, Montrealers see their first car. At the wheel of this first steam-powered automobile is Ucal-Henri Dandurand, accompanied by Mayor <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Pr%C3%A9fontaine" title="Raymond Préfontaine">Raymond Préfontaine</a>. They descend steep <a href="/w/index.php?title=Beaver_Hall_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beaver Hall Hill (page does not exist)">Côte du Beaver Hall</a> without difficulty and climb back up through the streets in the same fashion.</li> <li>1899 – Construction of a dam in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Port_of_Montreal" title="Old Port of Montreal">Old Port of Montreal</a>: there will be no more flooding.</li> <li>1900 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Shamrocks" title="Montreal Shamrocks">Montreal Shamrocks</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="20th_century">20th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="1900s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1910s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1901–1919"><span id="1901.E2.80.931919"></span>1901–1919</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 1901–1919"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1901 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Light,_Heat_%26_Power" title="Montreal Light, Heat & Power">Montreal Light, Heat & Power</a> established.</li> <li>1901 – The city counted 1033 men and 4 women in the Chinese community. Clustered together along <a href="/wiki/Saint_Laurent_Boulevard" title="Saint Laurent Boulevard">Saint Laurent Boulevard</a> and <a href="/wiki/De_la_Gaucheti%C3%A8re_Street" title="De la Gauchetière Street">De la Gauchetière Street</a>, various Chinese establishments also serve as living quarters for the first Chinese Montrealers and, from the end of the 19th century onwards, constitute a distinctive neighbourhood: <a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Montreal" title="Chinatown, Montreal">Chinatown</a>.</li> <li>1901–1903 – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89glise_Saint-L%C3%A9on_de_Westmount" class="mw-redirect" title="Église Saint-Léon de Westmount">Église Saint-Léon de Westmount</a> built.</li> <li>1903 – Monument to <a href="/wiki/Ignace_Bourget" title="Ignace Bourget">Ignace Bourget</a> is unveiled in front of <a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_the_World_Cathedral" title="Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral">Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral</a> on June 24. Sculptor <a href="/wiki/Louis-Philippe_H%C3%A9bert" title="Louis-Philippe Hébert">Louis-Philippe Hébert</a>.</li> <li>1903 – General strike by the tram employees of Montreal on February 6.</li> <li>1904 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Children%27s_Hospital" title="Montreal Children's Hospital">Montreal Children's Hospital</a> founded.</li> <li>1904 – During the <a href="/wiki/1904_Canadian_federal_election" title="1904 Canadian federal election">federal election</a>, <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9o-Ernest_Ouimet" title="Léo-Ernest Ouimet">Léo-Ernest Ouimet</a> uses his <a href="/wiki/Kinetoscope" title="Kinetoscope">kinetoscope</a> to project election results on to the front wall of the newspaper <a href="/wiki/La_Patrie_(Canadian_newspaper)" title="La Patrie (Canadian newspaper)">La Patrie</a>.</li> <li>1906 – Opening of the first cinema in Montreal. The <a href="/wiki/Ouimetoscope" title="Ouimetoscope">Ouimetoscope</a> is inaugurated on January 1.</li> <li>1906 – <a href="/wiki/Dominion_Park" title="Dominion Park">Dominion Park</a> opens.</li> <li>1906 – First demonstration of a <a href="/wiki/Zeppelin" title="Zeppelin">zeppelin</a> in Montreal.</li> <li>1906 – <a href="/wiki/Dominion_Car_and_Foundry" title="Dominion Car and Foundry">Dominion Car and Foundry</a> incorporated.</li> <li>1907 – <a href="/wiki/Boer_War_Memorial_(Montreal)" title="Boer War Memorial (Montreal)">Boer War Memorial</a> unveiled on May 24.</li> <li>1907 – Inauguration of <a href="/wiki/Hippodrome_de_Montr%C3%A9al" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippodrome de Montréal">Blue Bonnets Horse Race</a> track on June 14.</li> <li>1907 – <a href="/wiki/Centre_hospitalier_universitaire_Sainte-Justine" title="Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine">Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine</a> founded.</li> <li>1907 – Canadian Express built.</li> <li>1909 – March 17 - Runaway train crashes into <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Station_(Montreal)" title="Windsor Station (Montreal)">Windsor Station (Montreal)</a>.</li> <li>1909 – December 4 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Canadiens" title="Montreal Canadiens">Montreal Canadiens</a> are founded</li> <li>1909 – <a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Arena" title="Jubilee Arena">Jubilee Arena</a> opens.</li> <li>1909 – <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Mance_Monument" title="Jeanne Mance Monument">Jeanne Mance Monument</a> unveiled on September 2.</li> <li>1909 – <a href="/wiki/Canada_Car_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Canada Car Company">Canada Car Company</a> merges with several other companies to form <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Car_and_Foundry" title="Canadian Car and Foundry">Canadian Car and Foundry</a>.</li> <li>1909–56 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_and_Southern_Counties_Railway" title="Montreal and Southern Counties Railway">Montreal and Southern Counties Railway</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Interurban" title="Interurban">interurban</a> <a href="/wiki/Streetcar" class="mw-redirect" title="Streetcar">streetcar</a> line that ran between Montréal and <a href="/wiki/Granby,_Quebec" title="Granby, Quebec">Granby</a>.</li> <li>1910 – Great <a href="/wiki/Eucharistic_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Eucharistic Congress">Eucharistic Congress</a> in Montreal on September 6.</li> <li>1911 – Église Saint-Viateur d'Outremont built.</li> <li>1912 – April 15 – The sinking of the steamship Titanic with a number of Montrealers on board.</li> <li>1912 – September 3 – Jack Haney on "The first Trans-Canada Auto trip" (Halifax: August 27, 1912, to Victoria: October 17, 1912) arrives in Montreal.</li> <li>1912 – December 31 – <a href="/wiki/Ritz-Carlton_Montreal" title="Ritz-Carlton Montreal">Ritz-Carlton Montreal</a> opens.</li> <li>1912 – <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helen%27s_Island" title="Saint Helen's Island">Saint Helen's Island</a> Lighthouse built. It is located below the <a href="/wiki/Fort_de_l%27%C3%8Ele_Sainte-H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène">Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène</a> at the west side of the island in <a href="/wiki/Old_Port_of_Montreal" title="Old Port of Montreal">Montreal harbor</a>.</li> <li>1912–14 – Maisonneuve Market is built. This Beaux-Arts building is the crowning achievement of architect Marius Dufresne.</li> <li>1913 – Establishment of a permanent <a href="/wiki/Yiddish_theatre" title="Yiddish theatre">Yiddish theatre</a> troupe in Montreal.</li> <li>1914 – May 29 – The sinking of the steamship <a href="/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland" title="RMS Empress of Ireland">RMS Empress of Ireland</a> with a number of Montrealers on board.</li> <li>1914 – <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Public_Library_(Montreal)" title="Jewish Public Library (Montreal)">Jewish Public Library (Montreal)</a> founded.</li> <li>1914 – The <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII_Monument_(Montreal)" title="Edward VII Monument (Montreal)">Edward VII Monument</a> is unveiled in Phillips Square on October 1.</li> <li>1914 – Foundation of the Catholic Working Federation of Montreal.</li> <li>1915 – May 7 – The sinking of the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Lusitania" title="RMS Lusitania">RMS Lusitania</a> with a number of Montrealers on board.</li> <li>1915 – Inauguration of new custom house at 105 <a href="/wiki/McGill_Street_(Montreal)" title="McGill Street (Montreal)">McGill Street (Montreal)</a>.</li> <li>1916 – March 1 – Fire burns the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway" title="Grand Trunk Railway">Grand Trunk Railway</a> Station.</li> <li>1917 – <a href="/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917" title="Conscription Crisis of 1917">Conscription Crisis of 1917</a>: riots break out in the streets of Montréal.</li> <li>1918 – Province of <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a> puts Montreal under its direct control.