, 1890-10-16
IN LOVELY MONTREAL
Pen Picture of the Famous
Canadian City.
A QUAINT, HISTORIC TOWN
Its Churches, Educational, and
Philanthropio Institutions, and
Other Objects Described.

Written by q resident of Montreal,
now in Spokane.
The commercial metropolis of the
Dominion of Canada is the city of
Montreal, in the province of Que
bee. 1t is built on an island called
isle of Jesus" In front of which
flows the majestic st. Lawrence
river. Montreal Is at the foot of
Mount Royal, and IL extends from
the water ID about one-third of the
distance up the mountain. 1t is
about two miles wide in some parts,
and as many as three in other por-
tions.
Most of the commercial houses
are stone buildings. All of the pub
lie and government ediflces are of
marble, granite and brown and blue
stone,
The numerous churches are monu-
mental, and some of them are not
eXcelled in America. Such Is st.
Peters Catholic cathedral, which is
an exact copy, in reduced proper
tions, of st. Peters in Rome, the
largest and most magnificent
church in the world. The Episco-
paliun Christ cathedral and the
Catholic Notre Dame church would
be Il credit to any city in the United
states.
The docks, at which are seen
ocean steamers and ships from all
the ports of the world, are solidly
constructed In huge cut stones, and
are immense In size. The famous
Grand Trunk Victoria bridge, con-
sidered as one of the wonders
of engineering, is crossed
daily by over 100 trains of different
railway companies, notwithstand-
ing the Central Pacific railway
bridge at Lachine, two miles from
the city.
Extensive iron, cotton, wood,
shoe and other factories, moved by
water power and steam, are scat
tered in different places in the city
aud in its suburbs.
There Is perhaps no city in the
whole universe better provided with
educational institutions than Mon
treal. There are situated the McGill,
Laval and Bishop universities for
high education In divinity, law,
medicine and sciences: Laval and
McGill normal schools for training
professors and teachers, Grand SEM
mary, st. s5ulpicc college, st. Mary
Jesuit college and the McGill high
school for languages and classical
courses, and many commercial
schools, both English and French,
for commercial branches. Element
AIRY and grammar schools are in n
flourishing condition. Higher edu-
cation for girls is as we'll provided
for us II that for their brothers.
The normal and McGill high
schools and other Protestant in
stitutions are open to them.
The Catholics have put this in the
hands of the sisters of the congregu.
ton of Notre Dame, whose mother
house, Monklands, is perhaps the
largest establishment ON our CONT
nent. Sisters of the Sacred Heart,
sisters of Holy Cross and the sisters
of Holy Names, the mother house of
those In Spokane on Main street,
who are now building an academy
near Ross Park, are the leading
schools, and these sisters have many
converts in Montreal proper aud in
the surroundings.
Charity and phllanthrophy have
numerous and fine temples in the
Canadian metropolis. Among them
are the large and well-kept Protes-
tant general hospital and the tatho-
lie Hotel Dicu, kept by the Sisters
Joseph, whose foundation dates
from the beginning of Vile Marie,
Montreal; the general hospital,
kept by the Grey Nuns, who were
established, as the Others, in early
days; the Notre Dame hospital, by
the same sisters, and the Providence
Sisters of Charity, who have given
to Washington sisters for the hos
pital on Front street i'm Spokane
Falls, and for the hospitals OF Van
couver, Seattle, Olympia, Walla
Walla and Port Towusp nd.
The new, substantial mother
house of that community for Canada
and the United States occupies an
area of three acres of land on Fullum
street, in the eastern part OF Mon
treal. These communities have the
care of the sick, of the infirm, of
the ola and of the orphans. The
Sisters of the Good Shepherd have
the charge of rcpGntunt fallen
girls, and of preserved girls. They
have also the care of women in tile
government prison, and OF the re-
form school. Protestant benevolent
ladies have the care of the Protestant
department of women's govern
ment prison, and the reformatory
department is at Sherbrooke, prov
ince of Quebec.
According to the census ordered
by the city council, and completed
on September II last, the popula-
tion of Montreal is $780, souls,
The increase over the preceding
census of 1887, three years ago, is
1878, Three-fifths OF the popula-
ton are of French descent, one.fifth
Irish, and the other fifth English
and Scotch. a VISITOR.
THE COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Teachers Assocsation-Nearly All the
Vacancies Supplied.