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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal
110, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montréal, QUÉBEC
Established 1678
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

St. James Cathedral, Montreal.
Ancienne cathédrale Saint-Jacques
Former Cathedral of St. James
rue Saint-Denis & rue Sainte-Catherine E, Montréal, QUÉBEC
Established 1825
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Montreal from the Mountain
1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

In St. Gabriel Street
1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Montreal Harbour
1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Mail Steamer Passing Under Victoria Bridge
1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Notre Dame, From St. Urbain Street
1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

MONTREAL - Rue Ste. Catherine Quest. (St. Catherine Street West.)
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Sleighs.
For Speeding a Specialty;
For the Family;
For the Road;
Correct in style;
Half the regular price;
Harness, Horse Blankets, Sleigh Bells, Sleigh Robes, etc., etc.
E. N. Heney Co., Limited.
333-335 St. Paul Street,... Read MORE...
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Montréal, Québec, Canada

Mogul Cork Tips
Egyptian Cigarettes
Are Made From the Choicest Selections of Turkish Tobacco
15c. Per Package.
Montreal Argus
January 14, 1905
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History and News of Montréal, Québec, Canada
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1535 - October 2 - Jacques Cartier
visits the Iroquois town of Hochelaga; legend says he proclaimed "What a royal mountain," ("Quel Mont Royal (Mont Réal!)"; visits rapids at the head... Read MORE...
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1635 - Jean de Lauzon becomes the owner of the Island of Montreal.
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1636 - The Island Where There Was a Village
The Island of Mont Real is still being used as a temporary camp and the Savages called the place 'The Island Where There Was a Village'. The Savages ... Read MORE...
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Montreal - Travel Thru History Full Episode
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1642 - Fort Maisonneuve
Fort Maisonneuve (Montreal) is established by (I)-Paul de Maisonneuve (1612-1676) at Point Calliere near the ancient site of Hochelaga.... Read MORE...
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1642 - The sieur de Maisonneuve founds Montréal (May 18).
fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/links/resources/canadian-history/prehistory-to-1800.html
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1643 - Ville-Marie (Montreal) had grown from 50 people to 70 people by this year.
www.telusplanet.net/ public/ dgarneau/ french13.htm
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1644 - Iroquois attack Montreal on March 16
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1645 - Treaty with the Iroquois. The peace is broken a few months later. (Montreal)
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1645-10-08 First hospital in Montreal, Quebec founded, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal by nurse Jeanne Mance
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1646 to 1653 - War with the Iroquois (Montreal)
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1648 - Adrienne Du Vivier arrives; she and her husband, Augustin Hébert, are often referred to as "Montreal's First Citizens."
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1650 to 1653 - 50 men held Fort Montreal
Only 50 men held Fort Montreal. Between 1650 and 1653, 32 French settlers were killed by the Iroquois and 22 were captured. The Iroquois made such... Read MORE...
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1650 - Montreal Status Report
The wheat crop this year was excellent especially at Montreal. The Iroquois had driven most of the Savages from Montreal and only 50 French... Read MORE...
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1651 - On July 26, 200 Iroquois attack the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1652 - Montreal
Fifty miles beyond is the Great Island of Mont Reale, 180 miles distant from Kebec, which was formerly thickly in habited by Barbarians, while now... Read MORE...
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1653 - Congregation of Notre Dame founded in Montreal
Wikipedia - Timeline of Montreal History
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1653 - Life in Montreal
The Jesuit vision of the Mountain of Montreal is a mission to convert the Natives and stop French exploration and free trading. This objective... Read MORE...
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18th March, 1658 - Right to Bear Arms in Montreal
By-law permitting the inhabitants of Villemarie to provide themselves with guns and ammunition, to defend themselves against the Iroquois, to work in ... Read MORE...
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9th July, 1658 - Forbidding the Sale of Liquor to Indians (Montreal)
Renewed orders, forbidding the sale of liquor to the Indians, under pain of confiscation and a fine to be paid to the Villemarie church.