</li> <li>1918 – The Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau is established.</li> <li>1918 – <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_Tunnel" title="Mount Royal Tunnel">Mount Royal Tunnel</a> completed. First train under the mountain on October 21; it transports soldiers leaving for <a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a> in Russia.</li> <li>1918 – <a href="/wiki/Canadian_National_Railway" title="Canadian National Railway">Canadian National Railway</a> created.</li> <li>1919 – <a href="/wiki/XWA_(radio)" class="mw-redirect" title="XWA (radio)">CINW</a> (originally XWA) Montreal is the first radio station to broadcast regular programming, on December 1.</li> <li>1919 – Montreal Bagel Bakery on <a href="/wiki/Saint_Laurent_Boulevard" title="Saint Laurent Boulevard">Saint Laurent Boulevard</a> opened by Isadore Shlafman, introducing the <a href="/wiki/Montreal-style_bagel" title="Montreal-style bagel">Montreal-style bagel</a>. The bakery moved in the 1950s to become <a href="/wiki/Fairmount_Bagel" title="Fairmount Bagel">Fairmount Bagel</a>.</li> <li>1919 – <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Madonna_della_Difesa" title="Church of the Madonna della Difesa">Church of the Madonna della Difesa</a> inaugurated.</li> <li>1919 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Clock_Tower" title="Montreal Clock Tower">Montreal Clock Tower</a> cornerstone is laid by <a href="/wiki/Edward_VIII_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VIII of the United Kingdom">the Prince of Wales</a>, on October 31. It is completed in 1922.</li> <li>1919 – On November 22, the city's first regular bus service is launched on St-Étienne Street, better known as <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Bridge St</a>.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1920s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1930s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1920–1939"><span id="1920.E2.80.931939"></span>1920–1939</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 1920–1939"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1920 – The <a href="/wiki/Prohibition" title="Prohibition">Prohibition</a> movement in the United States turns <a href="/wiki/Montreal_night_life" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal night life">Montreal night life</a> into a haven for Americans looking for <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoholic beverages">alcohol</a>.</li> <li>1922 – <a href="/wiki/CKAC" title="CKAC">CKAC</a> radio makes its first broadcast September 22. This is the world's first commercial station broadcasting in French.</li> <li>1923 – The congregation Notre-Dame de Montréal is founded by <a href="/wiki/Marie_Lacoste_G%C3%A9rin-Lajoie" title="Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie">Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie</a>.</li> <li>1923–83 – <a href="/wiki/Belmont_Park,_Montreal" title="Belmont Park, Montreal">Belmont Park, Montreal</a> begins operations.</li> <li>1924 – An illuminated Mount Royal cross is installed by the <a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Saint-Jean-Baptiste" class="mw-redirect" title="Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste">Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste</a>.</li> <li>1924 – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Bronfman" title="Samuel Bronfman">Samuel Bronfman</a> sets up shop as a distributor, founding the Distillers Corporation in Montréal, specializing in cheap whiskey, and takes advantage of <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">prohibition in the United States</a>. Distillers Corporation acquires <a href="/wiki/Joseph_E._Seagram_%26_Sons" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph E. Seagram & Sons">Joseph E. Seagram & Sons</a> of <a href="/wiki/Waterloo,_Ontario" title="Waterloo, Ontario">Waterloo, Ontario</a> from the heirs of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Seagram" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Seagram">Joseph Seagram</a> in 1928.</li> <li>1924–25 – Saint-Ambroise Church built.</li> <li>1925 – June 10 – Canada's Methodist churches, Congregational churches, and a large portion of its Presbyterian churches join to form the <a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Canada" title="United Church of Canada">United Church of Canada</a>.</li> <li>1925 – <a href="/wiki/Power_Corporation_of_Canada" title="Power Corporation of Canada">Power Corporation of Canada</a> founded.</li> <li>1926 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Curb_Market/Canadian_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Curb Market/Canadian Stock Exchange">Montreal Curb Market/Canadian Stock Exchange</a> created.</li> <li>1926 – The Patriotes Monument was unveiled on June 24 (<a href="/wiki/Saint-Jean-Baptiste_Day" title="Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day">Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day</a>); it is the work of Alfred Laliberté. On each of its three faces a carved bronze medallion represents <a href="/wiki/Chevalier_de_Lorimier" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevalier de Lorimier">Chevalier de Lorimier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis-Joseph_Papineau" title="Louis-Joseph Papineau">Louis-Joseph Papineau</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wolfred_Nelson" title="Wolfred Nelson">Wolfred Nelson</a>. The monument is in Place des Patriotes, in front of the former <a href="/wiki/Pied-du-Courant_Prison" title="Pied-du-Courant Prison">Pied-du-Courant Prison</a>.</li> <li>1926 – <a href="/wiki/Queen_Marie_of_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Marie of Romania">Queen Marie of Romania</a> becomes the first reigning monarch to visit Montreal<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1927 – Collège André-Grasset is founded by the <a href="/wiki/Sulpicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulpicians">Sulpicians</a>.</li> <li>1927 – <a href="/wiki/Laurier_Palace_Theatre_fire" title="Laurier Palace Theatre fire">Laurier Palace Theatre fire</a>.</li> <li>1927 – The era of Montreal's first skyscrapers begins: <a href="/wiki/Old_Royal_Bank_Building,_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Royal Bank Building, Montreal">Old Royal Bank Building, Montreal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Life_Building" title="Sun Life Building">Sun Life Building</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aldred_Building" title="Aldred Building">Aldred Building</a>, etc. Until 1927, legislation prevented builders from putting up structures over ten stories high.</li> <li>1928 – <a href="/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al/Saint-Hubert_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport">Saint-Hubert Airport</a> built.</li> <li>1928 – <a href="/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_Jean-de-Br%C3%A9beuf" title="Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf">Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf</a> established.</li> <li>1929 – <a href="/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_Maisonneuve" title="Collège de Maisonneuve">Collège de Maisonneuve</a> established.</li> <li>1930 – Cabaret Frolics opens.</li> <li>1930 – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Cartier_Bridge" title="Jacques Cartier Bridge">Jacques Cartier Bridge</a> opens on May 14 as the Harbour Bridge; it will be renamed for Jacques Cartier in 1934.</li> <li>1930 – <a href="/wiki/Lachapelle_Bridge" title="Lachapelle Bridge">Lachapelle Bridge</a> opens on May 24.</li> <li>1930 – The foundation of the monument of Jean Vauquelin (1728–1772) – defender of <a href="/wiki/Louisbourg" title="Louisbourg">Louisbourg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a> – is laid in Montreal; sculptor Paul-Eugène Benet.</li> <li>1930 – Beginning of commercial flights from Montreal.</li> <li>1930 – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns_Memorial_(Montreal)" title="Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal)">Robert Burns Memorial</a> unveiled on October 18.</li> <li>1930–78 – <a href="/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al-Matin" title="Montréal-Matin">Montréal-Matin</a> published.</li> <li>1931 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montréal. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station <a href="/wiki/CKAC" title="CKAC">CKAC</a> and the newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/La_Presse_(Canadian_newspaper)" title="La Presse (Canadian newspaper)">La Presse</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1931 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Botanical_Garden" title="Montreal Botanical Garden">Montreal Botanical Garden</a> founded.