Chapter XXX: National Origins of the Population (2)

The nature of the Society in its early years was largely religious and most of its gatherings were held on Sundays. Its rooms were in the old Y.M.C.A. Building on Victoria Square. This edifice was considered one of the landmarks both for architectural beauty and position among the great buildings of the city in those days. The Society justified its existence in many ways, and proved a necessary and helpful anchorage, particularly in bringing together the sons and daughters of Wales, more especially at such times as the Patron’s Saint Day, an event of importance, and a day dear to the Welshman’s heart, all over the world, known as “St. David’s Day,” always held on the first day of March; the time of the “Congresses of Bards and Contests of Minstrels,” and the feast day of one of the guardians of the nation’s ideals and inspirer of its genius.

However, the element of decay entered into the vitals of the old Society and it ceased to exist for some time.

About twelve years ago, the present Welsh Society was founded, known as the “St. David’s Welsh Society.” It was incorporated in 1910 on a far broader basis than the old Society. Its aims are, the bringing together of men and women of Welsh parentage or associated by marriage with Welsh people, to create an interest in the study of Welsh music, literature, folklore, poetry and all subjects of interest to the race and a culture of a true Canadian nationality among the descendants of this ancient and historic people.

The honorary president since its inception, with the exception of one year, is Mr. Lansing Lewis, D.C.L., a son of the president of the old Welsh Union, the exception being the year the late Mr. Samuel Carsley held the office.

The first president was Mr. Richard Roberts, L. Mus., the first vice president, Mr. James Kirkham (Iago Tegai), the latter, in consort with Mr. Evan Jones and Mr. Jos. Jenkins, B.A., being among the most important moving spirits in the organization of the Society.

The following gentlemen filled the position of president:

Mr. Evan Jones, Mr. Jos. Jenkins, B.A., B.C.L., Mr. M.E. Pritchard, Mr. W.G. Bithell, and the present holder of the position is Mr. Wm. Evans, merchant.

The Welsh people are renowned for their intense patriotism and loyalty, and by training and temperament make good citizens, invariably lending their influence and support to every effort to advance the interests of the cities and towns wherein they may chance to reside and it is estimated that there are in Montreal, at the present time, from one to two thousand Welsh people. Some of them are large employers of Canadian labor, and the majority of them are interested in the manifold forces at work of beautifying and making known the varied advantages, present and prospective of this regal and beautiful metropolis of the Dominion of Canada.

THE NEWFOUNDLAND SOCIETY

The youngest National Society formed on lines similar to the foregoing was founded in September, 1911.

Its presidents have been as follows:

1911-12 F.M. Renouf
1913 C.A. Peters, M.D.
1914 W.A. Gaden

The object of the Society was to encourage Newfoundlanders who were migrating to other lands to settle in Canada under the British flag and to welcome them when in the city with information to enable them to succeed here.

A great opportunity offered itself to the members in 1914, when on the occasion of the great Newfoundland sealing disaster in March of that year, it organized a relief fund in the city and realized a sum of $13,000, which was forwarded to the Newfoundland Government.

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT

The Jewish community, whose earliest settlers and prominent citizens will be noticed elsewhere, has not been regarded as possessing a national society as such, although the Baron de Hirsch Institute, now long founded, has been the centre of charitable activities for Jewish immigrants. Of late years, however, there has arisen a movement which may have a place here.