Sessional Papers: Volume 24, Issue 2 Quebec Province Legislature January 1, 1890
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1659 - New Laws (Montreal)
18th January, 1659. — By-law to put an end to riots and desertions arising from drunkenness and strict orders to the Officers of Justice to enforce... Read MORE...
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20th September 1662. — Firing guns during the night, or going out after retreat, prohibited. (Montreal)
Sessional Papers: Volume 24, Issue 2 Quebec Province Legislature January 1, 1890
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1666 Census - Montreal or Ville-Marie was scarcely more important than Three Rivers. The population of the whole district numbered only 625.
A fort built by Maisonneuve and Ailleboust at Pointe-a-Callieres; the house of the Sulpicians at the foot of the present Saint-Sulpice Street; the... Read MORE...
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1669 - Respecting the Divine (Montreal)
2nd April, 1669. — Ordinance of the King prohibiting inn-keepers from furnishing the people of the town with food or drink during the hours of divine ... Read MORE...
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7th March 1670 — Ordinance instructing the inhabitants of Montreal to mark their sacks and bags when they bring them to the mill.
Sessional Papers: Volume 24, Issue 2 Quebec Province Legislature January 1, 1890
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1678 - Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal established at Montréal
www.gcatholic.org
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1697 - The English and French make peace.
The Jesuit joined the Ville-Marie (Montreal) merchants to persuade the French Government to dismantle its Forts on the upper Great Lakes. The... Read MORE...
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1698 - October 14 - New France census shows: 639 houses in Montreal, 1,185 inhabitants
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1700 - Ville-Marie is renamed Montreal.
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1701 - 40 First Nation tribes, French Colonial Government signed Great Peace of Montreal
On August 4, 1701, some 40 Aboriginal nations gathered in Montreal. On that day, their representatives dinged the Treaty of Montreal. People in Montreal would remember this ceremony for a long time. All told, nearly 1,300 Aboriginal people lived for three weeks in this small town of about 2,600... Read MORE...
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1706 - Life in Montreal
The Montreal farmer's market opened this year, and farmers are forced to first to bring their produce to the market before selling it door to door.... Read MORE...
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Starting in 1716, a stone wall was built around Montreal.
History of Quebec for Dummies by Eric Bedard, published by John Wiley & Sons, Canada, Ltd.
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1732 - September 16 - Earthquake Near Montreal, QC. Widely felt. About 300 houses damaged in the city. No injuries.
catalystforscience.ca/ pdf/ 10/ ESS/ NRCEarthquakes/ Timeline_Earthquakes_list.pdf
1734 - A terrible fire in Montréal destroys 46 houses an an old historical church.
A young black slave called Marie-Joseph-Angélique is found guilty of lighting the blaze and is hanged. After this disaster, the intendant Bégon... Read MORE...
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1741 - "Montreal, of 506 households surveyed, nearly 60% declared they did not know how to write their name."
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1750 - The inhabitants of Montreal...
J.C.B. in the Great Lakes wrote: The inhabitants of Montreal are much more lively, active, courageous, passionate, enterprising and warlike than... Read MORE...
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1765-05-18 Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec
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1786 - The Molson Brewery was formed in Montreal in 1786. It is the second oldest company in Canada after the Hudson's Bay Company
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1830 - Port of Montreal created
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1832 - Rioting broke out during by-election in Montreal, British soldiers opened fire, three killed
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1832 - MONTREAL,
island, seigniory and county. - Montreal is the most considerable island in the province, and its superior fertility has acquired for it the... Read MORE...
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1832 - June - Immigrants with Cholera land at Quebec. By September the disease will kill 4,000 in Montreal.
www.canadahistory.com/ timeline.asp
1851 - December 9 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
www.wikipedia.org
December 9, 1851
1852 - GREAT FIRE IN MONTREAL AND LOSS OF LIFE - LOSS ESTIMATED AT $1,000,000.
Montreal, Monday, June 7.