</li> <li>1932 – <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St._Andrew_and_St._Paul_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul (Montreal)">Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul</a> opens.</li> <li>1933 – <a href="/wiki/Jean-Talon_Market" title="Jean-Talon Market">Jean-Talon Market</a> and <a href="/wiki/Atwater_Market" title="Atwater Market">Atwater Market</a> open.</li> <li>1933 – <a href="/wiki/CBME-FM" title="CBME-FM">CBME-FM</a> launched.</li> <li>1933 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Children%27s_Theatre" title="Montreal Children's Theatre">Montreal Children's Theatre</a> founded.</li> <li>1934 – <a href="/wiki/Sir_Mortimer_B._Davis_Jewish_General_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital">Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital</a> founded.</li> <li>1934 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Neurological_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Neurological Institute">Montreal Neurological Institute</a> founded.</li> <li>1934 – <a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Mercier_Bridge" title="Honoré Mercier Bridge">Honoré Mercier Bridge</a> completed in summer.</li> <li>1936 – <a href="/wiki/Air_Canada" title="Air Canada">Air Canada</a> founded on August 11 as Trans-Canada Airlines.</li> <li>1937 – <a href="/wiki/Snowdon_Theatre_(Montreal)" title="Snowdon Theatre (Montreal)">Snowdon Theatre</a> opens in February.</li> <li>1937 – <a href="/wiki/Pie-IX_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Pie-IX Bridge">Pie-IX Bridge</a> opens.</li> <li>1937 – <a href="/wiki/CBF-FM" title="CBF-FM">CBF radio</a> launched.</li> <li>1938–39 – Saint-Jean-Berchmans Church built.</li> <li>1939–45 – World War II – <a href="/wiki/Fort_de_l%27%C3%8Ele_Sainte-H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène">Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène</a> serves to contain 250 prisoners of war, considered Nazi supporters, fascists or deserters.</li> <li>1939 – <a href="/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_International_Marie_de_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Collège International Marie de France">Collège International Marie de France</a> founded.</li> <li>1939 – <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Le_Gardeur_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Le Gardeur Bridge">Pierre Le Gardeur Bridge</a> built.</li> <li>1939 – The <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Montreal" title="Flag of Montreal">Flag of Montreal</a> is first displayed in May, and is based on the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Montreal" title="Coat of arms of Montreal">city's coat of arms</a>.</li> <li>1939–44 – During World War II, Mayor <a href="/wiki/Camillien_Houde" title="Camillien Houde">Camillien Houde</a> protests against <a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">conscription</a> and urges Montrealers to disobey the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Canada" title="Government of Canada">federal government's</a> orders. <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> is furious over Houde's insubordination and holds him in a prison camp until 1944, when the government is forced to institute conscription (see <a href="/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944" title="Conscription Crisis of 1944">Conscription Crisis of 1944</a>).</li> <li>1939–45 – <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Power_Boat_Company" title="Canadian Power Boat Company">Canadian Power Boat Company</a> operated.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1940s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1950s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940–1959"><span id="1940.E2.80.931959"></span>1940–1959</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 1940–1959"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1941 – Opening of the <a href="/wiki/Dorval_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorval International Airport">Dorval International Airport</a> on September 1.</li> <li>1941–51 – Montreal's population grows by 20% and Toronto's by 25%.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1942 – 300th anniversary of Montreal's founding.</li> <li>1943 – <a href="/wiki/Central_Station_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Station (Montreal)">Central Station (Montreal)</a> opens.</li> <li>1943 – <a href="/wiki/Recluse_Sisters" title="Recluse Sisters">Recluse Sisters</a> are founded in <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>. Their inspiration is <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Le_Ber" title="Jeanne Le Ber">Jeanne Le Ber</a>.</li> <li>1944 – <a href="/wiki/Hydro-Qu%C3%A9bec" title="Hydro-Québec">Hydro-Québec</a> founded on April 14 as the Quebec Hydroelectric Commission by nationalizing <a href="/w/index.php?title=Montreal_Light,_Heat_and_Power&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Montreal Light, Heat and Power (page does not exist)">Montreal Light, Heat and Power</a>.</li> <li>1944 – A <a href="/wiki/B-24_Liberator" class="mw-redirect" title="B-24 Liberator">RAF Liberator Bomber</a>, fully loaded for a flight to England, crashes into a row of houses in <a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a> on April 25. 15 to 20 fatalities noted.</li> <li>1945 – <a href="/wiki/Radio_Canada_International" title="Radio Canada International">Radio Canada International</a> launched.</li> <li>1945 – <a href="/wiki/CJAD" title="CJAD">CJAD</a>'s first broadcast.</li> <li>1947 – <a href="/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization" title="International Civil Aviation Organization">International Civil Aviation Organization</a> established in April.</li> <li>1947 – <a href="/wiki/CAE_Inc." title="CAE Inc.">CAE Inc.</a> founded as Canadian Aviation Electronics.</li> <li>1948 – Lachine Museum founded.</li> <li>1949 – <a href="/wiki/Norgate_shopping_centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Norgate shopping centre">Norgate shopping centre</a> built.</li> <li>1949 – <a href="/wiki/Iron_Ore_Company_of_Canada" title="Iron Ore Company of Canada">Iron Ore Company of Canada</a> founded.</li> <li>1940s – <a href="/wiki/Gibeau_Orange_Julep" title="Gibeau Orange Julep">Gibeau Orange Julep</a> first built - original orange-shaped building will be torn down for the construction of the Decarie autoroute and rebuilt in 1965.</li> <li>1951 – <a href="/wiki/Congregation_Shaare_Zedek_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregation Shaare Zedek (Montreal)">Congregation Shaare Zedek</a> founded.</li> <li>1951 – <a href="/wiki/Station_Centrale_d%27Autobus_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Station Centrale d'Autobus Montreal">Station Centrale d'Autobus Montreal</a> built.</li> <li>1951 – <a href="/wiki/St-Hubert" title="St-Hubert">St-Hubert</a> opened.</li> <li>1951–52 – Saint-Sixte Church built.</li> <li>1951–61 – Montreal's population grows by 35% and Toronto's by 45%.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1952 – Bus service replaces streetcars on Boulevard St-Laurent. Gradually, trams began to be replaced by buses.</li> <li>1952 - Regular television broadcasts on a modern system in Canada begin with the inauguration of <a href="/wiki/CBFT-DT" title="CBFT-DT">CBFT</a> on September 6.</li> <li>1954 – <a href="/wiki/Greater_Montreal_Real_Estate_Board" title="Greater Montreal Real Estate Board">Greater Montreal Real Estate Board</a> founded.</li> <li>1954 – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dic_Ann%27s_Hamburgers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dic Ann's Hamburgers (page does not exist)">Dic Ann's Hamburgers</a> founded.</li> <li>1954 – Saint-Arsène Church built.</li> <li>1955 – March 17 – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Riot" title="Richard Riot">Richard Riot</a> on <a href="/wiki/Saint_Catherine_Street" title="Saint Catherine Street">Saint Catherine Street</a> following the suspension of <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Richard" title="Maurice Richard">Maurice Richard</a>.</li> <li>1955 – <a href="/wiki/Gaz_M%C3%A9tro" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaz Métro">Gaz Métro</a> founded as the Corporation de gaz naturel du Québec.</li> <li>1955 – Many buildings are demolished as <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_L%C3%A9vesque_Boulevard" title="René Lévesque Boulevard">Dorchester Street</a> is widened into a boulevard.</li> <li>1957 – The lowest temperature ever recorded was −37.8 °C (−36 °F) on January 15.