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 THAT Montreal is one of the most beautiful and 
 interesting cities in the whole broad world is a 
 fact so generally acknowledged, as to make any 
 attempt at proving the truth of the statement unnecessary. 
 Those of us who live here have the fact so frequently 
 brought to our minds by our more aesthetically enthusiastic 
 fellow citizens that we have little chance of forgetting it, 
 even were we personally utterly unsusceptible to the 
 constant claims to admiration of our natural surroundings. 
 Montrealers are proud of their city. When the irrepres- 
 sible newspaper interviewer sweeps down upon an unsus- 
 pecting stranger of eminence the moment after he arrives in 
 the city, the distinguished visitor is not asked to unburden 
 himself of the special information or expression of opinion 
 which the scribe is itching to see inscribed on the pages of 
 his note-book, until his opinion has been asked of Montreal 
 and the Mountain. Such used to be one of the standing 
 jokes of the local journalistic profession anyway. If 
 Montreal people are proud of their city, strangers come 
 here but to admire its beauty. 
 
Va it is only within the last two or three years that 
 Montreal's own citizens, or the strangers within her gates, 
 have had the opportutiity to see the city as it should be seen. 
 To understand Montreal's extent and appreciate her 
 position in the world, visit the thrifty family of rapidly 
 developing suburban municipahties which has grown up 
 around her. Study what may fairly be considered the 
 highest development of her cultured home life and domestic 
 happiness in the cozy villas, verdant lawns and gay gardens 
 of a dozen suburbs. Acquaint yourself with the cleanly, 
 modest homesteads that cluster around the busy hives of 
 industry in the great manufacturing outskirts of the 
 Canadian metropolis. Pass out along shady country roads, 
 past laden orchards, yellow cornfields, prolific market 
 gardens and verdant pastures. Make yourself acquainted 
 with that quality so rarely enjoyed in these bustling 
 grasping, struggling days' contentment. Visit that paragon of 
 happy contentment, the industrious, interesting "habitant 
 or French-Canadian farmer, as he tills his narrow strip of 
 farm land, and satisfies himself, honest soul, with the com- 
 fortable reflection that so long as he lives his farm will pro- 
 duce enough to feed and clothe himself and family, and 
 that consequently he has no cause to worry. Even our 
 good republican neighbours will put themselves out to 
 catch a glimpse of one of their so-called great men whose 
 only claim to distinction is their accumulated wealth. In 
 the "habitant" they can find an individual immeasurably 
 more wealthy than their richest millionaire. 
 
 Having visited the outskirts and surroundings of the 
 city, see the view from the Mountain, and you have seen 
 Montreal anu its environments. 
 
 How many Montrealers know Montreal? Probably 
 they all think they do, but do they ? The city proper, the 
 closely built business quarter, where men swelter out the 
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 with the more populous residential quarters, where seclusive- 
 ness and man's inherent love of a peaceful, restful home 
 have succeeded so far in resisting the invasion of trade. 
 But it is only Little Montreal that is comprised within the 
 thirteen wards of the city corporation Montreal really 
 extends far beyond its municipal limits. The men who do 
 the business of the city, who have brought to Montreal the 
 trade of haif a continent, are looking beyond the limits of 
 the city for homes. Although man is pre-eminently a 
 sociable animal, he prefers an ir,olated dv/elling, if he can 
 acquire it. He is neighborly, but he prefers a home sur- 
 rounded by flower gardens rather than one hemmed in by 
 the houses of his neighbors, as in the confined city. So, 
 when a man has acquired the means to provide himself with 
 an ideal residence and is not prepared to pay hundreds 
 of thousands of dollars for a site to build it on, he has to go 
 beyond the city limits for a location. So it comes that the 
 country contiguous to the busy city, is the home of 
 thousands of Montrealers. It appears to be only a question 
 of time before the whole of this fertile island can fairly 
 be described as Greater Montreal. 
 
 What fairer country on earth either, than this great 
 district so rapidly being dotted with the homes of Montreal 
 people ! Scenes of rural beauty there are to enchant the 
 artist and inspire the poet, while historical associations cling 
 to picturesque spots and quaint structures, to inspire the 
 patriotism of the Canadian and excite the interest and the 
 admiration of the stranger. If the people of Montreal have 
 been comparatively ignorant of the natural beauties of the 
 lovely country contiguous to their fair city, they have no 
 excuse for continuing unenlightened any longer. lyike 
 many other good things we enjoy in this latter part of the 
 nineteenth century, we owe this boon to that subtle power, 
 that very latest and most up to date necromancer, electricity. 
 
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Heretofore rural Montreal has been comparatively a sealed 
 book to Montrealers because the highway was the only 
 means availai)ie to reach its solitudes. Kvery citizen of 
 Montreal does not own a horse nor has he the time to 
 indulge in long drives, and none of us enjoy the blinding 
 dust of a country highway. 
 
 To iiave desecrated the adjacem rural paradise with 
 the dust, the cinders and the screeching of the steam railway 
 would have been sacrilege; but railway there had to be. 
 
 ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, MONTREAL. 
 
 Where the steam railway, with its objectionable locomotives, 
 would have meant complete ruination to the natural beauties 
 of the verdure-clad country, the electric railway has been 
 introduced, giving perfect communication between the very 
 heart of the city and some of the most remote and moyt 
 lovely parts of the surrounding country. The country has 
 virtually been brought to the city, and the magician that 
 has p.ccompiished it all is the Montreal Park and Island 
 Railway. 
 
 So far this rapidly extended and carefully planned 
 system is in an incomplete state of development. Each 
 season sees at least one new line of the system completed, 
 
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 and another picturesque part of this lovely Island of 
 Montreal opened up to the inspection and admiration of 
 citizens and to-rists. Before long its system will include a 
 net work of tracks grid-ironing the whole island. At the 
 moment of writing the company is operating two main 
 routes. One of these runs up St. Lawrence street, thence 
 straight across country to Sault-au-Recollet, on the Riviere- 
 des-Prairies, as the arm of the Ottawa River which washes 
 the northern shores of the Island of Montreal is called. 
 From this point lines are now being built in both an 
 easterly and a westerly direction along the bank of the 
 river. The other route now in operation runs up Bleury 
 Street and Park Avenue and makes a complete circuit of 
 both Mountains, connecting with the Street Railway Com- 
 pany's system at Westmount. 
 
 A trip over either of the Company's present routes is a 
 great treat, enabling a tourist, with the minimum of discom- 
 fort, to enjoy a magnificent succession of pretty landscapes. 
 And pretty landscapes, like pretty faces, have ever been a 
 pleasure to the eye since the world began. 
 
