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Ouimetoscope opens, 1900.Airport renamed for Pierre Trudeau, 2004NEW YEAR NAMELESS DAY

Canadiens play first match, against Cobalt Silver Kings, 1910Ice storm begins, 1998

Maisonneuve plants first cross on Mount Royal, 1643Brother André dies, 1937

Laurier Palace fire, 1927First Bonsecours Market dome fire, 1948

First edition of Le Devoir, 1910First CBMT broadcast, 1954

Concrete slab falls off Olympic stadium, 1994

Jeanne Mance founds Hôtel‑Dieu, 1644Marguerite Bourgeoys dies in Montreal, 1700St‑Louis‑de‑France burns down, 1934

Coldest temperature: −37.8 °C, 1957

First edition of Montreal Star, 1869

CFCF‑TV begins broadcasts, 1961

Paolo Violi shot dead, 1978

First ice palace carnival, 1883Metropolitan opens to traffic, Pie‑IX to Laurentian Blvd., 1960

École Polytechnique opens, 1905Construction starts on the metro, 1961

McGill University opens, 1829

Mordecai Richler born, 1931

Stadium roof tears under weight of snow and ice, 1999

Lionel‑Groulx station, detail

Women property owners get municipal voting rights, 1932Wilfrid Pelletier founds predecessor to OSM, 1935

Never assume that cars will always stop just because they “have to.” – Blork

You can tell the REM was designed by people who don’t use public transit. – Ginger Baker

Ireland is not a neighbourhood of Montreal. – ant6n

I wish that people would stop buying water in the first place. It’s an industry built on bullshit. – Ephraim

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LUNAR NEW YEAR

First winter carnival, 1884Québec solidaire founded, 2006

Garment worker strike, ILGWU, 1925

General strike by tram workers, 1903René Lévesque kills an itinerant with his car, 1977

First recorded use of the word puck, Gazette, 1876Beatles play the Forum, 1964

Insectarium opens, 1990

Concordia computer riot, 1969

Wilbert Coffin hanged at Bordeaux Jail, 1956

Montreal Stock Exchange bombed by FLQ, 1969

First phone call connects Montreal and Vancouver, 1916

Unifolié hoisted for first time, 1965

Snowdon Theatre opens, 1937

First proto‑FLQ bombing at CKGM radio building, 1963

First Nuit Blanche (February 29), 2004

Launch of Radio‑Canada International, 1945

First edition of Honoré Beaugrand’s daily La Patrie, 1879

Sault‑au‑Récollet annexed to Montreal, 1916

Jean Drapeau born, 1916

Olympic stadium parterre

People don’t realize how slow the metro travels. If they did, nobody would jump in front of one. – Kevin

Notre système de démocratie représentative est schizophrène et nos ‘dirigeants’ atteints d’hubris. – Raymond Lutz

Ok I’m watching the National Assembly debate on Bonjour-Hi and it is the funniest thing since “Curb your Enthusiasm’s” second season. – Jack

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Montreal Shamrocks win Stanley Cup, 1900U de Montréal chartered, 1878

55 cm of snow falls in two days, March 1 and 2, 1900

Botanical garden founded, 1932Record snowfall, 43 cm, 1971

Adoption of city logo, 1981

McGill chartered, 1821

Société St‑Jean‑Baptiste founded, 1834Howie Morenz dies, 1937

L‑H‑Lafontaine tunnel opens, 1967Last match at the Forum, 1996

Montreal Wanderers win Stanley Cup, 1910

Laurentian Hotel opens, 1948

First St. Patrick’s parade, 1824; first mass at St. Patrick’s church, 1847Richard riot, 1955

Police service founded, 1843Taylor and Burton marry at the Ritz, 1964

200,000 people march against Canadian involvement in the US‑Iraq war, 2003

VERNAL EQUINOX

Brutalist colonnade, HEC

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GOOD FRIDAYFIRST DAY OF PASSOVER

LAST DAY OF PASSOVEREASTER

Halley’s Comet seen over town, 1758Hochelaga Bank heist, 1924

Fire department founded, 1862

EASTER MONDAY

Slavery made legal, 1709Funeral of D’Arcy McGee, 1868

Ice dam in river causes massive flooding, 1861First Expos game, 1969

Titanic sinks, 1912, killing 1,595, including a dozen MontrealersQueen Elizabeth hotel opens, 1958

Kateri Tekakwitha dies, 1680

Jackie Robinson debuts with Montreal Royals, 1946

Burning of Parliament, 1849Griffintown plane crash, 1944

Expo 67 opens, 1967

KATE’S BIRTHDAY

Grande bibliothèque opens, 2005

Seaway formally opened, 1959

Laval metro extension opens, 2007

Habitat 67

We have a very nuanced relationship to gravity in this city. – JaneyB

People from Toronto have this way of assuming that their experience of Canada is the Canadian experience. – david100

The Gazette these days is basically an advertising agency for real estate agents and developers. – Uatu

When you live on the Plateau the whole world looks like the Plateau. – Blork

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RAMADAN BEGINS

VICTORIA/PATRIOTES DAY (observed)

Place des Arts (rear view)

Lennon‑Ono bed‑in begins at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 1969

Dany Laferrière admitted to Académie Française, 2015

Founding of city by Maisonneuve and Mance, 1642

First electric street light, Champ‑de‑Mars, 1879

Gilles Villeneuve dies in Belgium, 1982

Sinking of Lusitania, 1915, several Montrealers die.Nobel prize winner Sidney Altman born, 1939