</li> <li>1958 – <a href="/wiki/Dora_Wasserman_Yiddish_Theatre" title="Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre">Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre</a> founded.</li> <li>1958 – <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hotel" title="Queen Elizabeth Hotel">Queen Elizabeth Hotel</a> completed.</li> <li>1959 – Inauguration of the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_Seaway" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence Seaway">Saint Lawrence Seaway</a> on June 26.</li> <li>1959 – On August 30, having completed its route along the Papineau-Rosemont line, the last streetcar entered the station at 4:50 p.m., ending 67 years of tram service in the city.</li> <li>1959 – <a href="/wiki/LaSalle_College" title="LaSalle College">LaSalle College</a> established.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1960s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1970s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960–1979"><span id="1960.E2.80.931979"></span>1960–1979</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 1960–1979"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1960 – <a href="/wiki/Temple_Emanu-El-Beth_Sholom_(Westmount,_Quebec)" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom (Westmount, Quebec)">Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom</a> completed.</li> <li>1961–71 – Montreal's population grows by 20% and Toronto's by 25%.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1962 – <a href="/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal" title="Underground City, Montreal">Montreal's first</a> tunnel between <a href="/wiki/Place_Ville-Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Place Ville-Marie">Place Ville-Marie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Station_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Station (Montreal)">Central Station</a>.</li> <li>1962 – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89difice_Hydro-Qu%C3%A9bec" class="mw-redirect" title="Édifice Hydro-Québec">Hydro-Quebec building</a> completed.</li> <li>1962 – <a href="/wiki/Pont_Viau" class="mw-redirect" title="Pont Viau">Pont Viau</a> opened.</li> <li>1962 – <a href="/wiki/Champlain_Bridge,_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Champlain Bridge, Montreal">Champlain Bridge, Montreal</a> opens on June 29.</li> <li>1963 – <a href="/wiki/TVA_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="TVA (TV network)">TVA (TV network)</a> launched.</li> <li>1963 – <a href="/wiki/Place_des_Arts" title="Place des Arts">Place des Arts</a> opens.</li> <li>1964–67 – <a href="/wiki/Place_Bonaventure" title="Place Bonaventure">Place Bonaventure</a> constructed.</li> <li>1965 – <a href="/wiki/Lakeshore_General_Hospital" title="Lakeshore General Hospital">Lakeshore General Hospital</a> founded.</li> <li>1965 – <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Notre-Dame" class="mw-redirect" title="Île Notre-Dame">Île Notre-Dame</a> created.</li> <li>1965 – <a href="/wiki/Herzing_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzing College">Herzing College</a> founded.</li> <li>1966 – <a href="/wiki/Dow_Planetarium" title="Dow Planetarium">Dow Planetarium</a> inaugurated on April 1.</li> <li>1966 – Inauguration of <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Metro" title="Montreal Metro">Montreal subway</a> on October 14.</li> <li>1966 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Aquarium" title="Montreal Aquarium">Montreal Aquarium</a> built.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Casino_de_Montr%C3%A9al" class="mw-redirect" title="Casino de Montréal">Casino de Montréal</a> built as the French pavilion at Expo 67.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine_Bridge-Tunnel" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel">Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel</a> opens on March 11.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/La_Ronde_(amusement_park)" title="La Ronde (amusement park)">La Ronde (amusement park)</a> opens in April.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Biosph%C3%A8re" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Biosphère">Montreal Biosphère</a> opens as the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67.</li> <li>1967 – Charles de Gaulle's <a href="/wiki/Vive_le_Qu%C3%A9bec_libre_speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Vive le Québec libre speech">Vive le Québec libre speech</a> delivered on July 24.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_Oratory" title="Saint Joseph's Oratory">Saint Joseph's Oratory</a> completed.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Institut_de_pastorale_des_Dominicains" title="Institut de pastorale des Dominicains">Institut de pastorale des Dominicains</a> established.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Habitat_67" title="Habitat 67">Habitat 67</a> built as part of Expo 67.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_Bois-de-Boulogne" title="Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne">Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne</a> founded.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Expo_67" title="Expo 67">Expo 67</a>.</li> <li>1967 – <a href="/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_Ahuntsic" title="Collège Ahuntsic">Collège Ahuntsic</a> established.</li> <li>1969 – On February 13, the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Stock Exchange">Montreal Stock Exchange</a> is attacked by the <a href="/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec" title="Front de libération du Québec">Front de libération du Québec</a> with a massive bomb that wounded 38 people.</li> <li>1969 – <a href="/wiki/Papineau-Leblanc_Bridge" title="Papineau-Leblanc Bridge">Papineau-Leblanc Bridge</a> opens.</li> <li>1969 – <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_du_Qu%C3%A9bec_%C3%A0_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Université du Québec à Montréal">Université du Québec à Montréal</a> founded.</li> <li>1969 – <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Williams_Computer_Riot" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir George Williams Computer Riot">Sir George Williams Computer Riot</a>.</li> <li>1969 – <a href="/wiki/Concordia_University_Television" title="Concordia University Television">Concordia University Television</a> founded.</li> <li>1969 – October 7 - <a href="/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot" title="Murray-Hill riot">Murray-Hill riot</a>. Illegal 16-hours strike of the Montreal police, bringing chaos in the city.</li> <li>1970 – St. Ann's Church (<a href="/wiki/Griffintown" title="Griffintown">Griffintown</a>) is torn down.</li> <li>1970 – The <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> is closed to shipping.</li> <li>1970 – <a href="/wiki/October_Crisis" title="October Crisis">October Crisis</a>.</li> <li>1971 – <a href="/wiki/Festival_du_Nouveau_Cin%C3%A9ma" class="mw-redirect" title="Festival du Nouveau Cinéma">Festival du Nouveau Cinéma</a> founded.</li> <li>1971 – Montreal receives the biggest snowfall recorded for a year: 383.3 centimetres (12.58 ft).</li> <li>1972 – <a href="/wiki/Blue_Bird_Caf%C3%A9_fire" title="Blue Bird Café fire">Blue Bird Café fire</a> kills 37; deliberately set by patrons angry they were not admitted to the Wagon Wheel Bar upstairs for being too drunk.</li> <li>1972 – <a href="/wiki/1972_Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_robbery" title="1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery">Armed robbers steal 18 paintings</a>, including a Rembrandt, along with 38 pieces of jewellery, from the Museum of Fine Arts in Canada's largest art theft, and indeed largest theft of private property, ever; with the exception of one returned during ransom negotiations, none of the missing works has ever been found nor the thieves publicly identified</li> <li>1974 – Birth of <a href="/wiki/Concordia_University_(Quebec)" class="mw-redirect" title="Concordia University (Quebec)">Concordia University</a> from a merger of <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Williams_University" title="Sir George Williams University">Sir George Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Loyola_College_(Montreal)" title="Loyola College (Montreal)">Loyola College</a>.</li> <li>1975 – <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9-Qu%C3%A9bec" title="Télé-Québec">Télé-Québec</a> first airs on January 19.</li> <li>1975 – The highest temperature ever recorded was 37.6 °C (100 °F) on August 1.</li> <li>1975 – <a href="/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al-Mirabel_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Montréal-Mirabel International Airport">Montréal-Mirabel International Airport</a> opened on October 4.