Montreal is the head centre of the Zionist Movement in the Dominion, and the executive offices of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada are situated in this city. No Jewish body in this country counts as large a membership or is as thoroughly representative of the entire Jewish population of Canada as the Zionist Movement, for it has its branches in every city, town and village from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The first Zionist society was founded in Montreal in January, 1898. Among its founders were Clarence I. de Sola, Rev. A. Ashinsky, H. Bernstein, L. Aronson, Lazarus Cohen, Jacob Cohen, Leon Goldman, J.S. Leo, Rev. Meldola de Sola, Dr. D.A. Hart and Moses Shapiro. From small beginnings this movement, having for its object the re-establishment of the Hebrew nation in Palestine, spread with phenomenal rapidity, and within one year from its foundation so numerous had the branches become that they were formed into a federation under a central federal executive. This was in December, 1899. The enormous strides which the organization has made is shown in its ever-increasing revenue and membership from year to year. Its conventions have become one of the striking events of Jewish communal life in this country. At the eleventh convention, held in Toronto in December, 1910, the Canadian Zionist Federation started the undertaking of establishing a Jewish agricultural colony in Palestine with funds entirely contributed by members of the movement in Canada. This enterprise was carried through so successfully that at the thirteenth convention, held in Montreal in 1913, the president was able to announce that the establishment of the first colony had been completed and the work of establishing a second colony was begun. This convention was also rendered noteworthy by President de Sola’s plea for the restoration of the Jewish Sanhedrin in Palestine, a plea which attracted world-wide notice and received the approval of many of the leading Jews throughout the world. The present executive of the Zionist Federation counts among its officers some of the most capable and active workers in the Jewish community of Canada. To mention them all would entail the giving of a long list, but among the Montrealers, in addition to those already mentioned above, are A. Levin, who is treasurer; M. Markus, Rev. Nathan Gordon, Rev. H. Abramowitz, Joseph Fineberg, L. Heillig, Mrs. Clarence de Sola, Mrs. J.S. Leo, and H. Lang.

The first Jew known to have settled in Montreal was Lazarus
David, who came to this city in 1759. He was connected with the
army, but on the close of the war settled in Montreal and became
an extensive owner of real estate. He was a man of public spirit
who took a prominent part in civic affairs in those early days.
He was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1734 and his name appears in
a list of residents published in Montreal in 1763. He continued
to play a prominent part, in what was then but a little town,
until his death on the 22d of October, 1776, and the headstone
which marks the place of his interment is still to be seen in
the cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews on Mount Royal.
Very shortly after the arrival of Lazarus David there also
came to Montreal Uriah Judah and other members of the Judah
family, Emanuel de Cordova, Hananiel Garcia, Isaac Miranda,
Judah Elvada, Uriel Moresco, Abraham Franks, Simon Levy, Levy
Solomons and Fernandez da Fonseca. They were joined by another
band of settlers, among whom were included Abram Franks, David
Salesby Franks, Isaac Miranda, Jacob de Maurera, Andrew Hays,
Levy Solomons and Joseph Bindona. De Cordova, Garcia and Miranda
held military offices. Nearly all of these men belonged to
distinguished families of Jews who had come to America originally
from Spain and Portugal and known among the Hebrews as Sephardin
and were members of the first Jewish Synagogue.