 The Cote-des-Neiges line, as it is popularly called, 
 emerges from the city abruptly, at Fletcher's Field, an 
 historical spot. Your car, as it rapidly rolls up the slope of 
 the lower spur of Mount Royal, passes over the ground 
 trodden by the troops of the Imperial army on many a gala 
 field day. In honor of the Queen's Birthday numerous 
 reviews of the Canadian militia have been held here, and in 
 line with them, on three or four occasions, have stood the 
 soldiers of the Ignited States. Upon one occasion the 
 Thirteenth Regiment N. Y. N. G., attended by its chaplain, 
 the great Henry Ward Beecher, came all the way from 
 Brooklyn to do honor to the birthday of Victoria the Good, 
 a delicate act of international courtesy that Canadians will 
 not forget for many a year. 
 
 Montreal is a city with a history, and most of its great 
 
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 institutions share the same distinction, for the early history 
 of some of its institutions is the early history of the munici- 
 pality. Take the Hotel-Dieu, for instance. You pass it to 
 the right, with its symmetrical dome and massive walls, as 
 your car emerges out of Park Avenue and begins to traverse 
 Fletcher's Field. This institution is the oldest in Montreal, 
 having been founded in 1644, by Madame de Bouillon, a 
 
 French lady of very high rank, 
 who sent out 42,000 livres 
 by the hands of Monsieur 
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 hospital in Mont- 
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 titution was one of 
 the objects that led 
 to the foundation 
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 rians tell us that in 1636 
 the Abbe Olier, a zealous 
 priest, while praying in the 
 ON MOUNT ROYAL. Church of St - Germaiu- des- 
 
 Pres, in Paris, received a divine revelation to found, 
 on the Island of Montreal, a society of priests for the 
 propagation of the true faith in the new world. Led 
 by various mystical guidings, he formed the acquaintance 
 of Dauversiere, a receiver of taxes in Anjou, whose mind 
 had been prepared in a similar manner. These two 
 men resolved to found upon this island three religious 
 orders — one of priests, to preach the true faith; another of 
 nuns, to nurse the sick; and a third, also of nuns, to educate 
 the youth. The dream of these enthusiasts is to-day realized 
 in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, the hospital of the Hotel- 
 
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 Dieu, and the schools of the Sisters of the Congregation of 
 Notre-Dame. Olier and Dauversiere had very little money, 
 but they found wealthy men ready to help them in their 
 project, and in 1640 they bought the seigniory of the Island 
 of Montreal, from the Company to whom it had been 
 granted by the King of France. Then finding in Maison- 
 neuve a suitable leader, they sent out in 1641, the colony 
 which, in May, 1642, founded the city of Montreal. The 
 present Hotel-Dieu building was completed in 1861. 
 
 The citizens of Montreal remain true to the noble prin- 
 ciples of charity and philanthropy, which animated the 
 hearts of the founders of the city. From the opposite side 
 of the car, from which you have been looking, you will 
 remark a truly noble pile of stone buildings, gracing a 
 conspicuous eminence at the foot of the main slope of 
 Mount Royal. It is the Royal Victoria Hospital, built and 
 endowed by Lord Mount Stephen and Sir Donald A. Smith, 
 at an expense of one million dollars, in 1887, in comme- 
 moration of the Queen's Jubilee. The highly ornate 
 buildings are a fine specimen of the early baronial style of 
 architecture. 
 
 As you rush along over the rolling green sward, you 
 get a beautiful view of the boldest front of Mount Royal, 
 the majestic height of land which gave at once to Montreal 
 her name and her beauty. From your car window this side 
 of the mountain appears to be even more precipitous than 
 it really is, the result being a very impressive view. The 
 huge, moss-covered rocks which project their jagged corners 
 from the trees and brushwood give a solemnity to this aspect 
 of Mount Royal which is missing on the other sides. But 
 your car is humming along, and you soon pass the capacious 
 exhibition grounds, where are annually held the Montreal 
 industrial exhibitions, and where, after extensive additions 
 have been made, the Canadian International Exhibition will 
 be held in 1897. 
 
 
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 Now you find yourself travelling through the well built 
 streets of Montreal Annex — two years ago farm land — 
 now a populous and bustling suburb. A sharp curve at 
 right angles, to the left, brings you at close acquaintance 
 with the Northern side of the mountain. As your car 
 carries you swiftly along the Outremont Road you catch 
 glimpses of palatial residences almost hidden among the 
 dense groves on your left. To your right you overlook as 
 pretty and home-like a succession of suburban villas as can 
 be seen in the outskirts of London or New York, each house 
 surrounded by a flower garden, prettier than the one next 
 to it, if that were possible. Outremont is no longer a long 
 straggling place of one main street and a fire station. New 
 avenues are being opened out and iiiany handsome homes 
 have already been built upon them. The builder's hammer 
 marks the time for ihe rich chorus of the song birds. 
 
 Beyond, to the north, is a lovely, peaceful pastoral 
 scene, the beauty of which any one with a soul in his body 
 could appreciate. Stately elms wave their spreading 
 branches aloft over waving corn fields or verdant meadow 
 lands. Rustic fences or picturesque hedges define the farms. 
 Here a great blotch of dark green shows where a maple 
 grove has been spared from the wood-man's axe; there, 
 mathematically-straight stripes of other shades of green, 
 indicate the location of orchards. Spots of bright red and 
 pure white, amidst the prevailing greenery, locate the farm 
 building. Tin covered spires, glittering high above the 
 tallest trees, rev^eal the presence of the numerous village 
 churches. For an instant or two you catch a distant 
 glimmer of water. It is the Back River, and away beyond 
 it again you have the heavy outline of the Laurentian Hills, 
 forming a magnificent back-ground. Even when winter, 
 the eternal symbol of jealousy, has revenged itself of this 
 fertile beauty with harsh chuckles, there remains beauty in 
 this landscape. 
 
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 But there is something to interest you on the mountain 
 side too. The line has gradually been drawing away from 
 the main rise of the Mountain, and when, with another sharp 
 curve to the left, your car turns round towards Maplewood, 
 you realize that a village has sprung up as if by magic 
 between the Outremont Road and the Mountain, another 
 result of the construction of the Park and Island Railway. 
 Between rows of pretty houses, the car climbs straight up 
 the slope to a spot at the very base of the main slope of the 
 Mountain. 
 