We were yesterday visited with a most destructive conflagration, which has laid in ashes a considerable number of... Read MORE...
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1856 - The Grand Trunk Railway opens its Toronto-Montréal line.
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1859
MONTREAL, an island of Lower Canada, at the confluence of the Grand Ottawa river with the St. Lawrence, 580 m. from the mouth of the latter river. It ... Read MORE...
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1866 - St. Patrick’s Basilica established at Montréal
www.gcatholic.org
1871 - A girl of sixteen, near Montreal, recently took arsenic to whiten her complexion. None could question her success as she lay in her coffin the following day.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
January 7, 1871
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1873
MONTREAL, a city of the province of Quebec, the commercial metropolis of the Dominion of Canada, situated on the S. side of the Island of Montreal,... Read MORE...
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1873 - The Royal Montreal Golf Club, founded in 1873, is the oldest golf club in North America.
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1873 - THE MONTREAL HOTEL FIRE. Terrible Scenes Among the Boarders and Servants - A Woman Hangs to a Window-Frame for Half and Hour - Two Lives Lost.
The Montreal papers come filled with details of the terrible scenes connected with the partial destruction of the St. James Hotel, in that city, by... Read MORE...
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1873 - Accident on the Grand Trunk
Friday morning, at 5:30 o'clock, as the Portland express on the Grand Trunk Railway was passing the 27th mile post, near Soixante, the three last... Read MORE...
March 3, 1875: First organized ice hockey match, Montreal, Canada
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
March 3, 1875
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1879 - The Montreal Panic Over
MONTREAL - August 11. - The banking scare has entirely disappeared to-day and confidence has returned. The feeling on the stock exchange has vastly... Read MORE...
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1882-84 - Montreal / Mount Royal
THERE is no more beau-tiful city on the continent of America than the commercial metropolis of the Dominion of Canada. The geographical features of... Read MORE...
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1884 - A US patent for peanut butter was awarded to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec in 1884,
who had decided to apply for a US patent instead of a British one (the British patent office refused most patents from “colonials” in the 19th... Read MORE...
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1886 - The first transcontinental passenger train to make the trip along the Canadian Pacific Railway left Montreal, Quebec, at Dalhousie Station on June 28th, 1886 at 8 pm. It arrived in Port Moody, B.C. on July 4th, 1886 at noon.
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1886 - Montreal Fire
LARGE FIRE IN MONTREAL
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AMOUNTING TO NEARLY $200.000.
MONTREAL, Quebec, March 10 - The largest fire in Montreal for a long time... Read MORE...
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1888 - Blizzard - MONTREAL, Canada, Nov. 27. - One of the most severe storms of snow and wind known here for years broke over this province and Ontario Sunday evening and still continues.
The wind at times blew as hard as seventy miles per hour. The streets and surrounding country are covered with snow drifts, ten feet deep in places,... Read MORE...
1890 - December 25 - There are now seven patients suffering from various tuberculous afflictions being treated with the Koch lymph in the Montreal General hospital.
The Toronto Daily Mail
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
December 25, 1890
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1892 - Montréal has electric streetcars for the first time
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1893 - SHAKEN BY AN EARTHQUAKE (Montreal)
MILD SENSATION IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY REGION.
Considerable Alarm Felt in Montreal, Particularly in the Narrow Streets - Buildings Tremble and the... Read MORE...
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1894-03-22 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa HC, 3-1 to win 3-team challenge tournament
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1894 - Montreal's Financial Straits
MONTREAL, Quebec, Oct 30. - Owing to the bad state of the finances of the city, the Board of Aldermen has recommended that all properties now exempt... Read MORE...
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1895 - Montreal
Montreal, a city of the province of Quebec, Canada, the commercial metropolis of the Dominion of Canada, situated on the S. side of the Island of... Read MORE...
