Chapter XXIII: Supplemental Annals and Sidelights of Social Life

UNDER CONFEDERATION

1867-1914

CONFEDERATION--IMPRESSIONS OF--FUNERAL OF D’ARCY M’GEE--PRINCE
ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT--THE SECOND FENIAN RAID--THE “SILVER”
NUISANCE--ORGANIZATION OF CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD--RUN ON
A SAVINGS BANK--FUNERAL OF SIR GEORGE ETIENNE CARTIER--NEW
BALLOT ACT--THE “BAD TIMES”--THE NATIONAL POLICY--THE ICE
RAILWAY--THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD CONTRACT--THE FORMATION
OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA--OTHER CONGRESSES--THE
FIRST WINTER CARNIVAL--FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. JEAN
BAPTISTE ASSOCIATION--THE GREAT ALLEGORICAL PROCESSION AND
CAVALCADE--THE MONUMENT NATIONAL--THE RIEL REBELLION--SMALLPOX
EPIDEMIC AND RIOTS--THE FLOODS OF 1886--THE FIRST
REVETMENT WALL--THE JESUITS ESTATES BILL AND THE EQUAL
RIGHTS PARTY--LA GRIPPE--THE COMTE DE PARIS--ELECTRICAL
CONVENTION--HISTORIC TABLETS PLACED--THE TWO HUNDRED AND
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF VILLE MARIE--THE BOARD OF TRADE
BUILDING BURNT--THE CITY RAILWAY ELECTRIFIED--HOME RULE FOR
IRELAND--VILLE MARIA BURNT--THE “SANTA MARIA”--CHRISTIAN
ENDEAVOURERS CONVENTION--THE CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY AS A PUBLIC
MUSEUM--MAISONNEUVE MONUMENT--LAVAL UNIVERSITY--QUEEN
VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE--MONTREAL AND THE BOER WAR--THE
VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL--TURBINE STEAMERS--A
JAPANESE LOAN COMPANY--FIRST AUTOMOBILE FATALITY--FIRES AT
MCGILL--ECLIPSE OF SUN--THE WINDSOR STATION ACCIDENT--THE
“WITNESS” BUILDING BURNT--THE OPENING OF THE ROYAL EDWARD
INSTITUTE--GREAT CIVIC REFORM--THE DEATH OF EDWARD VII--THE
“HERALD” BUILDING BURNT--THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS--MONTREAL A
WORLD CITY--THE DRY DOCK--THE “TITANIC DISASTER”--CHILD WELFARE
EXHIBITION--MONTREAL AND THE WAR OF 1914 231

PART II

SPECIAL PROGRESS

CHAPTER XXIV

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

EARLY CHAPELS AND CHURCHES--THE FIRST PARISH CHURCH--OTHER
CHURCHES STANDING AT THE FALL OF MONTREAL--NOTRE DAME DE
VICTOIRE--- NOTRE DAME OF PITIE--THE “RECOLLET”--THE PRESENT
NOTRE DAME CHURCH--ERECTION AND OPENING--THE “OLD AND
NEW”--THE TOWERS AND BELLS--THE ECCLESIASTICAL DIOCESE OF
QUEBEC--THE BISHOPS OF MONTREAL--THE DIVISION OF THE CITY
INTO PARISHES--THE CHURCHES AND “RELIGIOUS”--ENGLISH-SPEAKING
CATHOLICS--ST. PATRICK’S, IRISH NATIONAL CHURCH, ETC. NOTE: THE
“RELIGIOUS” COMMUNITIES OF MEN AND WOMEN 251

CHAPTER XXV

OTHER RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS

ANGLICANISM--EARLY BEGINNINGS--FIRST “CHRIST CHURCH”--THE BISHOPS
OF MONTREAL--HISTORY OF EARLY ANGLICAN CHURCHES.

PRESBYTERIANISM--ST. GABRIEL’S STREET CHURCH--ITS OFFSHOOTS--THE
FREE KIRK MOVEMENT--THE CHURCH OF TODAY.

METHODISM--FIRST CHAPEL ON ST. SULPICE, 1809--THE DEVELOPMENT OF
METHODIST CHURCHES.

THE BAPTISTS--FIRST CHAPEL OF ST. HELEN STREET--FURTHER GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT--PRESENT CHURCHES.

CONGREGATIONALISM--CANADA EDUCATION AND HOME MISSIONARY
SOCIETY--FIRST CHURCH ON ST. MAURICE STREET--CHURCHES OF TODAY.

UNITARIANISM--FIRST SERMON IN CANADA, 1832--ST. JOSEPH STREET
CHAPEL--THE CHURCHES OF THE MESSIAH.

HEBREWS--SHEARITH ISRAEL--SHAAC HASHOMOYIM AND OTHER
CONGREGATIONS.

SALVATION ARMY--ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.

OTHER DENOMINATIONS.

A RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF MONTREAL FOR 1911 271

CHAPTER XXVI

1760-1841

SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MONTREAL BEFORE THE CESSION

NEW MOVEMENT FOR BOYS--THE COLLEGE OF MONTREAL--THE BEGINNINGS
OF ENGLISH EDUCATION--THE FIRST ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTERS BEFORE
1790--A REPORT OF 1790 FOR THE SCHOOLS OF CANADA--THE DESIRE
TO REAR UP A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION--THE JESUITS’
ESTATES--THE “CASE” AGAINST AMHERST’S CLAIM TO THE JESUITS’
ESTATES AND FOR THEIR DIVERGENCE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION--NEW
ENGLISH MOVEMENT FOR A GENERAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION--THE
ACT OF 1801--THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
LEARNING--NEVER A POPULAR SUCCESS--ITS REFORM IN 1818--A
COUNTERPOISE--THE FABRIQUE ACT OF 1824--REVIEW OF SCHOOLS UNDER
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION--SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS--REVIEW OF CATHOLIC
SCHOOLS--LAY SCHOOLS--LORD DURHAM’S REPORT ON EDUCATION. NOTE:
THE JESUITS’ ESTATES 293

CHAPTER XXVII

1841-1914

THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AFTER THE UNION

THE RISE OF THE “SCHOOL COMMISSIONS OF MONTREAL”

EDUCATION AFTER THE REBELLION--THE EDUCATIONAL ACT OF
1846--THE PERSONNEL OF THE FIRST CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT
COMMISSIONERS--NORMAL SCHOOLS--THE AMENDED SCHOOL ACT
OF 1868-69--THE CHARTER--THE PROTESTANT HIGH SCHOOL--THE
PROTESTANT COMMISSIONERS, 1869-1914--HISTORY OF
SCHOOLS--LIST OF CATHOLIC COMMISSIONERS, 1869-1914--PRESENT
SCHOOLS UNDER COMMISSION--INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC SCHOOL
COMMISSIONS--THE ORGANIZATIONS COOPERATING WITH THE CENTRAL
COMMISSION--“NUNS”--“BROTHERS”--“LAITY.”

NOTE: SECONDARY EDUCATION--TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL--VOCATIONAL 305