Sights and shrines of Montreal; a guide book for strangers and a hand book for all lovers of historic spots and incidents . schools of the Roman Catholic Com-missioners are the Plateau Street Academy, CatholicHigh School for Boys and the Ecole Normale onSherbrooke Street, all excellent schools, occupyingnoble buildings. They are for boys alone, KomanCatholic girls being sent to convent schools, in chargeof nuns. The Catholic Commissioners have, besides, a numberof other schools under their care. Altogether, thecity contains 4 Catholic colleges, 30 academies, 31schools. There has been recently
Sights and shrines of Montreal; a guide book for strangers and a hand book for all lovers of historic spots and incidents . schools of the Roman Catholic Com-missioners are the Plateau Street Academy, CatholicHigh School for Boys and the Ecole Normale onSherbrooke Street, all excellent schools, occupyingnoble buildings. They are for boys alone, KomanCatholic girls being sent to convent schools, in chargeof nuns. The Catholic Commissioners have, besides, a numberof other schools under their care. Altogether, thecity contains 4 Catholic colleges, 30 academies, 31schools. There has been recently opened a HighSchool for English speaking Catholics. Some of the French establishments are interestingfrom their historical associations or foreign air. Thosenamed colleges are of the nature of high schools. 106 SIGHTS AND SHRINES OF MONTREAL. The Seminaire de St. Sulpice, or Grand Seminary, for the training of priests, has been already describednnder Place dArmes. Its junior branch, the College de Montreal, or PetitSeminaire, is situated on Sherbrooke Street West, onthe Priests Farm, an ancient property of the THE OLD SEMINARY TOWERS. Its large buildings are built upon the site of one of theearliest edifices of Montreal, the country house of theGrand Seminar}, known as the Maison des Messieurs,or Fort de la Montagne, around which the village ofthe Indian converts was placed. The Maison des Mes-sieurs, now represented by two historic towers, stand-ing as relics of a mediaeval past, was a large rough oldedifice of plastered stone, three stories higW in the SIGHTS AND SHRINES OF MONTREAL. 107 centre and two elsewhere, surmounted by roofs resem-bling those of the present Grand Seminary, pinnacledand curved in the inimitable old French extensive stone wall enclosed it for purposes offortifications, while the pair of towers formed part ofthe wall in front, and between them was the a walied enclosure adjoining, to the eastward, wasthe Indian village;
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