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 As your car is about to turn off sharply to the right, 
 you notice a busy scene ahead of you. An army of men 
 appear to have set themselves the hopeless task of demolish- 
 ing the Mountain that had been so prominent a feature of 
 this landscape for thousands of years before the Garden of 
 Eden. It is the corporation quarry, a perfect mine of 
 wealth for the geologist. This quarry supplies the City 
 Surveyor with the very hard stone used for road metal. 
 Steam drills and stone crushers prepare the material on the 
 spot, so that it has only to be crushed as required. There is 
 apparently here an outpour of volcanic material, from the 
 side of the Mountain, of a peculiar kind. The principal 
 
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 part of the erupted rock consists of nepheline syenite, some- 
 vaiat resembling that of Yamaska mountain. Ihis is a 
 comparatively rare mineral, being found in very few 
 localities That at Montreal contains much nepheline and 
 in some parts fine crystals of natrolite, with here and there 
 pieces of blue sodalite. The rare mineral Dawsonite, 
 originally found behind McGiU University and named after 
 Sir W J Dawson, the distinguished geologist, has also 
 been found here with others interesting to chemist and 
 mineralogist. Very fine, though small, crystals of calcite 
 have also been gathered. It is interesting to observe how 
 the heart of this intrusive mass has changed the neighboring 
 magnesian limestone into a crystalline marble. 
 
 When you left your car it was heading south, and 
 straight for the beetling cliff of the Mountain. When you 
 re-enter it to continue the tour of the Mountain, (for it is 
 really only one, though popularly spoken of as two) it 
 turns off at right angles to the right. Here a broad avenue, 
 apparently destined to be the Pine iVvenue of Northern 
 Montreal, makes a magnificent thoroughfare to Cote-des- 
 Neiges Fine houses are being built or have been built 
 here and picturesque homes they make, with the abrupt, 
 maple-clad slope of the Mountain on one side and a perfect 
 panorama of rural beauty on the other. The line reaches 
 C6te-des-Neiges Road at a point midway between Lumpkin s 
 and the Athletic Club House. 
 
 The Athletic Club House entertains a different snow- 
 shoe club every night of the week during the winter, when 
 after the invigorating tramp over the Mountain, the members 
 meet in the capacious hall to dance, to sing and to enjoy 
 themselves generally before devoting themselves to the 
 demolition, with neatness and despatch, of a snowshoe supper 
 Just at present there is some doubt as to the future of 
 the Athletic Club House, for it has not been a profitable 
 enterprise lately, and it is proposed to sell it. 
 
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 C6te-des-Neiges is chiefly known by its holding within 
 its limits the Roman Catholic Cemetery for the city and 
 district of Montreal, one of the most historical and pic- 
 turesque cities of the dead on the continent of America. 
 The Park and Island Railway has a station immediately 
 adjoining one corner of the great burying ground, but many 
 people have a preference for entering by the main entrance, 
 which can be reached by five minutes' profitable walk along 
 a shady country highway from the station on the Cote-des- 
 Neiges Road. On the most imposing point in the cemetery, 
 a monument which strikes the eye immediately upon enter- 
 ing the massive gates, of severely classical architecture, is a 
 very tall obelisk of limestone, a monument erected to the 
 Patriots of i8-,7, the men who were killed in the actions of 
 the Rebellion of that year or executed after the uprising 
 had been put down. Further back in the cemetery is a very 
 handsome monument erected over the grave of the late Sir 
 Oeorge E. Cartier, who was also a leader in the rebellion, 
 but lived long enough afterwards to be the leader of the 
 French Conservatives and to receive knighthood from the 
 Queen in recognition of his services to the Crown. 
 
 The monument to the rebels of 1837- 1838 was erected 
 by subscriptions raised by the St. Jean-Baptiste Society and 
 the Institut Canadien. While there only rests beneath its 
 broad foundations the bones of a few of the men of the 
 crreat Rebellion, the names of all of those who fell m the 
 battles of St. Denis, St. Charles, St. Eustache and Lacolle 
 are inscribed upon its face, as are also the names of the 
 twelve rebels who were hanged in the court yard of the 
 Montreal gaol for treason. To your right as you enter the 
 cemetery, one of the first of the terrace of sepulchral vaults 
 which will at once arrest your attention is that containing 
 the mortal remains of the late Thomas D'Arcy McGee, the 
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 accorded an imposing public funeral. D'Arcy McGee was 
 one of the first Irishmen of his day. A member of the 
 "Young Irish Party" in 1848, he was a colleague of the 
 celebrated Smith O'lirien, and for a time editor of the 
 historical organ of the Irish agitation, "The Nation." 
 Banished to Australia, he was a fellow convict with Chas. 
 Gavin Duffy, who went to the great colony at the Antipodes 
 a convict, became Prime Minister, rendered distinguished 
 service to the colony and the Empire, and returned to 
 Ireland,' Sir Charles Gavin Duffy, K. C. M. G. A few feet 
 away from McGee' s vault is that of the late Honore Mercier, 
 for some years the favorite tribune and hero of the French 
 Canadian race. Not very far away is the grave of the late Sir 
 Louis H. Lafontaine, the father of responsible government 
 in Canada. An object of considerable historical interest to 
 the Canadian is a plain coffin-shaped block of limestone 
 covering a grave some distance back in the cemetery, near 
 the southern limit of the graves. The inscription whicli 
 was once there is quite undecipherable, so much of the face 
 of the hard stone has been chipped off by relic hunters. 
 Could you read the obliterated letters you would learn that 
 this is the grave of the late Joseph Guibord, who died about 
 1870. Being a member of the Institut Canadien, a society 
 proscribed by the Roman Catholic Church, burial in con- 
 secrated ground in the Cote-des-Neiges Cemetery was 
 refused by the church authorities. Litigation followed; 
 and finally the case was taken to the very foot of the 
 Throne. Then the order to permit the burial in the family 
 lot was obtained. Meantime for some four or five years the 
 casket containing the dust of Guibord had been deposited 
 in the receiving vault of the Protestant Cemetery. When 
 the removal was atteny)ted under the order of the Privy 
 Council the Cote-des-Neiges Cemetery gates were closed in 
 front of the hearse, and a mob, gathered outside, pelted the 
 
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 his life. The services of twelve hundred soldiers had to be 
 called into requisition, before the authority of the law was 
 asserted and the mandate of the highest court in the realm 
 could be put into effect, an imposing display suiely for the 
 funeral of a modest printer. One of the features of the 
 C6te-des-Neiges Cemetery is the "Way of the Cross," a 
 series of stations illustrating the fourteen scenes in the 
 progress of Our vSaviour to the cross. On the highest peak 
 in the cemetery the series terminates with a life-size repre- 
 sentation of the Crucifixion. The faithful of the various 
 parishes in the Diocese of Montreal make periodical 
 pilgrimages to this "Way of the Cross," the scene when 
 such a function is in progress being most impressive to the 
 spectator. 
 