</li> <li>1975 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Canadiens" title="Montreal Canadiens">Montreal Canadiens</a> face the Russian <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> team on December 31.</li> <li>1976 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Biodome" title="Montreal Biodome">Montreal Biodome</a> built as the velodrome for the <a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Summer Olympics</a>.</li> <li>1976 – <a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics</a>.</li> <li>1976 – <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Dufresne" title="Château Dufresne">Château Dufresne</a> declared a historic monument.</li> <li>1976 – Montréal is surpassed in population by <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Toronto_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toronto-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See <a href="/wiki/Toronto-Montreal_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Toronto-Montreal rivalry">Toronto-Montreal rivalry</a>).</li> <li>1977 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_World_Film_Festival" title="Montreal World Film Festival">Montreal World Film Festival</a> founded.</li> <li>1978 – The <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Grand_Prix" title="Canadian Grand Prix">Canadian Grand Prix</a> moves to its current home on <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Notre-Dame" class="mw-redirect" title="Île Notre-Dame">Île Notre-Dame</a> in Montreal.</li> <li>1979 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Holocaust_Memorial_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre">Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre</a> established.</li> <li>1979 – First Montreal International Marathon on August 25.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="1980s"></span><span class="anchor" id="1990s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980–1999"><span id="1980.E2.80.931999"></span>1980–1999</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 1980–1999"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1980 – <a href="/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Opéra de Montréal">Opéra de Montréal</a> founded.</li> <li>1980 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_International_Jazz_Festival" title="Montreal International Jazz Festival">Montreal International Jazz Festival</a> founded.</li> <li>1982 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Jubilation_Gospel_Choir" title="Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir">Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir</a> founded.</li> <li>1982 – <a href="/wiki/Gray_Line_Montreal" title="Gray Line Montreal">Gray Line Montreal</a> founded.</li> <li>1983 – <a href="/wiki/Centre_d%27histoire_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Centre d'histoire de Montréal">Centre d'histoire de Montréal</a> opened.</li> <li>1983 – <a href="/wiki/I_Musici_de_Montr%C3%A9al_Chamber_Orchestra" title="I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra">I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra</a> founded.</li> <li>1984 – A bomb planted by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bernard_Brigham" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Bernard Brigham">Thomas Bernard Brigham</a> in <a href="/wiki/Central_Station_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Station (Montreal)">Central Station</a> kills three French tourists and injures several dozen others on September 3.</li> <li>1984 – On September 11, <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> participates in a youth rally with about 55,000 people in attendance at the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Montreal)" title="Olympic Stadium (Montreal)">Olympic Stadium</a>.</li> <li>1984 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_%22Dunie%22_Ryan" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank "Dunie" Ryan">Frank "Dunie" Ryan</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/West_End_Gang" title="West End Gang">West End Gang</a>, assassinated on November 13.</li> <li>1984 – <a href="/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil" title="Cirque du Soleil">Cirque du Soleil</a> founded.</li> <li>1984 – <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_la_Visitation" title="Île de la Visitation">Île de la Visitation</a> opens as a park and historic site.</li> <li>1987 – The first <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Museums_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Museums Day">Montreal Museums Day</a>.</li> <li>1987 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Flood_of_1987" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Flood of 1987">Montreal deluge</a>: more than 100 mm of rain in 2 hours transforms the sunken Decarie autoroute expressway into a river.</li> <li>1987 – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Promenades_de_la_Cath%C3%A9drale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Promenades de la Cathédrale (page does not exist)">Promenades de la Cathédrale</a> constructed.</li> <li>1987 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Protocol" title="Montreal Protocol">Montreal Protocol</a> enters into force.</li> <li>1989 – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre" title="École Polytechnique massacre">École Polytechnique massacre</a> occurs on December 6. <a href="/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine" title="Marc Lépine">Marc Lépine</a> murders fourteen women and wounds ten other women and four men.</li> <li>1989 – <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Space_Agency" title="Canadian Space Agency">Canadian Space Agency</a> formed on December 14.</li> <li>1990 – <a href="/wiki/Oka_Crisis" title="Oka Crisis">Oka Crisis</a>.</li> <li>1992 – <a href="/wiki/1000_de_La_Gaucheti%C3%A8re" title="1000 de La Gauchetière">1000 de La Gauchetière</a> built; it is <a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Montreal" title="List of tallest buildings in Montreal">Montreal's highest skyscraper</a>.</li> <li>1992 – <a href="/wiki/Concordia_University_massacre" title="Concordia University massacre">Concordia University massacre</a> on August 24. <a href="/wiki/Valery_Fabrikant" title="Valery Fabrikant">Valery Fabrikant</a> kills four people.</li> <li>1992 – <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Centre_Montreal" title="World Trade Centre Montreal">World Trade Centre Montreal</a> completed.</li> <li>1992 – <a href="/wiki/A%C3%A9roports_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Aéroports de Montréal">Aéroports de Montréal</a> founded.</li> <li>1992 – <a href="/wiki/Lion_de_la_Feuill%C3%A9e_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lion de la Feuillée (Montreal)">Lion de la Feuillée</a> was donated by the city of <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a> on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Montreal.</li> <li>1993 – <a href="/wiki/Casino_de_Montr%C3%A9al" class="mw-redirect" title="Casino de Montréal">Casino de Montréal</a> opened.</li> <li>1995 – <a href="/wiki/Unity_Rally" title="Unity Rally">Unity rally</a> held in advance of the <a href="/wiki/1995_Quebec_referendum" title="1995 Quebec referendum">Quebec independence referendum</a>.</li> <li>1996 – <a href="/wiki/Fantasia_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasia Festival">Fantasia Festival</a> founded.</li> <li>1997 – <a href="/wiki/McGill_University_Health_Centre" title="McGill University Health Centre">McGill University Health Centre</a> founded.</li> <li>1998 – Record-setting <a href="/wiki/North_American_ice_storm_of_1998" class="mw-redirect" title="North American ice storm of 1998">North American ice storm of 1998</a> afflicts Montreal and other parts of Quebec.</li> <li>1999 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Convention" title="Montreal Convention">Montreal Convention</a> is adopted by the <a href="/wiki/ICAO" class="mw-redirect" title="ICAO">ICAO</a>.</li> <li>1999 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Economic_Institute" title="Montreal Economic Institute">Montreal Economic Institute</a> established.</li> <li>1999 – <a href="/wiki/World_Anti-Doping_Agency" title="World Anti-Doping Agency">World Anti-Doping Agency</a> set up on November 10.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="21st_century">21st century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="2000s"></span><span class="anchor" id="2010s"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2001–2019"><span id="2001.E2.80.932019"></span>2001–2019</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 2001–2019"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2001 – <a href="/wiki/Reorganization_of_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Reorganization of Montreal">Reorganization of Montreal</a>.