Sights and shrines of Montreal; a guide book for strangers and a hand book for all lovers of historic spots and incidents . ch, exceptthe deep-water portion, consisting of 2 flanking spansof 270 feet and 2 cantilever, each 408, forming onecontinuous truss 3,356 feet long. As the eye ranges about the harbour, it is caughtby the long range of solid stone buildings which formthe front of the city, by the great grain elevatorsgrouped at each end of the view, by the domes, towersand spires of the Bonsecours Market, BonsecoursChurch, Notre Dame, the Custom House, and the Har-bor Commissioners Buildi
Sights and shrines of Montreal; a guide book for strangers and a hand book for all lovers of historic spots and incidents . ch, exceptthe deep-water portion, consisting of 2 flanking spansof 270 feet and 2 cantilever, each 408, forming onecontinuous truss 3,356 feet long. As the eye ranges about the harbour, it is caughtby the long range of solid stone buildings which formthe front of the city, by the great grain elevatorsgrouped at each end of the view, by the domes, towersand spires of the Bonsecours Market, BonsecoursChurch, Notre Dame, the Custom House, and the Har-bor Commissioners Building, and the serried mastsand the smokestacks of many steamships crowding thewharves. The landscape is one long page of historvand tragedy. Many a pre-historic savage fight musthave taken place in the neighborhood : many a canoefull of painted warriors have crept stealthily along the 16 SIGHTS AND SHRINES OP MONTREAL shores. On the shores round about, many a party ofsettlers was murdered by the Iroquois in the earliestdays of the colony. Two lost their lives in the samemanner on St. Helens Island just opposite ; and on. C 1\R. BRIDGE, LACH1NE. Moffatts, or Isle-a-la-Pierre, Father Guillaume Vignalwas slain by an Iroquois ambush during a fierce battleon the opening of a quarry in 1659. On the Longueuilbank opposite might, during the 18th century, havebeen descried the towers, walls and chapel spire ofthe finest feudal castle in New France. At there was a palisaded fort. Laprairie, far SIGHTS AND SHRINES OF MONTREAL. 17 over to the south, across the water, was the scene, in1691, of the celebrated and desperate battle ofLaprairie, the first land attack by British colonistsupon Canada. To the port came Indian traders for ageneration before the founding of the city. Thitherin succeeding days came down the processions of hugecanoes of gaily-singing voyageurs, returning from ayears adventurous trading in the pathless regions ofthe West to the annual two months fair at Montre
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