 Religious distinctions have to be preserved after death, 
 and a fence separates the Cote-des-Neiges Cemetery from 
 the Protestant burial ground — Mount Royal Cemetery. The 
 latter is, in several respects, the more picturesque cemetery 
 of the two. From its upper slopes can be had what is 
 certainly one of the most lovely scenes in this world of 
 loveliness. Your gaze passes from the silent abode of 
 Montreal's dead, across the berutiful valleys, the green 
 fields, the trim orchards, and the church-adorned and 
 peaceful villages of the Island of Montreal, to where Lake 
 St. Louis, its wavelets rippling in the sun, shines round its 
 emerald-like islands as if it were a sea of crystal. On the 
 great mouL.i ' is of this cemetery appear the names of Sir 
 Hugh A'; i; o. the dllespies, the McTavishes, the 
 Torrances, the Molsons, the Mackays, the Gaults, and of 
 many other of the merchant princes of by-gone days. Just 
 across the gorgeous bit of landscape gardening, immediately 
 inside the chasle entrance gate, is the monument to young 
 Hackett, the Orangeman killed in the Twelfth of July row, 
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 effusions of blood. 
 
 This incident stirred up considerable ill feeling between 
 the various religious denominations at the time ; but this 
 has long since disappeared. As Dr. S. E. Dawson, (to 
 whose " Hand-book " I owe most grateful acknowledgment) 
 puts it : " There is in Montreal, a vast amount of tolerant 
 feeling in religious matters, which quietly tides over 
 disputes when they threaten to be dangerous, and demon- 
 strates, alike in Protestant and Roman Catholic, the falseness 
 of Rousseau's maxim that it is impossible to live at peace 
 with people whom one believes to be eternally lost." In 
 the old times, just after the conquest, the Protestants used 
 one of the Roman churches for worship after the morning 
 mass. For twenty years after 1766 the Church of England 
 people occupied the Church of the Recollets every Sunday 
 afternoon. The Presbyterians used the same church before 
 1792, and when the congregation moved to their first church 
 in St. Gabriel Street, they presented to the priests of the 
 Recollet Church a gift of candles for the high altar and of 
 wine for the mass, as a token of good will and thanks for 
 the gratuitous use of the church. This truly is an inci- 
 dent, of which Montrealers have good cause to be proud, 
 and conveys a lesson, which, it is hoped, will never be 
 forgotten. 
 
 Another point of attraction for visitors to this cemetery 
 is the magnificent monument erected over the graves of 
 nearly a dozen members of the Montreal Fire Brigade who 
 have lost ^their lives, at different times, in the discharge of 
 their dangerous duties. 
 
 From a point near the dividing line between the two 
 cemeteries runs a drive and pathway affording easy access 
 to the Pines, the " outlook " and the other points of attrac- 
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 Mount Royal Park covers 430 acres and was acquired 
 by the city in 1874. It was laid out by Mr. Frederick Law 
 Olmstead, who also planned Central Park in New York, 
 and had had wide experience in landscape gardening. Mr. 
 Olmstead's ruling principle in laying out the Mountain 
 Park was that it was only by following in the lines which 
 nature had already laid down, and by bringing these half 
 hidden, but characteristic beauties fully to light by the 
 resources of art, that the most could be made of the won- 
 derful possibilities of the magnificent property. Mr. 
 Olmstead, in his plans, calls the highest parts of the Moun- 
 tain, the Upperfell. Lower, on the southern spur, near the 
 spot known as " the Pines," is what he calls the Brachenfell. 
 The expanse of rolling, grassy, park-like turf to the West, 
 he calls the glades. The steep declivities around which 
 winds the^^ascending road, he calls the cliffs. The forest 
 land through which this serpentine road passes is the 
 Underfell. "The land towards the northeast, he calls 
 Cragsfoot. At the north end of the Mountain is Piedmont, 
 and the level plain which stretches out towards St. Jean- 
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 ^^iHE views over the surrounaing 
 country are unsurpassed. On the 
 south, across the broad shipping- 
 laden St. Lawrence, is the level 
 prairie dotted with villages, from 
 Laprairie, in the distant bay on the 
 right, to Varennes. The mountains 
 rising abruptly from the plain are 
 commencing from the w«ist, Mon- 
 noir, or Johnson, ShefFord, Rouge- 
 mont, with Yamaska behina it, 
 Belceil and Montarville. In the 
 remote distances are the Adiron- 
 dacks in New York, westward, 
 and the Green Mountains in 
 _ Vermont, to the south. 
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 ,/w*?C bird's eye view of which has been thus 
 described by Mr. W. D. Howells : — "So far as the eye 
 reaches, it dwells only upon what is magnificent. All 
 the feat res of the landscape are grand. Below you 
 spreads .he city, which has less that is merely mean 
 in it than any other city on our continent, and which is 
 everywhere ennobled by stately civic edifices, adorned 
 with tasteful churches, and skirted by fuU-foliaged avenues 
 of mansions and villas. "^ * * As our travellers gazed 
 upon all this grandeur their hearts were humbled to the 
 tacit admission that the colonial metropolis was not only 
 wcrthy of its seat, but had traits of a solid prosperity not 
 excelled by any of the abounding and boastful cities of the 
 Republic." 
 
 But to return to Cote-des-Neiges. At a few minutes walk 
 from the cemetery gates can be seen the ruins of an old 
 house said to have 1- n the scene of one of the most 
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 French Governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, and the 
 British General, Amherst, the terms of the surrender of 
 Montreal and the capitulations of Canada. In this modest 
 building was done the deed which settled the future of 
 Canada as a portion of the British Empire and banished for 
 ever the fleur-de-lys from the soil of America. 
 
 Two public institu- 
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 buildings erected on a 
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 the ProviL:ial house of the order,°and mos' of the' two 
 hundred students in attendance, are Er^glish-speaking 
 Roman Catholic lads from the United Stat--;. 
 
 The Mo)iastery of the Sisters of the Precious Blood was 
 founded in 1874. The sisters are an order of cloistered 
 nuns who spend their time in perpetual adoration. Their 
 dress is a plain gown of white, caught up at the waist in a 
 blood red girdle or sash. From the time they enter the 
 gloomy monastery walls, they are practically dead to the 
 world. At long, stated intervals they are allowed to con- 
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 cincts of the cloister but the Archbishop of the Diocese 
 and the Governor-General of Canada as representing the 
 Sovereign. 
 
 Re-entering our car where we left it, we soon find our- 
 selves running rapidly along, in a westerly direction, down a 
 wide thoroughfare, past fine country residences, gentlemen 
 farmers' establishments and a couple of extensive sugar 
 maple bushes that would be a credit to the Eastern Town- 
 ships. As you descend a great ridge, you have spread 
 before you in a panorama the splendid farms of the Cote St. 
 Luc Plain, while beyond, in the far distance, you survey 
 at one glance the whole glittering expanse of Lake St. 
 Louis and distinguish the location of the more popular 
 summer resorts on the shores of that broad sheet of water. 
 The domes and spires of Lachine can be distinctly made 
 out, while the distant spire of the Pointe Claire Church can 
 be easily distinguished on a clear day. Ere long you pass 
 into the boundaries of the parish of Notre-Dame-de- Grace, 
 and, after passing an abrupt curve to the left, you soon 
 arrive on the edge of the height of land overlooking the 
 southern part of Westmount, formerly Ccte St. Antoine ; 
 the new municipality of Kensington, the manufacturing 
 suburbs of St. Henri and Cote St. Paul and the St. 
 Lawrence River. A glimmering streak of white in the 
 right distance, through the tree tops, indicates the furious 
 tumult of the Lachine Rapids. After a considerable descent, 
 another curve to the left, and a rapid run through orchards 
 and market gardens brings us to the very centre of West- 
 mount, the- fashionable West End residential suburb, and 
 also to our connection with the Montreal Street Railway 
 system. 
 
