Chapter VII: Foreword: Marked Progress General--The Embryonic

COSMOPOLIS--THE DEEPENING OF LAKE ST. PETER--FOUNDATION OF
PHILANTHROPIES--LIVING CHEAP--THE MONTREAL DISPENSARY--RASCO’S
HOTEL AND CHARLES DICKENS--PRIVATE THEATRICALS--MONTREAL
AS SEEN BY “BOZ”--DOLLY’S AND THE GOSSIPS--THE MUNICIPAL
ACT--ELECTION RIOTS--LITERARY AND UPLIFT MOVEMENTS--THE
RAILWAY ERA COMMENCES--THE SHIP FEVER--A RUN ON THE SAVINGS’
BANK--THE REBELLION LOSSES BILL AND THE BURNING OF PARLIAMENT
HOUSE--RELIGIOUS FANATICISM--GENERAL D’URBAN’S FUNERAL--A
CHARITY BALL--THE GRAND TRUNK INCORPORATORS--EDUCATIONAL
MOVEMENTS--THE “BLOOMERS” APPEAR--M’GILL UNIVERSITY
REVIVAL--THE GREAT FIRE OF 1852--THE GAVAZZI RIOTS--PROGRESS
IN 1853--THE CRIMEAN WAR OF 1854--THE PATRIOTIC FUND--THE
ASIATIC CHOLERA--THE ATLANTIC SERVICE FROM MONTREAL--ADMIRAL
BELVEZE’S VISIT--PARIS EXHIBITION PREPARATIONS--“S.S.
MONTREAL” DISASTER--THE INDIAN MUTINY--THE FIRST OVERSEAS
CONTINGENT--THE ATLANTIC CABLE CELEBRATED--A MAYOR OF THE
PERIOD--THE RECEPTION OF ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES--FORMAL
OPENING OF THE VICTORIA BRIDGE--THE GREAT BALL--“EDWARD
THE PEACEMAKER”--THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR--MONTREAL FOR THE
SOUTH--FEAR OF WAR--CITIZEN RECRUITING--THE MILITARY--OFFICERS
OF THE PERIOD--PEACE--THE SOUTHERNERS--THE WAR SCARE--THE
BIRTH OF MODERN MILITIA SYSTEM--THE MILITARY FETED--CIVIC
PROGRESS--FENIAN THREATS--D’ARCY MCGEE--SHAKESPEARE
CENTENARY--GERMAN IMMIGRANTS’ DISASTER--ST. ALBAN’S
RAIDERS--RECIPROCITY WITH THE UNITED STATES TO END--ABRAHAM
LINCOLN AND THE CITY COUNCIL--THE FIRST FENIAN RAID--MONTREAL
ACTION--MILITARY ENTHUSIASM--THE DRILL HALL--A RETROSPECT AND
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