Although the members of this congregation were in those days but
small in number, they produced a remarkably large number of men
who took a very prominent part in public affairs. At the time
that Lazarus David was settling in Montreal there had arrived in
Canada Commissary General Aaron Hart, who was on the staff of
General Amherst’s invading army and who took an important part
in the operations which led to the British Conquest. He was born
in London in 1724 and had married a member of the Judah family,
and after serving under Amherst he afterwards joined the troops
under General Haldimand, stationed at Three Rivers, and when that
city fell into the hands of the British he took up his residence
there. After the war he was created seigneur of Bécancour for his
services, and became the owner of six other seigneuries. Another
man of prominence was David Salesby Franks. He and his father,
Abraham Franks, first appear as residents of Quebec in 1767 and
afterwards they settled in Montreal. David Salesby Franks was
president of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue previous to
1775. He agitated for the establishment of a House of Assembly
and the establishment of representative government in Canada.
Business affairs, however, drew him to Philadelphia and New York
and when the American Revolutionary War broke out he espoused the
cause of the American colonists and became major of a regiment.
In May, 1778, he became aide-de-camp to Major Benedict Arnold.
When in 1780 the affair of West Point occurred and Arnold fled
to escape punishment for his treason to the Revolutionary cause,
Major Franks was arrested on suspicion and courtmartialed, but
was honourably acquitted and was afterwards placed on the staff
of George Washington, under whom he fought during the rest of
the war. He played a prominent part in the negotiations for
peace between the American colonists and Great Britain and was
sent on a mission in this connection to Europe in 1781, and in
1784 he was again sent to Europe by the United States Congress
with the triplicate copies for the ratification of the definite
treaty of peace. He assisted Benjamin Franklin and Mr. Jay in
these negotiations. He was afterwards appointed American consul
at Marseilles and he was one of the commissioners of the American
Government who negotiated a treaty of peace and commerce with
Morocco in 1787. He was one of the marshals who inaugurated
George Washington as first President of the United States.
There were other members of the Franks family who remained in
Montreal and who fought on the side of the British against the
American colonists. A sister of David Salesby Franks married the
Levy Solomons who is mentioned above and who was at that time
president of the Montreal Jewish Congregation “Shearith Israel.”
One of their daughters, Rachel Solomon, became the wife of Henry
Joseph, who in his day was one of the most prominent Jews in
Canada. Henry Joseph was born in England in the latter part of
the eighteenth century. He was nephew of Commissary General Aaron
Hart and came to Canada when but a youth and entered the army,
being attached to the troops that formed the garrison of Fort
William Henry at the mouth of the Richelieu River. He afterwards
became interested in the Northwest Trading Company and eventually
retired from the army to develop trade from Hudson’s Bay to
Quebec and Montreal. His headquarters were for a long while at
Berthier, but he perceived even in that early day that Montreal
was destined to become a place of importance, and he removed
his home to this city in his latter days. It is claimed that
he was the actual founder of Canada’s merchant marine service,
for he was the owner of a line of ships that were the first to
be registered as Canadian vessels engaged exclusively in direct
traffic between Canada and England. He rejoined the army when
the War of 1812-14 broke out between England and the United
States and fought for the British crown in many engagements.
Associated with him as a Hudson’s Bay trader was Jacob Franks, a
member of the family above mentioned, who had married a sister of
Mrs. Henry Joseph and who was also noted as a very enterprising
northwest and Hudson’s Bay trader. He was the founder of Green
Bay, Wisconsin, and Jacob Astor was originally employed by him
there. Another very influential member of the early Jewish
community in this city was David David, the eldest son of Lazarus
David. He was born in Montreal in 1764 and took a prominent part
in almost everything which affected the interests of Montreal in
his day. Possessed of considerable wealth he employed his means
in works of benevolence, and his generous assistance to the early
philanthropic societies of Montreal is on record. He was either
president or director of a number of institutions. It was due
largely to his initiative that the Bank of Montreal was founded
in 1817, and he was elected a director on its first regular
board on the 27th of February, 1818, and continued to hold this
office until his death in 1824. He was also president of the
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Montreal for many years.

In addition to members of the David and Joseph families already
mentioned, who fought for the British flag in the War of 1812-14,
the names of a number of other Hebrew citizens are to be found
also participating on the British side in that struggle, and
there was also a large number of Canadian Jews who fought on the
loyalist side in the rebellion of 1837-38, notably Colonel David,
Aaron Philip Hart, Jacob Henry Joseph and several members of the
Hays family.

The exact legal status of the Jews in Canada was not made very
clear at an early date by any definite enactments, and for long
they labored under the disability of not having the right of
sitting in Parliament. This question was brought to a definite
test by the election in 1807 of Mr. Ezekiel Hart, second son of
Commissariat General Hart, as member of the Legislative Assembly
for Three Rivers. When he entered the House he was required
to take the oath in the usual form “on the true faith of a
Christian” and upon his declining to do this on account of his
Jewish faith the majority of the members objected to his taking
his seat and declared the seat vacant. Appealing again to his
constituents he was once more elected by a heavy majority, but
again the House refused to permit him to take his seat, and after
a stormy session a bill was pushed through to its second reading
to disqualify Jews from being eligible to sit as members of the
House of Assembly. This aroused the indignation of Sir James
Craig, who was then governor, and he angrily dissolved the House
and prevented the bill from passing. After a long struggle an act
was introduced and passed in 1831 by which Jews were accorded
the fullest civil rights in Canada and were placed upon an equal
footing with all other citizens of the land. Ezekiel Hart was
deservedly popular and it is stated that the opposition which
was shown to his taking his seat was due more to the political
partisanship of his political opponents than to any real feeling
of religious intolerance. It is worthy of note that Canada
extended full political rights to the Jews more than a quarter of
a century earlier than the mother country.

