CHAPTER XXIII

SUPPLEMENTAL ANNALS AND SIDELIGHTS OF SOCIAL LIFE

UNDER CONFEDERATION

1867-1914

CONFEDERATION--IMPRESSIONS OF--FUNERAL OF D’ARCY M’GEE--PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT--THE SECOND FENIAN RAID--THE “SILVER” NUISANCE--ORGANIZATION OF CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD--RUN ON A SAVINGS BANK--FUNERAL OF SIR GEORGE ETIENNE CARTIER--NEW BALLOT ACT--THE “BAD TIMES”--THE NATIONAL POLICY--THE ICE RAILWAY--THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD CONTRACT--THE FORMATION OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA--OTHER CONGRESSES--THE FIRST WINTER CARNIVAL--FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. JEAN BAPTISTE ASSOCIATION--THE GREAT ALLEGORICAL PROCESSION AND CAVALCADE--THE MONUMENT NATIONAL--THE RIEL REBELLION--SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC AND RIOTS--THE FLOODS OF 1886--THE FIRST REVETMENT WALL--THE JESUITS ESTATES BILL AND THE EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY--LA GRIPPE--THE COMTE DE PARIS--ELECTRICAL CONVENTION--HISTORIC TABLETS PLACED--THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF VILLE MARIE--THE BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING BURNT--THE CITY RAILWAY ELECTRIFIED--HOME RULE FOR IRELAND--VILLE MARIA BURNT--THE “SANTA MARIA”--CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOURERS CONVENTION--THE CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY AS A PUBLIC MUSEUM--MAISONNEUVE MONUMENT--LAVAL UNIVERSITY--QUEEN VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE--MONTREAL AND THE BOER WAR--THE VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL--TURBINE STEAMERS--A JAPANESE LOAN COMPANY--FIRST AUTOMOBILE FATALITY--FIRES AT MCGILL--ECLIPSE OF SUN--THE WINDSOR STATION ACCIDENT--THE “WITNESS” BUILDING BURNT--THE OPENING OF THE ROYAL EDWARD INSTITUTE--GREAT CIVIC REFORM--THE DEATH OF EDWARD VII--THE “HERALD” BUILDING BURNT--THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS--MONTREAL A WORLD CITY--THE DRY DOCK--THE “TITANIC DISASTER”--CHILD WELFARE EXHIBITION--MONTREAL AND THE WAR OF 1914 231