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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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h has been pushed westward by the onward marchof the wholesale trade, which has sought more room.St. James, Notre Dame, McGiU, Craig and St. Peterstreets are the leading down town streets, and financialcenters, which remind one of the streets of New Yorkbelow Canal street, as they are narrow and shoot offunexpectedly without any apparent reason. The finestresidences will be found on Sherbrooke, Dorchester and in the distance the Green Mountains of Vermont andthe Adirondacks. For those who do not care to drive,there are many paths which can be easily climbed, astairway with 427 steps, and an incline railway. On theslope of the mountain are the two large cemeteries, whererest the ashes of the dead—Mt. Royal cemetery, wherethe beloved of the English are buried, and Notre Damede Neiges cemetery, which is used by all Roman Catho-lics. Both these cemeteries are well worth a visit.Logan park, in the northern portion of the city, contain-ing about one and a half square miles, is a new park,
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JAMES LINTON S RESIDENCE.CITY HALL. West, Drummond, Mountain, Redpath, Simpson, Univer-sity, St. Denis, Union avenue and McGill College avenue. PUBLIC PARKS. In 1875 the city purchased Mt. Royal, about 550 feethigh, which by the e.xpenditure of more than half a mil-lion dollars has been converted into a park. Nature hasmade the scenery, but art has cut a carriage road, whichwinds around the mountain three times, ascending byeasy grades to the top, where there is a view that is unex-celled on this continent. Below the mountain is thebeautiful valley of the St. Lawrence with its manyislands; on the other side the Lake of Two Mountains, SENATOR DRUMMOND S RESIDENCE.CHATEAU DE RAMEZY, OLD GOVERNORS MANSION. which is being gradually improved. Last year the cityappropriated about $10,000. St. Helens Island, in theSt. Lawrence, which is reached by ferry, is anotherfavorite breathing place. WHAT TO SEK. If the delegate who would see Montreal will keep inmind the fact that most of the objects

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