</li> <li>2001 – According to <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Canada" title="Statistics Canada">Statistics Canada</a>, in 2001,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the city of Montreal has 1,583,590 inhabitants.</li> <li>2001 - <a href="/wiki/Six_Flags" title="Six Flags">Six Flags</a> acquires La Ronde.</li> <li>2002 – Montreal is <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Merger" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Merger">merged</a> with the 27 surrounding municipalities on the Île de Montréal on January 1. The merger creates a unified city covering the entire Île de Montréal.</li> <li>2002 – Official reopening of the <a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a> exclusively for pleasure boating, May 17.</li> <li>2002 – <a href="/wiki/Concordia_University_Netanyahu_riot" title="Concordia University Netanyahu riot">Concordia University Netanyahu riot</a>, September 9.</li> <li>2004 – Several former municipalities, totalling 13% of the population of Île de Montréal, vote to <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Merger" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Merger">leave the newly unified city</a> in separate <a href="/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum">referendums</a> in June.</li> <li>2004 – Passenger operations through <a href="/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al-Mirabel_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Montréal-Mirabel International Airport">Montréal-Mirabel International Airport</a> cease on October 31.</li> <li>2005 – Montreal hosts the <a href="/wiki/2005_World_Aquatics_Championships" title="2005 World Aquatics Championships">FINA World Aquatic Championships</a></li> <li>2006 – The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Merger" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Merger">demerger</a> becomes effective January 1. Fifteen municipalities remain on the island.</li> <li>2006 – <a href="/wiki/2006_World_Outgames" title="2006 World Outgames">2006 World Outgames</a> take place from July 26 to August 5.</li> <li>2006 – <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Montreal" title="Declaration of Montreal">Declaration of Montreal</a> on July 29.</li> <li>2006 – <a href="/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting" title="Dawson College shooting">Dawson College shooting</a> on September 13. <a href="/wiki/Kimveer_Gill" class="mw-redirect" title="Kimveer Gill">Kimveer Gill</a> kills one student and wounds nineteen others before being winged by a police sniper and committing suicide.</li> <li>2006 – <a href="/wiki/De_la_Concorde_overpass_collapse" title="De la Concorde overpass collapse">De la Concorde overpass collapse</a> on September 30.</li> <li>2007 – Montreal is host to a series of preliminary games of the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_U-20_World_Cup" title="FIFA U-20 World Cup">FIFA U-20 World Cup</a></li> <li>2009 – <a href="/wiki/BIXI_Montr%C3%A9al" title="BIXI Montréal">BIXI</a> launched in May.</li> <li>2011 – <a href="/wiki/2011_Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_theft" title="2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft">2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft</a>. On two occasions in September and October, a thief steals a small antiquity from the museum</li> <li>2011 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Symphony_House" title="Montreal Symphony House">La maison symphonique</a> opens in September.</li> <li>2012 – <a href="/wiki/Charbonneau_Commission" title="Charbonneau Commission">Charbonneau Commission</a> begins examining corruption in Montreal civic governance and collusion among major engineering and construction firms bidding for municipal contracts.</li> <li>2012 – <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rald_Tremblay" title="Gérald Tremblay">Gérald Tremblay</a> steps down as mayor in November after allegations of serious irregularities in party financing. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Applebaum" title="Michael Applebaum">Michael Applebaum</a> becomes interim mayor until municipal elections in November 2013</li> <li>2013 – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Applebaum" title="Michael Applebaum">Michael Applebaum</a> is arrested and indicted with 14 charges including fraud and corruption. He steps down. City councillors elect <a href="/wiki/Laurent_Blanchard" title="Laurent Blanchard">Laurent Blanchard</a> to serve as mayor for the four months remaining before the municipal elections.</li> <li>2013 – Denis Coderre elected mayor of Montreal</li> <li>2015 – Some matches of the <a href="/wiki/2015_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2015 FIFA Women's World Cup">FIFA Women's World Cup</a> are held in Montreal at the Olympic stadium.</li> <li>2017 – Montreal celebrated its <a href="/w/index.php?title=Montreal_375th_anniversary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Montreal 375th anniversary (page does not exist)">375th anniversary</a></li> <li>2017 – <a href="/wiki/Val%C3%A9rie_Plante" title="Valérie Plante">Valérie Plante</a>, Montreal's 45th and first female mayor, <a href="/wiki/2017_Montreal_municipal_election" title="2017 Montreal municipal election">elected</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Montreal" title="History of Montreal">History of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="List of governors of Montreal">List of governors of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Port_of_Montreal" title="Old Port of Montreal">Old Port of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_of_Montreal" title="Port of Montreal">Port of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_Canada" title="List of years in Canada">List of years in Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Quebec_history" title="Timeline of Quebec history">Timeline of Quebec history</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Montreal_history&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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title="Fort Ville-Marie">Fort Ville-Marie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Notre-Dame_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Société Notre-Dame de Montréal">Notre-Dame de Montréal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Montreal" title="Governor of Montreal">Governor of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%B4tel-Dieu_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal">Hôtel-Dieu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Sulpice_Seminary_(Montreal)" title="Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal)">Saint-Sulpice Seminary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Sault" title="Battle of Long Sault">Battle of Long Sault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Montreal" title="Old Montreal">Old Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Peace_of_Montreal" title="Great Peace of Montreal">Great Peace of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Citadel,_Montreal" title="The Citadel, Montreal">Citadel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grey_Nuns" title="Grey Nuns">Grey Nuns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1732_Montreal_earthquake" title="1732 Montreal earthquake">1732 earthquake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Charlevoix_earthquake" title="1870 Charlevoix earthquake">1870 earthquake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Capitulation_of_Montreal" title="Articles of Capitulation of Montreal">Capitulation of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_(1775)" title="Invasion of Quebec (1775)">American occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company">North West Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Montreal" title="Bank of Montreal">Bank of Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Montreal" title="List of mayors of Montreal">List of Mayors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buildings_in_Montreal" title="Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal">Burning of the Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1852" title="Great Fire of 1852">Great Fire of 1852</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavazzi_Riots" title="Gavazzi Riots">Gavazzi Riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bridge_(Montreal)" title="Victoria Bridge (Montreal)">Victoria Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Square_Mile" title="Golden