Chapter XLI: Transportation by Road

I

THE ANCIENT AND MODERN POSTAL SERVICE OF MONTREAL

ANCIENT ROADS--THE “GRAND VOYER”--GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT--THE
EVOLUTION OF ROADS--“POST” MASTERS RECOGNIZED IN
1780--THE EARLY POSTAL SYSTEM OF MONTREAL AND BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN--BURLINGTON THE TERMINUS--EARLY LETTER RATES--MAIL
ADVERTISEMENTS--THE QUEBEC TO MONTREAL POSTAL SERVICE--EARLY
POSTOFFICE IN MONTREAL--OCEAN AND RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE--THE
PRESENT POSTOFFICE--ITS HISTORICAL TABLETS BY FLAXMAN--THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM--THE POSTMASTERS OF MONTREAL.

II

STREET TRANSPORTATION

MODERNIZING MONTREAL

MONTREAL IN 1861--THE STREET RAILWAY MOVEMENT--THE “MONTREAL
CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY” CHARTERED--THE HISTORY OF THE
COMPANY--ITS FIRST PROMOTERS--EIGHT PASSENGER CARS, SIX MILES,
HORSE SERVICE IN 1861--THE OPENING UP OF THE STREETS--WINTER
SERVICE OF SLEIGHS--1892 THE BEGINNING OF ELECTRIC ERA--THE
CONVERSION OF THE SYSTEM INTO ELECTRIC TRACTION--THE GRADUAL
GROWTH OF THE COMPANY 623

CHAPTER XLII

1760-1841

CITY IMPROVEMENT FROM THE CESSION

UNDER JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

EARLY STREET REGULATIONS--A PICTURE OF MONTREAL HOUSES IN
1795--FURTHER STREETS OPENED--A “CITY PLAN” MOVEMENT IN
1799--HOUSES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY--MAP
OF 1801--CITY WALLS TO BE DEMOLISHED--CITADEL HILL
REMOVED--FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS--ROAD COMMISSIONERS--PICTURE
OF 1819--IMPROVEMENTS DURING THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OF THE
JUSTICES AND THE MUNICIPALITY--PICTURE OF 1839 BY BOSWORTH 635

CHAPTER XLIII

1841-1867

CITY IMPROVEMENT AFTER THE UNION

UNDER THE MUNICIPALITY

GREAT STRIDES AT THE UNION--THE EARLY MARKET PLACES--THE
BONSECOURS MARKET--OTHER MARKETS--PUBLIC PLACES--THE EARLY
SQUARES--PRESENT PARKS--THE EARLY CEMETERIES--THE FIRST JEWISH
CEMETERY--THE DORCHESTER STREET PROTESTANT CEMETERY--DOMINION
SQUARE--MOUNT ROYAL--COTE DES NEIGES--OTHER CEMETERIES--GENERAL
CITY IMPROVEMENT--AREAS OF PUBLIC PLACES 641