Of the later Hebrews may be mentioned Moses J. Hays, who was one
of the most active men engaged in municipal affairs in Montreal
in the early part of the nineteenth century, and to his energy
the city was indebted for many civic improvements. It was he who
established the first Montreal waterworks. He also reorganized
Montreal’s police force, of which he was the chief commissioner,
and he was the builder of the Hays House, the leading hotel of
Montreal in its day, situated on what was then known as Dalhousie
Square, but which has since been swept away to make room for the
Place Viger entrance of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Abraham de Sola, the rabbi attached to the Shearith Israel
Congregation, was recognized as in the first rank of Jewish
leaders in the cabinet. He was elected in 1848 professor
of Semitic literature and oriental languages of the McGill
University.

During the period of Doctor De Sola’s administration the Spanish
and Portuguese Jewish Congregation of the Shearith Israel
Synagogue, formed by the first Jew settlers in 1768, counted
among its members a number of men who were very prominent in
Montreal’s social, intellectual and commercial life. Amongst
these was Dr. A.H. David, a grandson of Lazarus David, who,
besides being a prominent physician, was dean of the medical
faculty of Bishop’s College. Samuel Benjamin, Goodman Benjamin
and William Benjamin were three brothers who were all very well
known in Montreal between the ’40s and ’60s in the past century.
Samuel Benjamin took a very prominent part in civic affairs and
was for a long while member of the city council, being the first
Israelite to attain that position in Montreal. Four sons of
Henry Joseph, Jacob Henry, Abraham, Jesse and Gershom, were all
prominent. Probably there was no citizen of Montreal better known
in his day and associated with more of our public activities than
Jesse Joseph. He was either president or director of over fifteen
different companies or institutions.

Another member of the Congregation of Shearith Israel was Isidor
Ascher, who earned a respectable reputation as a poet. He was the
author of “Voices from the Hearth” which Longfellow so highly
commended, and of a number of other works, both in verse and
in prose. His father, G.I. Ascher, was long a patriarchial and
familiar figure in Montreal life in the nineteenth century, for
he reached the venerable age of ninety-six years. Alexander
Levy, Jacob Levy, Samuel Israel Rubenstein, Edward Cohen and
Lewis A. Hart were well-known officers of the congregation in
more recent years. The last mentioned was for some years lecturer
on notarial practice at McGill University.

Dr. Abraham de Sola died in 1882, and was succeeded by his eldest
son, Meldola de Sola.

The Jews have always shown an interest in both civic and national
politics, and at the present moment there are two Jewish citizens
who are members of the city council.

OTHER NATIONAL ORIGINS OF THE PEOPLE

The foregoing do not exhaust the list of Societies for national and racial conservation. There are others such as the “Société Suisse de Montréal,” “The Scandinavian National Society,” “The Jersey (Channel Island) Society of Canada” and others. Suffice it to say that Montreal is now veritably cosmopolitan as the census of 1911 will demonstrate.

CENSUS OF MONTREAL

ORIGINS OF THE PEOPLE BY SUB-DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF MONTREAL
FOR 1911

LEGEND:

British
E = English;
I = Irish;
S = Scotch;
O = Other.