 In a few months a line of the Park and Island Railway 
 will coiniect the section of the system we have just passed 
 over with Rockfield and Lachine. 
 
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 in 1849 and is directed by the Fathers of the 
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 But we have passed several points of interest. The 
 large stone building, surrounded by charred ruins of a more 
 stupendous edifice, to the left, on the western spur of the 
 Mountain ridge, are what is left of Ville-Marie Convent, 
 the Alma Mater of many of the most fashionable ladies of 
 Canada and the United States. The imposing main build- 
 ing, which was the home of one thousand nuns and pupils, was 
 destroyed three years ago, but will soon rise again from its 
 ashes. This is the Mother House of the Sisters of the 
 Congregation of Notre- Dame, the religious community 
 founded in 1653, by Marguerite Bourgeois, for the purpose 
 of affording instruction to the youth of Canada. The order 
 includes one thousand and seventy-four nuns, scattered over 
 all parts of America, from Alaska to New Mexico, and 
 having no less than twenty- four thousand pupils in their 
 charge. 
 
 Monklands is the name of the site of Ville Marie Con- 
 vent, and it has a history of national importance. When 
 Montreal was the seat of Government for Canada, Monk- 
 lands was the official residence of the governors-general. 
 The plain square stone building now incorporated in the 
 convent was the Governor's residence, the long characteristic 
 looking building, six hundred yards south-east from it being 
 the barracks of the regular cavalry troop, doing duty as 
 vice-regal escort. When the Tories of Montreal very prac- 
 • lically demonstrated the sincerity of their disapproval of 
 the Rebellion Losses Bill by rotten-egging the then 
 Governor- General, Lord Elgi.., father of the present 
 Viceroy of India, and incidentally burned down the Parlia- 
 ment buildings, the seat of government was removed from 
 Montreal, and Monklands was sold. 
 
 So much for the round- the-Mountain route. Now for 
 a run out to the Back River. We can board the car any- 
 where on St. Lawrence Street, or on Craig Street, westward 
 as far as Clienneville. As the car passes through St. Louis 
 
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 du Mile End you pass close by the iinniense excavations 
 from which have been hewn and blasted the great stone 
 buildings which are the just pride of Montreal. 
 
 The quarries at Mile Knd have for many years supplied 
 the beautiful building stone which adds so much to the 
 appearance of our city. It is found in great abundance 
 and can be obtained in large .slabs. Fortunately it exactly 
 .suits the climatt, neither the extreme heat or hardest frost 
 affecting it as may be seen in the oldest l)uildings in the 
 city. This fact was certainly unknown to a Briti.sh 
 scientist, who, in one of his published works, stated that 
 the climate of Canada was .so severe that outside stonework 
 required to be painted over to secure it from the effects of 
 the .severe frost. This limestone is also well suited for rough 
 carving and much of it when polished makes a pretty 
 marble. It was formed in the Silurian period and .some of 
 the strata contain well preserved forms of the creatures who 
 lived at that time, particularly Calymene, Trinunculus, 
 Lingula, vStrophomena Orthis, Rhynconella, Camarella, 
 Orthoceratitis, Conularia, Crinoids, etc. Above the lime- 
 stone is a deposit of pleistocene age in which may be 
 found vSaxicava, Macoma, Greenlandican, Astarte, Lauren- 
 tina, Natica, Mytihis and that rare shell Choristes elegans, 
 with others peculiar to that period. 
 
 Your car emerges into the open fields at the C. P. R. 
 crossing, near the Mile Knd station, and follows rather a 
 zig-zag course to Sault-au-Recollet. The route is first 
 across the fields to the capacious lacros.se grounds of the 
 Shamrock Lacro.sse Club, the best equipped athletic grounds 
 in Canada. The line is double-tracked to this point. 
 Thence along the side of an apparently virgin bush, the 
 route runs through the northern limits of St. Denis 
 Boulevard and Amherst Park, where may be said to be 
 located the city outposts, for out here, vhere it is too far 
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 on the mountain side, city mechanics are buying bush lots, 
 clearing the sites and building houses for themselves. Forty 
 
 ^ or fifty huml)Ie dwellings, erected close together in one spot, 
 
 resemble more a clearing in the ! ickwoods than the 
 embryonic suburb of a great city. 
 
 A pull of the bell to start again after a stop, to let off a 
 hard handed son of toil who has spent the night at work in 
 the city, and the car glides through as pretty a bit of bush 
 
 I cutting as one would expect to see on a colonization railway 
 
 in the far north. Another backwoods-like settlement, with 
 men at work, pulling up stumps in what will some of these 
 days be their front gardens ; another stretch of virgin forest 
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 Here is presented to your view a scene perfectly ravish- 
 ing in its rustic beauty. Across a wide shallow valley you 
 gaze down a park-like slope to the Rivi^re-des-Prairi'es or 
 Back River. The pastures, the cattle, the cultivated fields 
 the group of people at work, the elms, the maple groves' 
 the picturesque farm buildings, the church steeples make 
 up a noble picture. The greens of the foliage, the blue and 
 white of the sk3, the silver sheen of the river, everything is 
 beautiful. Here and there appears a clump of sumach 
 noteworthy and oriental in its blaze of dark green and 
 purple foliage and scarlet fruit. 
 
 And what a grand opportunity an electric railway 
 affords for seeing and enjoying a rare bit of scenery like 
 this. The windows of your cozily equipped car are wide 
 open, every one of them. You are in no danger of being 
 choked by dust or blinded by cinders, for there are neither 
 cinders nor dust on this electric railway. The absence of 
 the torturing cinder is easily understood, and the absence of 
 the equally annoying dust is just as easy to explain. The 
 Park and Island Railway tracks are ballasted with stone 
 broken macadam, securing at once a .solid road bed and 
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 jolting are reduced to the minimum. The cars glide along 
 with an easy rolling motion and with the windows wide 
 open you can carry on conversation as easily as if you were 
 in your own drawing room. It is certainly the nearest 
 approach to perfection we have in the way of travelling 
 ashore. 
 