Square Mile">Golden Square Mile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_oldest_buildings_and_structures_in_Montreal" title="List of oldest buildings and structures in Montreal">Oldest buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouimetoscope" title="Ouimetoscope">Ouimetoscope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Riot" title="Richard Riot">Richard Riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Lawrence_Seaway" title="St. Lawrence Seaway">St. Lawrence Seaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_67" title="Expo 67">Expo 67</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Power_movement_in_Montreal" title="Black Power movement in Montreal">Black Power movement in Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Williams_affair" title="Sir George Williams affair">Sir George Williams affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot" title="Murray-Hill riot">Murray-Hill riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_Crisis" title="October Crisis">October Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Metropolitan_Commission" title="Montreal Metropolitan Commission">Montreal Metropolitan Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Urban_Community" title="Montreal Urban Community">Montreal Urban Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Bird_Caf%C3%A9_fire" title="Blue Bird Café fire">Blue Bird Café fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_robbery" title="1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery">1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gargantua_bar_attack" title="Gargantua bar attack">Gargantua bar attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Summer Olympics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overdale" title="Overdale">Overdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre" title="École Polytechnique massacre">École Polytechnique massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex_Garage" title="Sex Garage">Sex Garage protest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002%E2%80%932006_municipal_reorganization_of_Montreal" title="2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal">Montreal merger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Montreal_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_theft" title="2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft">2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concordia_University_Netanyahu_riot" title="Concordia University Netanyahu riot">Concordia University Netanyahu riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting" title="Dawson College shooting">Dawson College shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests" title="2012 Quebec student protests">2012 student movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Historic_Sites_of_Canada_in_Montreal" title="List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Montreal">National Historic Sites in Montreal</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg/60px-Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg/90px-Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg/120px-Armoiries_de_Montr%C3%A9al_1938.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="707" data-file-height="786" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pre-European_period_(Timeline_of_Montreal_history)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-European period (Timeline of Montreal history)">Pre-European period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_century_(Timeline_of_Montreal_history)" class="mw-redirect" title="16th century (Timeline of Montreal history)">16th century</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1600s_(Timeline_of_Montreal_history)" class="mw-redirect" title="1600s (Timeline of Montreal history)">1600s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1610s_(Timeline_of_Montreal_history)" class="mw-redirect" title="1610s (Timeline of Montreal history)">1610s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1620s_(Timeline_of_Montreal_history)" class="mw-redirect" title="1620s (Timeline of Montreal history)">1620s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1630s_(Timeline_of_Montreal_history)" 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Montreal" title="Coat of arms of Montreal">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Montreal" title="Demographics of Montreal">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Montreal" title="Flag of Montreal">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Name_of_Montreal" title="Name of Montreal">Name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Montreal" title="List of people from Montreal">Notable Montrealers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal#Sister_cities" title="Montreal">Sister cities</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Montreal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Flag of Montreal" 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title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Summer Olympics</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Timeline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Montreal" title="Geography of Montreal">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Montreal" title="Downtown Montreal">Downtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Montreal" title="Greater Montreal">Greater Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hochelaga_Archipelago" title="Hochelaga Archipelago">Hochelaga Archipelago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landmarks_of_Montreal" title="Landmarks of Montreal">Landmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_neighbourhoods_in_Montreal" title="List of neighbourhoods in Montreal">Neighbourhoods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Port_of_Montreal" title="Old Port of Montreal">Old Port</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_parks_in_Montreal" title="List of parks in Montreal">Parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re_des_Prairies" title="Rivière des Prairies">Rivière des Prairies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">Saint Lawrence River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Island" title="West Island">West Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al_2025" title="Montréal 2025">Montréal 2025</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Montreal" title="Economy of Montreal">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Trade_of_Metropolitan_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal">Board of Trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Exchange" title="Montreal Exchange">Montreal Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_L%C3%A9vesque_Boulevard" title="René Lévesque Boulevard">René Lévesque Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Jacques_Street" title="Saint Jacques Street">Saint Jacques Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Montreal" title="List of tallest buildings in Montreal">Skyscrapers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Montreal" title="Politics of Montreal">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_Montreal" title="Boroughs of Montreal">Boroughs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_City_Council" title="Montreal City Council">City Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Montreal_municipal_elections" title="List of Montreal municipal elections">Elections</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Montreal" title="List of hospitals in Montreal">Hospitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Service_de_police_de_la_Ville_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Service de police de la Ville de Montréal">Service de police de la Ville de Montréal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Montreal" title="Education in Montreal">Education</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">English-language</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/English_Montreal_School_Board" title="English Montreal School Board">English Montreal SB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester_B._Pearson_School_Board" 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Pearson School Board">Lester B. Pearson SB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concordia_University" title="Concordia University">Concordia University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">French-language</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centre_de_services_scolaire_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Centre de services scolaire de Montréal">CSS de