Fr. = French
Ge. = German
A-H. = Austro-Hungarian
Be. = Belgian
BR. = Bulgarian and Rumanian
Ch. = Chinese

Districts and British
Sub-districts /--------^----------\
En. Ir. Sc. Oth. Fr. Ge. A-H Be. B.R. Ch.
St. Raphaël de l’Ile
Bizard 36 1 -- -- 549 -- -- -- -- --
Summerlea t 51 8 13 -- 82 -- -- -- -- --
Beaconsfield t 129 16 16 -- 206 1 2 -- -- --
Dorval t 220 101 139 1 479 8 1 1 -- --
Lachine t 2,316 364 554 163 6,593 35 21 7 13 15
Montreal W-O t 302 121 212 4 44 11 -- -- -- --
Notre-Dame de Grâces 1,538 310 257 -- 2,735 23 136 5 1 --
Outremont t 1,593 447 575 25 1,911 40 2 5 3 8
Pointe Claire t 147 22 55 2 549 5 -- -- -- 1
Ste. Anne de Bellevue t 127 46 77 3 1,141 -- -- 1 -- 3
St. Laurent t 29 10 36 -- 1,759 1 -- 10 -- 3
Verdun t 3,860 892 922 10 5,534 72 -- 95 -- 10
Ville Emard 674 69 41 3 5,119 16 -- 44 -- 1
Youville 197 60 74 -- 1,962 11 7 4 8 --
Cartierville v 41 24 4 -- 817 3 -- -- -- --
Côte des Neiges 351 129 104 1 1,797 9 1 -- -- 2
Côte St. Luc v 58 -- -- -- 237 -- -- -- -- --
Ste. Geneviève v 3 -- -- -- 609 -- -- -- -- --
St. Pierre aux Liens 208 120 178 2 1,480 4 49 -- 88 3
Senneville v 48 12 23 1 326 -- -- 6 -- --

MONTREAL-STE. ANNE 4,846 6,549 1,311 51 6,539 136 155 8 6 47
Centre ward 17 19 8 -- 395 -- -- -- -- 1
Ste. Anne ward 4,773 6,466 1,288 48 6,082 134 155 8 6 39
West ward 56 64 15 3 62 2 -- -- -- 7

MONTREAL-ST. ANTOINE 13,355 8,996 6,974 166 14,230 696 37 75 6 236
St. Joseph ward 3,184 3,042 1,128 13 8,636 178 7 26 -- 34
St. Georges ward 4,741 2,975 2,855 70 1,688 259 11 29 2 137
St. Andrews ward 5,430 2,979 2,991 83 3,906 259 19 20 4 65

MONTREAL-ST. JACQUES 1,246 915 414 2 38,384 117 10 163 11 87
East ward 141 69 19 -- 2,785 1 -- 3 -- 13
Lafontaine ward 802 565 306 -- 21,620 76 5 84 11 40
St. Jacques ward 303 281 89 2 13,979 40 5 76 -- 34

MONTREAL-ST. LAURENT 6,751 4,996 2,791 77 18,307 400 240 141 61 460
St. Laurent ward 4,507 3,792 2,353 74 4,785 279 145 31 53 334
St. Louis ward 2,244 1,204 438 3 13,522 121 95 110 8 126

MONTREAL-ST. MARIE 3,500 2,642 997 5 45,941 133 34 35 11 42
Papineau ward 2,697 2,086 732 4 32,420 102 12 22 1 30
Ste. Marie ward 803 556 265 1 13,521 31 22 13 10 12

HOCHELAGA 15,837 6,217 6,729 108 43,032 524 63 20 7 148
Ste. Cunégonde ward 1,519 581 390 -- 8,285 18 10 -- -- 25
St. Gabriel ward 4,875 2,625 1,888 35 8,690 160 37 4 -- 26
St. Henri ward 3,463 804 640 1 24,734 95 4 10 7 28
Westmount c 5,980 2,207 3,811 72 1,323 251 12 6 -- 69