 Meantime we are getting along towards Back River or 
 Sault-au-Recollet. We: have come across fields redolent of 
 new mown hay and we have cut through some grand 
 gardens, filled with those dear old-fashioned flowers our 
 grandmother used to love, but which somehow or another 
 have gone out of fashion for the sake of some of these new 
 fangled annuals which are not half as pretty. The car 
 glides along swiftly, but you have time to distinguish, 
 among the treasures of the "habitants" gardens, the gay 
 scarlet lychnis, the blue and white lupin, the digitalis, the 
 quaint columbine, the old-fashioned tiger lily, the sweet- 
 william, the bleeding heart and the perennial phlox. The 
 old-fashioned little French farm houses recall old times, and 
 it is a fitting impression to have upon your mind when you 
 approach Sault-ar Recollet, for its honest old world quaint- 
 ness and quiet, so close as it is to Nineteenth Century bustle, 
 ugliness and sham, is one of its chiefest charms. 
 
 In another minute, the car stops at the pretty little 
 station near Peloquin's Hotel, a well-known and capacious 
 hostelry, kept by a man whose name is a household word 
 to the people of Montreal. Peloquin's Hotel has for years 
 been a favorite resort for driving parties, and the Montreal 
 Tendem Club made it one of their regular stopping places 
 to break their winter afternoon drive. We are in Sault-au- 
 Recollet now, but the line runs a full mile down the river 
 bank to the other end of the village. Before the railway was 
 built, the village was confined to the river bank, city people 
 are now building villas along broad avenues opened up at 
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 .AULT-AU-RECOLLET is the proper name of the 
 place, and that the popular name, Back River came 
 to be so generally used, is a pity, for the former name 
 perpetuates a martyrdom ; the English name means nothing, 
 and it is palpably commonplace. Sault-au-RecoUet recalls 
 the heroic days of Canada, when a mere handful of pious 
 men were carrying their lives in their hands in the rash, 
 daring hope of subduing this vast country and its savage 
 
 inhabitants into submission 
 to France and the Roman 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 The RecoUet Friars, as 
 early as 1620, began the erec- 
 tion of a convent near Quebec, 
 although the whole popula- 
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 did not exceed 50 souls. But 
 such was the devotional spirit 
 of the time that different mo- 
 nastic orders were enabled 
 through the liberality of the 
 pious in France to found 
 amidst the Canadian wilds 
 ■ vast establishments of educa- 
 tion and beneficence which are still the boast of the 
 French Canadians. In 16 18 Pope Paul IV. accorded, at 
 the instance of the French Ambassador, the charge of 
 missions in Canada to the Recollets of Paris. Several 
 of these religious men lived and died among the natives, 
 and they were the only missionaries in the colony until 
 1624, when Father Le Ciat gave an invitation to a few 
 Jesuits to come over from France. As the Recollets were 
 the earliest missionaries to Canada, so were they the first to 
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 Father Nicholas Vien, an intrepid member of the o der, 
 undertook a long journey into the interior with Huron 
 Indians as guides. The missionary's canoe, it is supposed 
 ])y the design of the Indians, was upset in the rapids at 
 Sault au-Recollet, and Father Vien was drowned, hence the 
 name given to the rapids and transferred to the village. 
 The.se historical rapids are well worth a long trip to see, for 
 their beauty alone. It is a most picturesque rapid, and as 
 
 SAULT-Ar-RKCOLLET— PRESENT TERMINUS STATION. 
 
 you stand immediately over it on the substantial bridge, 
 gazing upon the turbulent mass of plunging, roaring water, 
 you feel at once awed and fascinated. 
 
 Sault-au-Recollet is a typical French Canadian village; 
 in many respects the most characteristic on the Island of 
 Montreal. Its main street with its little houses, its French 
 ovens, its old way-side crosses and its old-fashioned gardens, 
 might be taken for a .section of one of the quaint country 
 roatis about Quebec. The parish called La Visitation was 
 founded in 1736. Its parish church, the original of which 
 was built in 1751, twenty-five years before the United vStates 
 declared their independence, is a splendid specimen of the 
 
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 Robin, Sadler 
 
 dc Maworth, 
 
 . . . CORNER OF . . . 
 
 Seigneurs and William Streets, 
 Montreal. 
 
 . MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Oak 
 
 Tanned Leather Belting 
 
 
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 TORONTO HOUSE: 
 
 No. 9 JORDAN STREET. 
 
46 
 
 old-fashioned Roman style of architecture so popular last 
 century in our country parishes. Perhaps the glory, though, 
 of Sault-au-Recollet, is its convent, the famous vSacred Heart 
 Convent, where have been educated the daughters of many 
 of the leading families of the United States and of Canada. 
 Among its pupils it, at one time, numbered Miss Davis, the 
 daughter of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confe- 
 derated States, and still lovingly called in the South, the 
 
 Daughter of the Confederacy. At 
 another time Albani, the great 
 Canadian cantatrice, was a pupil at 
 the convent. The Jesuits have 
 ;. a novitiate here, founded in 
 1842, where young clergymen 
 are trained for the mili- 
 tant order of the J^^suits. 
 The Brothers of St. a- 
 briel also have a novi- 
 tiate and a school here, 
 while in 1877 there was 
 established near by the Home 
 of St. Janvier for aged and in- 
 firm priests. 
 
 The Back River is not one of those streams which is too 
 idle to grind the corn that grows upon' its banks, but 
 provides a considerable water power. So far a paper mill is 
 the chief industry of the place, and lovers of the picturesque 
 will hope that commercial enterprise will never be allowed 
 to interfere with the natural beauties and quaint antiquities 
 of Sault-au-Recollet. 
 
 Such radical handmaids of Nineteenth-Century civiliza- 
 tion as telephones and electric railways, are no respecters of 
 antiquities, they tell us ; but it is doubtful whether the 
 charge is just. A general sacrifice of the historical mile 
 stones which mark the course of our country's short and 
 
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 Dominion Wire Mfg. Co. 
 
 LIMITED 
 
 Works at Lachine Near Montreal.) 
 
 
 OFI ICES : 
 
 TEMPLE BUILDING, 
 
 MONTREAL. 
 
 oriiCE : 
 
 n FRONT ST. E. 
 
 TORONTO. 
 
 MANITACTURKRS OF . 
 
 Pure Lake Superior 
 
 GOPPCR WIRE 
 
 for Electrical and 
 other purpose**. 
 
 Galvanized, Telegraph, Telephone and Span Wire. 
 
 . . . ALSO ... 
 
 BARBED ANo PLAIN TWIST FENCING. 
 
 IRON, STEEL & BRASS WIRE for all purposes. 
 
 Wire Nails, Bright Goods, 
 
 Steel and Brass Wood Screws, 
 
 "Crescent" Coat and Hat Hooks, 
 Steel and Brass Jack Chain. 
 
 ALL OF A. 1. QUALITY, NEATLY and STRONGLY PACKED and 
 
 GUARANTEED SECOND TO NONE. 
 
