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MONTREAL 1535-1914

Under British Rule 1760-1914

by

WILLIAM HENRY ATHERTON, Ph. D.


   _Qui manet in patria et patriam cognoscere temnit
   Is mihi non civis, sed peregrinus erit_

VOLUME II







[Illustration]

Illustrated

The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Montreal Vancouver Chicago
1914




PREFACE


The history of “Montreal Under British Rule” is the “T