JACQUES-CARTIER 14,001 3,303 3,606 216 40,920 289 236 215 118 --
Côte St. Paul 996 155 54 -- 2,069 21 -- 6 -- --
Notre Dame des 71 221 7 -- 593 2 -- 6 -- --
Neiges W
Présentation de la
Ste. Vierge 8 1 1 -- 210 -- -- -- -- --
Saints-Anges de Lachine 195 82 83 -- 415 15 -- 8 -- --
Ste. Anne du Bout de
l’Ile 151 25 51 -- 557 3 -- -- -- --
Ste. Geneviève 18 3 1 -- 1,045 7 -- -- -- --
St. Joachim de la
Pointe Claire 142 8 7 -- 647 -- -- -- -- --
St. Laurent 492 56 122 1 1,455 2 17 17 5 4

CENSUS OF MONTREAL

ORIGINS OF THE PEOPLE BY SUB-DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF MONTREAL
FOR 1911

Dutch = Du.
Greek = Gr.
Hindu = Hi.
Indian = In.
Italian = Ital.
Japanese = Jp.
Jewish = Jew.

Districts and
Sub-districts Du. Gr. Hi. In. Ital. Jp. Jew.

MONTREAL-ST. ANNE 5 18 -- 1 201 2 913

MONTREAL-ST. ANTOINE 61 114 -- 7 1,116 2 1,288
Centre ward -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Ste. Anne ward 5 18 -- 1 201 2 905
West ward -- -- -- -- -- -- 8
St. Joseph ward 19 54 -- 1 688 -- 504
St. Georges ward 26 58 -- 4 271 2 436
St. Andrews ward 16 2 -- 2 157 -- 348

MONTREAL-ST. JACQUES 7 45 -- 3 1,115 -- 549
East ward 1 5 -- -- 48 -- 1

MONTREAL-ST. JACQUES
Lafontaine ward 5 8 -- 2 857 -- 408
St. Jacques ward 1 32 -- 1 210 -- 140

MONTREAL-ST. LAURENT 19 292 -- 3 837 -- 19,256
St. Laurent ward 13 179 -- 2 205 -- 7,733
St. Louis ward 6 113 -- 1 632 -- 11,523

MONTREAL STE. MARIE 4 24 -- 2 439 -- 356
Papineau ward -- 21 -- -- 400 -- 306
Ste. Marie ward 4 3 -- 2 39 -- 50

HOCHELAGA 79 17 -- 11 315 -- 589
Ste. Cunégonde ward 12 7 -- 3 163 -- 102
St. Gabriel ward 23 -- -- -- 8 -- 56
St. Henri ward 4 10 -- 8 143 -- 50
Westmount c. 40 -- -- -- 1 -- 381

JACQUES-CARTIER -- -- -- -- 7 -- --
Côte St. Paul -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Notre Dame des Neiges W -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Présentation de la Ste.
Vierge -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Saints-Anges de Lachine -- -- -- 2 9 -- 13
Ste. Anne du Bout de l’Ile -- -- -- -- -- -- 8
Ste. Geneviève -- -- -- -- -- -- --
St. Joachim de la Pointe
Claire -- -- -- -- -- -- --
St Laurent 7 -- 2 6 -- 9 4
St. Raphaël de l’Ile Bizard -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Summerlea t -- -- -- -- 2 -- 3
Beaconsfield t -- -- -- -- -- -- 2
Dorval t -- -- -- -- 15 -- 11
Lachine t 1 14 -- 1 134 -- 342
Montréal W-O t 1 -- -- -- -- -- --
Notre-Dame de Grâces -- -- -- 1 130 -- 4
Outremont t 3 -- -- -- 63 -- 41
Pointe Claire t -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Ste. Anne de Bellevue t -- 1 -- -- -- -- 9
St. Laurent t -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Verdun t 3 1 -- -- 3 -- 67
Ville Emard 5 5 -- -- 158 -- --
Youville -- 2 -- -- 56 -- 2
Cartierville v -- -- 1 -- -- -- 10
Côte des Neiges 2 -- -- -- 9 -- 23
Côte St. Luc v -- -- -- -- 8 -- --
Ste. Geneviève v -- -- -- -- -- -- --
St. Pierre aux Liens v 1 -- -- -- 3 -- 5
Senneville v 2 -- -- -- -- -- --

CENSUS OF MONTREAL

ORIGINS OF THE PEOPLE BY SUB-DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF MONTREAL
FOR 1911

Negro = Ne.
Polish = Po.
Russian = Ru.
Scandinavian = Sc.
Swiss = Sw.
Unspecified = Unsp.