Montréal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centre_de_services_scolaire_Marguerite-Bourgeoys" title="Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys">CSS Marguerite-Bourgeoys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centre_de_services_scolaire_de_la_Pointe-de-l%27%C3%8Ele" title="Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île">CSS de la Pointe-de-l'Île</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_de_technologie_sup%C3%A9rieure" title="École de technologie 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(Montreal)">Notre-Dame Basilica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_James_United_Church_(Montreal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint James United Church (Montreal)">Saint James United Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_Oratory" title="Saint Joseph's Oratory">Saint Joseph's Oratory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Montreal" title="List of tallest buildings in Montreal">Skyscrapers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1000_de_La_Gaucheti%C3%A8re" title="1000 de La Gauchetière">1000 de La Gauchetière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1250_Ren%C3%A9-L%C3%A9vesque" title="1250 René-Lévesque">1250 René-Lévesque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1501_McGill_College" title="1501 McGill College">1501 McGill College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tour_de_la_Bourse" title="Tour de la Bourse">Tour de la Bourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_Ville_Marie" title="Place Ville Marie">Place Ville Marie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tour_CIBC" class="mw-redirect" title="Tour CIBC">Tour CIBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Life_Building" title="Sun Life Building">Sun Life Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complexe_Desjardins" title="Complexe Desjardins">Complexe Desjardins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westmount_Square" title="Westmount Square">Westmount Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maison_Radio-Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Maison Radio-Canada">Maison Radio-Canada</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other structures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atwater_Market" title="Atwater Market">Atwater Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bell_Centre" title="Bell Centre">Bell Centre</a></li> <li><a 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City Hall">Montreal City Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Clock_Tower" title="Montreal Clock Tower">Montreal Clock Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Forum" title="Montreal Forum">Montreal Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_Chalet" title="Mount Royal Chalet">Mount Royal Chalet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_Cross" title="Mount Royal Cross">Mount Royal Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympic_Park_(Montreal)" title="Olympic Park (Montreal)">Olympic Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Montreal)" title="Olympic Stadium (Montreal)">Olympic Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palais_des_congr%C3%A8s_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Palais des congrès de Montréal">Palais des congrès de Montréal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peck_Building" title="Peck Building">Peck Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_Bonaventure" title="Place Bonaventure">Place Bonaventure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_des_Arts" title="Place des Arts">Place des Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Technoparc" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Technoparc">Technoparc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal" title="Underground City, Montreal">Underground City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor_Station_(Montreal)" title="Windsor Station (Montreal)">Windsor Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Centre_Montreal" title="World Trade Centre Montreal">World Trade Centre Montreal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_parks_in_Montreal" title="List of parks in Montreal">Nature and parks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angrignon_Park" title="Angrignon Park">Angrignon Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bois-de-l%27%C3%8Ele-Bizard_Nature_Park" title="Bois-de-l'Île-Bizard Nature Park">Bois-de-l'Île-Bizard Nature Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bois-de-Liesse_Nature_Park" title="Bois-de-Liesse Nature Park">Bois-de-Liesse Nature Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap-Saint-Jacques_Nature_Park" title="Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park">Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarry_Park" title="Jarry Park">Jarry Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parc_Jean-Drapeau" class="mw-redirect" title="Parc Jean-Drapeau">Parc Jean-Drapeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeanne-Mance_Park" title="Jeanne-Mance Park">Jeanne-Mance Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lachine_Canal" title="Lachine Canal">Lachine Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Fontaine_Park" title="La Fontaine Park">La Fontaine Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%27Anse-%C3%A0-l%27Orme_Nature_Park" title="L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park">L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maisonneuve_Park" title="Maisonneuve Park">Maisonneuve Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Botanical_Garden" title="Montreal Botanical Garden">Montreal Botanical Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal" title="Mount Royal">Mount Royal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George-%C3%89tienne_Cartier_Monument" title="George-Étienne Cartier Monument">George-Étienne Cartier Monument</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Port_of_Montreal" title="Old Port of Montreal">Old Port</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympic_Park,_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympic Park, Montreal">Olympic Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Park,_Montreal" title="Oxford Park, Montreal">Oxford Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pointe-aux-Prairies_Nature_Park" title="Pointe-aux-Prairies Nature Park">Pointe-aux-Prairies Nature Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruisseau-De_Montigny_Nature_Park" title="Ruisseau-De Montigny Nature Park">Ruisseau-De Montigny Nature Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_parks_in_Montreal#Urban_squares" title="List of parks in Montreal">Squares</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabot_Square,_Montreal" title="Cabot Square, Montreal">Cabot Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champ_de_Mars,_Montreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Champ de Mars, Montreal">Champ de Mars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Square" title="Dorchester Square">Dorchester Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Square" title="Phillips Square">Phillips Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_d%27Armes" title="Place d'Armes">Place d'Armes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_du_Canada" title="Place du Canada">Place du Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_%C3%89milie-Gamelin" title="Place Émilie-Gamelin">Place Émilie-Gamelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_Jacques-Cartier" title="Place Jacques-Cartier">Place Jacques-Cartier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_Jean-Paul_Riopelle" title="Place Jean-Paul Riopelle">Place Jean-Paul 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title="Nuns' Island">Nuns' Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Helen%27s_Island" title="Saint Helen's Island">Saint Helen's Island</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Montreal" title="Transportation in Montreal">Transportation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Central_Station" title="Montreal Central Station">Central Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Metro" title="Montreal Metro">Montreal Metro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9seau_express_m%C3%A9tropolitain" title="Réseau express métropolitain">Réseau express métropolitain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_transport_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Société de transport de Montréal">Société de transport de Montréal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exo_(public_transit)" title="Exo (public 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