resolution carried
recommending it for capital, 182-183; MacNab's and Draper's opposition,
183; gerrymandered by government, 1844, and elects two supporters of
government, 252; becomes capital, 254; address of welcome to Elgin, 275;
returns La Fontaine in elections of 1848, 279; riots in, over Rebellion
Losses Bill, 305, 322-325. =Sy= Charter of, reestablished, 255; change
in electoral limits of, 285; two members assigned to, 285. =Bk=
Description and early history of, 99, 100; centre of fur trade, 100.
=Md= Ceases to be seat of government after the riots, 28, 29; issues
Annexation Manifesto in 1849, 39, 40. =S= The entrepot between Britain
and Upper Canada, 109. =C= Cartier warns people of the importance to
city's welfare of means of transportation, 47; urged as terminus of
Canadian Pacific Railway, 52. _See also_ Ville Marie; Mount Royal.
=Bib.=: Dollier de Casson, _Histoire du Montreal, 1640-1672_; Morin, _Le
vieux Montreal_; McLennan, _Anciens Montrealais_ ("Canada Francais,"
vol. 3); Bosworth, _Hochelaga Depicta_; Sandham, _Ville-Marie_;
Warburton, _Hochelaga_; Leblond de Brumath, _Histoire Populaire de
Montreal_; Lighthall, _Montreal after Two Hundred and Fifty Years_;
McLennan, _Montreal, 1642-1842_, and Dawson, _Montreal, 1842-1892_ in
the _Semi-centennial Report of the Montreal Board of Trade_. _See also_
under Maisonneuve; Jean-Jacques Olier; Marguerite Bourgeoys;
Mademoiselle Mance; Jeanne Le Ber; Madame d'Youville; and in
publications of the Soc. Hist. de Montreal, Quebec Literary and
Historical Society, and Royal Society of Canada. Contemporary
descriptions are found in narratives of Kalm, Lambert, and Landmann.

=Montreal, Island of.= =Dr= Limit of French settlement, 8; governorship
of, abolished, 21. =L= Consecrated to the Virgin Mary, 8, 85; granted to
the Sulpicians, 108.

=Montreal Company.= Founded at Montreal, 1784, in opposition to the
North West Company. Two Montreal merchants, John Gregory and Alexander
Norman McLeod, formed a partnership with Peter Pond and Peter Pangman,
western fur traders. Alexander Mackenzie joined the Company, and much of
its success was due to his energy and resourcefulness. His cousin,
Roderick Mackenzie, was also in its service. Keen rivalry resulted
between the two companies, finally culminating in a tragedy; in the
Athabaska department, Pond, who had deserted to the North West Company,
quarrelled with his rival, Ross, and in the scuffle Ross was fatally
shot. This ser