48 
 
 LABELLE'S HOTEL, Back River, open day and night. 
 
 rough, but noue the less glorious, career is not essential to 
 modern progress. By bringing beautiful and interesting 
 spots within the easy reach of the city and the tourist the 
 electric railway is doing its part towards saving from 
 oblivion and neglect many places hallowed by historical 
 associations and consecrated by natural beauty. 
 
 Ernest J. Chambers. 
 
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 LABELLE'S HOTEL, Back River, open day and night. 
 
 Montreal booked Wire 
 rence Go., 
 
 368 St. James Street, 
 Montreal. 
 
 Fences for Farms, Railroads, Gardens & Suburban Lots. 
 
 )c-::^z^^^:l=s^^.■_>^h>ri:^li 
 
 Ornamental Fencing. 
 
5° 
 
 PLACES OF INTEREST 
 
 ALONG THE LINE or THE 
 
 Montreal Park & Island Railway Co. 
 
 Sii\LIL,T-AU-RBGOL,L.EiT L.IMB. 
 
 Monument National. 
 
 Shamrock Lacrosse Grounds. 
 Jewish Cemetery. 
 
 Bougie's Corners. 
 
 Peloquin's Hotel. 
 
 Convent of the Sacred Heart. 
 
 N(n'iciate of the Jesuit Order. 
 Parish Church. 
 
 Sault-au-Recollet Village. 
 
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 OUTRtMONT UI?SB. 
 
 Church of the Gesu. 
 
 Hotel-Dieu. 
 
 Royai Victoria Hospital. 
 
 p:xhibition Grounds and Ruildings. 
 
 Athletic Club House. 
 
 Notre-Dame-des-Neiges College. 
 
 Wonklands and ruins of Vilki Maria Convent. 
 
 Mackay Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. 
 
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 tel. 
 
 3ge. 
 
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 umb. 
 
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 WALTER TOWNSEND & CO. 
 
 Railway Supplies 
 
 AND General Agents, 
 
 STANDARD BUILDING, 
 
 157 St. James Street, 
 
 riONTREAL. 
 
 -^ 
 
 STBB^l^ RAII,S (New and First-class Seconds.) 
 
 TIN PhATBS, fire: BRICK. 
 
 SCRAP METAI,S BOUGHT and SOl,D. 
 
 COTTON WASTi: (White and Colored.) 
 
 CYhlNDIiR AND SIGNAI, OH,S. 
 
 I,FATHFR BFLTING, FTC, FTC. 
 
 Telephone No. 2385. 
 
 TELKGRAPHIC ADDRESS i 
 TOWNSEND, MONTREAL. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1820. 
 
 EAGLE FOUNDRY, 
 
 engine and . . 
 
 Boiler Works 
 
 ...MONTREAL... 
 
 GEORGE BRUSH, 
 
 Proprietor. 
 
 Office, 34 KING SI 
 
 Telriphone No. 435. 
 
 SPECIALTIES : 
 
 Heine Safety Boilers, Elevators, Stone Breakers. 
 
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 1. m. a. 
 
 CollCGe be 
 metre =S)ame ^ bes =^1Fleiges 
 
 MONTREAL, CANADA. 
 
 Terms: $100.00 per Year. 
 
 ^lUS institution, directed by the Religious of the Holy ( ross occu- 
 XL pies one of the most beautiful and salubrious sites in Canada. It 
 ^v^founded for Kiving a ChrisU mi education to Boys between the ages 
 :rfive alid twelvt years. They receive here all the -e and attenUon 
 to which thev are accustomed in their respective families. The Frtnc 
 and English languages are taught with equal care by masters of both 
 origins. Boys are received for vacation. 
 
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 11 
 
 Terms: 
 
 Board and Tuition, per month . . 
 
 Bed 
 
 Washing . . . • • • ■ • • • • • 
 Piano .....•.••••• 
 Violin ...... • ' 
 
 |io.oo 
 1. 00 
 1. 00 
 2.50 
 2.00 
 
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 The Central Lumber Yard 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1871. 
 
 COR. DORCHESTER and ST. CHftRLES-BORROMMEE ST8.. 
 
 M alnogany , 
 
 . Quartered Oak, 
 
 Quartered Sycamore, 
 
 Walnut, Cherry, 
 
 and all HarwoodQ, 
 
 Kancy Wood», Etc. 
 
 KILN-DRIED MAPLB TLOORINO. 
 
 Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Lath and Shingles. 
 
 DIMENSION TIMBER CUT TO ORDER. 
 
 We carry 
 
 a large stock of 
 
 DRESSED LUHBER °^ "^ 
 
 All orders by mail promptly filled with special care. 
 
 ds. 
 
 John A. Bulmer & Co. 
 
 Montreal. 
 
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 First-class Liquors at LABELLES HOTEL, B acl< Rive r. 
 
 ON THE RIVlfiRE-DES-PRAIRlES 
 
 PHte©ir|e f el©(ii^iH 
 
 ILuncb anb 1' 
 
 IRoom 
 
 opposite Peloquin Depot. 
 
 Sault-au-Recollet. 
 
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 Bell Telephone 4S66. • 
 
 • coNNtCTioN Fw«e ron montrial, 
 
 Office and Works: 
 
 COTE-I3ES-NEIGES, 
 
 MONTREAL. 
 
 vJ. Bruinbt, 
 
 MANUFACTURER AND 
 IMPORTER OF 
 
 Building Granite 
 
 AND ALL KINDS OF 
 
 Cemetery Works, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail. 
 
 GOTE-DBS-INEIGES, 
 
 MoiNTRBAb. 
 
 F»roijrietor of. . . 
 
 RED, PINK and 
 .♦♦ GREY GRANITE 
 QUARRIES. 
 
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 A Special attention is given to finish Sculpture, etc., 
 by the Pneumatic Machine. 
 
 Estimtite» yjiveri on appliccition. 
 
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 E. C. MOUNT & CO 
 
 Pl umbers, Gas and Steamfiiters, 
 .... TinQmiths and Roofers 
 
 ...Specialties: 
 
 Sanitary Plumbing. 
 Hot Water Heating, 
 AND LEAD Burning. 
 
 766 CRAIG STREET, 
 
 Montreal. 
 
 Teleptione laos- 
 
 BRANCH : 
 
 31 COTE ST. ANTOINE ROAD, WESTMOUNT, ^llfsT' 
 
 Day and Night Atteridauce. Work personally Superintended. 
 
 of all 
 ds. 
 
 MOUNT BROS. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Electrical Supplies kIh 
 
 REPAIRS EXECUTED 
 
 766 CRAIG STREKT 
 
 Teleplione 1265. 
 
 Montreal. 
 
 Specialties: 
 
 WAREHOUSE TELEPHONE, 
 WATCHMAN'S CLOCKS, 
 ANNUNCIATORS and BELLS, 
 ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRING and FITTINGS. 
 