Districts and
Sub-districts Ne. Po. Ru. Sc. SW. Unsp.

MONTREAL-ST. ANNE 1 496 243 58 4 86

MONTREAL-ST. ANTOINE 189 84 62 156 53 735
Centre ward -- -- 17 -- -- 1
Ste. Anne ward 1 496 226 57 4 77
West ward -- -- -- 1 -- 8
St. Joseph ward 133 53 13 38 2 126
St. Georges ward 2 6 4 50 34 184
St. Andrews ward 54 25 45 68 17 425

MONTREAL-ST. JACQUES 2 25 63 37 24 838
East ward -- -- 8 7 2 458

MONTREAL-ST. JACQUES
Lafontaine ward 2 5 40 7 13 170
St. Jacques ward -- 20 15 23 9 210

MONTREAL-ST. LAURENT 19 94 109 106 36 865
St. Laurent ward 14 32 84 83 17 324
St. Louis ward 5 62 25 23 19 541

MONTREAL STE. MARIE 4 271 280 16 12 162
Papineau ward -- 85 50 9 7 95
Ste. Marie ward 4 186 230 7 5 67

HOCHELAGA 47 318 100 127 55 706
Ste. Cunégonde ward 2 2 8 5 10 32
St. Gabriel ward -- 237 63 48 13 173
St. Henri ward 38 77 23 38 2 156
Westmount c. 7 2 6 36 20 345

JACQUES-CARTIER -- -- -- 6 -- 5
Côte St. Paul -- -- -- -- -- --
Notre Dame des Neiges W -- -- -- -- -- --
Présentation de la Ste.
Vierge -- 1 -- -- -- --
Saints-Anges de Lachine -- 2 1 1 2 --
Ste. Anne du Bout de l’Ile -- 10 -- -- -- 8
Ste. Geneviève -- -- -- -- -- 1
St. Joachim de la Pointe
Claire -- -- -- -- -- 1
St Laurent 4 16 5 -- -- 8
St. Raphaël de l’Ile Bizard -- -- -- -- -- --
Summerlea t -- -- 2 -- -- --
Beaconsfield t -- -- -- 2 -- 1
Dorval t -- -- -- 8 -- 21
Lachine t 1 34 18 6 1 66
Montréal W-O t -- -- -- -- -- 8
Notre-Dame de Grâces -- 8 11 11 -- 47
Outremont t -- 1 8 7 16 72
Pointe Claire t -- -- -- 4 2 6
Ste. Anne de Bellevue t -- -- -- -- -- 8
St. Laurent t -- -- -- -- -- 12
Verdun t 1 15 2 51 8 83
Ville Emard -- 10 10 5 -- 19
Youville -- -- 1 5 -- 5
Cartierville v -- -- -- -- 1 4
Côte des Neiges -- -- -- 2 2 12
Côte St. Luc v -- -- -- -- -- --
Ste. Geneviève v -- -- -- -- -- --
St. Pierre aux Liens v 2 33 15 3 -- 7
Senneville v -- -- -- -- -- --

FOOTNOTES:

[1] January 24, 1858, St. Jean Baptiste Festival was kept as a national fête in Toronto by French-Canadians

[2] This hotel was finally burnt on March 17, 1873.

[3] This plate with the documents contained in the box of the corner-stone, was taken out of the ruins of St. Patrick’s Hall by Mr. B. Tansey in 1872 and is now in his possession.