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1895-03-09 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias clinches trophy as Montreal HC beats Queens University (Kingston, Ontario), 5-1
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1896-02-14 Stanley Cup, Victoria Skating Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
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1897 - HEAVY EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. City of Montreal Shaken and Other Places Felt the Vibration.
A heavy shock of earthquake shook the center of the city of Montreal last evening and caused great consternation. Large buildings shook like reeds... Read MORE...
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1897-12-27 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2
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1898 - A “ SNAP-SHOT ” AT OLD MONTREAL RASCO'S HOTEL
"And then go to my inn, and dine." (Shakespeare)
In former lines the most fashionable hotel in the city was Rasco's. It still stands at the east... Read MORE...
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1902 - A Massachusetts Man's Big Luck - Gate Tender on a Railroad to Get a Large Slice.
The Times Special Service.
WORCESTER, Mass., Saturday, June 7. - Family records expected daily from the parish priest at Lanoraie in Quebec are... Read MORE...
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1904 - Basilique-Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde et St-Jacques established in Montréal
www.gcatholic.org
1904 - Is the City Water Safe?
The Montreal aldermen who wish to keep the result of any analysis of the city water secret, show more acquaintance with than faith in the water. Just ... Read MORE...
1905 - Dangers of Fire Alarm Boxes
Two citizens have recently made claims against the city because they rain their heads against fire alarm boxes attached to telegraph poles; one sets... Read MORE...
1912 - DEAD IN MONTREAL FIRE.
Manager of Manufacturing Plant Suffocated in Business Block Blaze.
MONTREAL, Feb. 13, - One man was burned to death to-day in a fire which... Read MORE...
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1922 - Montréal radio station CKAC begins broadcasting, the first radio station in Quebec.
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1926-04-06 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 2-0 for a 3-1 series victory
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On 9 January 1927, a small fire broke out in the Laurier Palace Theatre, Montréal.
Firefighters arrived within two minutes and the blaze was extinguished in 10 minutes, but in the panic to escape an overcrowded building, many... Read MORE...
1930-04-03 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4-3 for a 2-0 series sweep and their 3rd Championship
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1931-04-14 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 2-0 for a 3-2 series win; Canadiens' back-to-back Championships
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1932 - 21 KILLED, 63 HURT IN TANKER BLOW-UP AT MONTREAL DOCKS. SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS ON BRITISH BOAT IN DRYDOCK CAUSES $1,000,000 DAMAGE - FIRE CHIEF AND OTHERS LOST IN FLAMES.
CREW ASLEEP ON VESSEL WHEN FIRST EXPLOSION OCCURS - FLYING TIMBERS KILL SEVERAL IN SUCCEEDING DETONATIONS.
Montreal, June 17. - (UP) - A series of ... Read MORE...
1944-04-13 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 5-4 in overtime for a 4-0 series sweep; Canadiens' first SC triumph since 1931
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1935-04-09 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Maroons beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1 for 3-0 series sweep; Maroons last defunct team to win the Cup
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1946-04-09 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 6-3 for a 4-1 series victory
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1953-04-16 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0 for a 4-1 series win
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1956-04-10 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Jean Béliveau has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 3-2 for a 4-1 series win
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1957-04-16 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dickie Moore has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 5-1 for a 4-1 series victory
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1959 - Tramways stop running in Montréal
1959-04-18 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens' 4th straight title; beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 5-3 for a 4-1 series win
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1965-05-01 Stanley Cup, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dick Duff has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-0 in Game 7 to take title 4-3
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April 27, 1967: Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson
The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
April 27, 1967
1968-05-11 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Defenceman J. C. Tremblay fires home the winner as Montreal Canadiens edge St Louis Blues, 3-2 for a 4-0 series sweep
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1979-05-21 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: 4 consecutive titles for Montreal Canadiens; beat NY Rangers, 4-1 for a 4 games to 1 series win
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1989-05-25 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4-2 to win series 4 games to 2; Flames' first SC title
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1993-06-09 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4-1 for a 4-1 series win; Canadiens' 24th SC Championship
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2012-03-22 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
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