 AU work personally and protnptly attended to. Charges moderate. 
 Ler. TaKen at 3i COTE ST. ANTO.NE ROAD. WESTMOUNT. 
 
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 McCASKILL, DOUQALL & CO., 
 
 BEST CARRIAGE VARNISH. 
 
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 s. 
 
6o 
 
 Laurie Engine Go. 
 
 ENGINEERS and CONTRACTORS, 
 
 ST. CATHERINE ST., EAST, MONTREAL. 
 
 
 ■sir- 
 
 
 V Engineers. Founders. ^.--J 
 i loiziimaSrCatbermeSlree?' 
 
 Complete Motive Plants, Etc., Etc. 
 
 Improved. Go r I iss Dngiiies. 
 
 SI^r^So?S FEED-WIITER HERTERS i PURIFIERS. 
 
 Heavy Fly- Wheels a Specialty, 
 
 Sole Ageiits in Provinceof Quebecj br NORTHEY CO., Ltd. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF 
 
 RUMPS. CONDENSERS AND HYDRAULIC MACHINERY. 
 
 Sol 
 Ca 
 
 ?u\dffortS Holly Gravity Return System. 
 
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 McCASKiLL, DOUQALL & CO., 
 
 . . . Best House. School and Church Varnishes. 
 
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 SACRED HEART CONVENT, SAULT-AU-RECOLLET. 
 
 Established 1860. 
 
 City Kxpre.^e and 
 Baggage Tranefer. 
 
 PIANOS, FURNITURE, BAGGAGE & PARCELS 
 
 Removed to and from any part of the City, 
 Depots and Steamboats. 
 
 SHARPE & CURTIN, 
 
 Proprietors. 
 
 Office, 349 St. James St. 
 
 MONTREAL. 
 
 Telephone 1865. 
 
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 HcCASKILL, DOUQALL & CO., 
 
 --^ — ^ BEST RAILWAY VARNISH. 
 
 Wm. Rutherford & Sons, 
 
 nanufacturers of 
 
 »J .IHf^ 
 
 
 SASHES, DOORS 
 
 and BLINDS 
 
 STAIR WORK and TURNING. 
 
 PREPARFD LUMBER iJMiirm 
 
 Packing Ga^e^i^v^Boxe^ 
 
 KINDLING WOOD AND SAW DUST. 
 
 85-95 Atwater Aveniae, 
 
 Near Notre Dame Street, 
 
 Bell Telephone 
 No. 8154. 
 
 Montreal. 
 
 
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 63 
 
 McCASKILL, DOUQALL & CO., 
 
 . . . Best Piano and Furniture Varnishes. 
 
 ON THE KOAD TO BACK RIVER. 
 
 
 
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 r<li:|ii|i:IMii|ii:|<'l 1 li 
 
 ^^^^SS 
 
 f UtlDERTAKER^ 
 
 VICTORIA SQUARE 
 
 ^^^^SS 
 
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 McCASKILL, DOUQALL & CO., 
 
 . . . Best Boat Varnish and Bicycle Enamel. 
 
 E. D. ^WINTLE, 
 
 IReal Estate Hoent. 
 
 North British Chambers, No. II Hospital St., Montreal. 
 
 SUBURBAN PROPERTIES BOUGHT and SOLD. 
 MONEY TO LOAN ON MORTGAGES. 
 
 Ganadidn Rand Drill Go. 
 
 REPRESENTING IN CANADA 
 
 The Dorner & Duttqn 
 Manufacturing Co. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OK 
 
 Electric Motor and Ti:ail Car Trucks. 
 
 MOTORS and TRAIL CAR WH^mS, 
 
 AXLES, JOURNAL BOXES, 
 
 TRACK CLEANERS, 
 
 GEARS and PINIONS, 
 
 TURN and TRANSFER TABLES, 
 
 ELECTRIC CAR HEATERS, 
 
 SPECIAL MACHINERY, Etc. 
 
 516 Board of Trade Building, 
 IMOMTREAb. 
 
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 Go to Labelle Hotel, Back River, for Solid Comfort. 
 
 Did vou notice 
 
 That all ihe cars of the Montreal Park ^S: Island 
 Ry. Co. are equipped with handsome and handy 
 
 Portable Telephones? 
 
 They were specially designed and bnilt by 
 
 NEbS, McLAREN & BATE, 
 
 MANriACI IKKKS Cir 
 
 Main Line and Office Telephones for Long and Short Distance. 
 
 Blectriail vSiippIies of all Kinds 
 
 746 CRAIG STREET, 
 MONTREAL. 
 
 Canada Switch & Spring Go., Ltd. 
 
 MaiHifactiireis of 
 
 Trucks for Electric Cars, 
 
 FOR STEAM 
 OR ELECTRIC 
 RAILWAYS. 
 
 ISTHRSECTIOSS, Frogs, Mvifc/it'S, 
 Wroui-ln Iron Turn Hackles, Htecl Tnwks 
 for hlevirir linilwnys, Truck Tools, Pressetl f 
 vSte<-; Forfiiriiis of nil Kinds, Interlocking ^ 
 Signals. . »,, ^ ■ 
 
 SPKISaS for Knilwiiy and hlectric 
 Cars, Engines and Machines of all Kmdf. 
 
 GRRY IRON CASTINGS for ELECTRIC ROADS a SPECIALTY. 
 
 Stefl Caslitivs up to (3) five tons in weight. 
 
 The Canada Switch & Spring Co., Ltd., 
 
 Works : Canal, St. Etienne and Conde St.. Pointe St. Charles, MOWTREAt. 
 
 GURD'S 
 
 MOTTO-"THE BEST." 
 
 GINGER ALE, 
 SODA WATER, 
 
 APPhE NECTAR, 
 
 (REAM SODA, Etc. 
 
 To »)e olitfiitted from <iU fifst-cli»»« Orocera, 
 Hotels* .-itid l<e«t,iiMMi-it». 
 
 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze Medals and 13 Diplomas 
 Awarded for Superior Excellence. 
 
 CHARLES GURD Sc CO,, 
 
 MONTREAL,. 
 
The 
 
 Royal * Electric 
 Gonipany, 
 
 Western Office : 
 
 TORONTO. ONT MONTREAL, Que. 
 
 MAKERS OF 
 
 Electrical ♦ Machinery 
 
 and 
 
 Apparatus... 
 
 FOR 
 
 Electric Railways, 
 
 Incandescent Lighting 
 Arc Lighting, 
 
 Power Transmission, 
 
 Mining and Mill Work. 
 
 SOLE CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS 
 
 , OK 
 
 The S.K.G.TWO PHASE SYSTEM 
 
 Incandescent Lights, Arc Lights and Power 
 supplied from the same Dynamo 
 over Long Distances.