Original Montreal General Hospital building completed, 1822

Delivery of Canada’s first locomotive, the Iron Kitten, 1836

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit, 1939

Jacques‑Cartier bridge opens, 1930

First Quebec referendum, 1980

Mount Royal Park inaugurated, 1876

[The STM] hired a company called “Global Tardif”, they shouldn’t expect those repairs to be done on time, even if their bid was lower than “Global Ponctuel”’s. – jorgh

Ste-Catherine doesn’t suffer from a lack of customer traffic. If a business can’t lure some of the thousands of people that walk by their storefront every day then a few parking spots are not going to help. – Marco

I’d swim in the Old Port only after taking a prophylactic massive dose of wide-spectrum, latest generation antibiotics. – Bernard

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SUMMER SOLSTICE

ST-JEAN

Viger Square – Agora as it was in 2015

24th and last Canadiens Stanley Cup, 1993Accueil Bonneau blows up, 1998Belmont Park opens, 1923

Saul Bellow born in Lachine, 1915

American forces retreat in disarray, 1776

Jean Doré dies, 2015

Bank of Montreal incorporated, 1817

NDG and Côte‑des‑Neiges annexed by Montreal, 1910

Jacques Viger, first mayor, elected 1833

Cargo ship Cymbeline explodes, 1932

Half of Montreal destroyed by fire, 1721Nelson Mandela speaks on Champ‑de‑Mars, 1990

Quebecor shuts down Montreal Mirror, 2012

Marie‑Josèphe dite Angélique hanged, 1734

First CPR train departs for BC, 1886

First movies shown in Canada, 1896 (building burned down in 2016)

Champlain Bridge opens, 1962

Michel Tremblay born, 1942

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CANADA DAY

Viger Square, detail

Central Station opens, 1943 Record rainfall, more than 100 mm of rain in 2 hrs, 1987

Completion of first grain elevator, 1904Nobel prize winner Rudolph Marcus born, 1923

First powered flight over town, 1910

Great Fire of 1852: 11,000 houses destroyed

Maisonneuve monument unveiled on Place d’Armes, 1895

Oka Crisis begins, 1990

Queen Victoria monument blown up, 1963

National League all‑star game, 1982

Work starts on Lachine Canal, 1821Olympic Games open, 1976

Sex Garage raid, 1990 City’s first coat of arms adopted, 1833 (amended 1938 and 2017)

First stone laid for Victoria Bridge, 1854

Lachine Canal completed, 1825

De Gaulle’s Vive le Québec libre, 1967

First live TV broadcast, Royals game, CBFT, 1952

First CPR train from Montreal arrives in BC, 1886

It’s not Pierrefonds drive-thru book chute that’s incompatible with sustainability but Pierrefonds itself. – nau

Projet did remove the “cats aren’t allowed to roam” part of the bylaw, but they didn’t advertise it. – kevin

Les gens doivent être jugés ultimement sur leurs actes, pas sur leur paroles ni leurs allégeances. – Raymond Lutz

Wow, I don’t feel very bad for the TMR folks complaining but why do you have to act like such snooty little jerks yourselves? – David

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Théâtre National opens on Ste‑Catherine E., 1900Death of Jean Drapeau, 1999

EID AL-ADHA

Le Rigaud, detail

Great Peace of Montreal, 1701R‑100 dirigible over town, 1930

First pedestrian in automobile fatality, 1906

Camillien Houde freed from internment, 1944Union workers hold vigorous demo at city hall, 2014

Prince of Wales inaugurates Victoria Bridge, 1860

High temperature record, 37.6°C, 1975Olympic Games close, 1976

Kondiaronk dies, 1701

Jacques Cartier names the river, 1535

Camillien Houde interned for anti‑conscription statements, 1940

Refus global published, 1948Fredy Villlanueva killed, 2008

River rises, a quarter of the city floods, 1861

Oscar Peterson born, 1925Cornerstone of St. Joseph’s Oratory laid, 1930

Redpath Museum opens, 1882

Fabrikant shootings, 1992

Montreal Protocol on ozone layer protection, 1987,in force 1989

First passage of Lachine Canal by steamboat, 1840

Last streetcar run, Rosemont, 1959

Begging made illegal, 1676

Kahnawake loses 33 men in collapse of Quebec bridge, 1907

Premiere of Les Belles-sœurs, 1968

Boulevard Robert‑Bourassa officially adopted as new name of rue University, 2014

If the dumbasses were to stay home every day there would be no overcrowding on the Metro. Ban the dumbasses! – Blork

One legacy however that I will never never forgive Scotland for is curling. – Jack

My cat who gets lost on staircases could predict increased traffic problems when [the Royalmount mall] opens. – jeather

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AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

LABOUR DAY

Père Marquette school, corner detail

Dorval airport opens, 1941Blue Bird café fire, 1972

Jeanne Mance statue unveiled at Hôtel‑Dieu, 1909

Montreal capitulates to the British, 1760Van Horne mansion demolished, 1973

CKAC makes first broadcast, 1922

Maisonneuve dies in Paris, 1676

Eight sud‑ouest stations of Green Line open, 1978.Bomb at Central Station, 1984

Art heist at the MMFA, 1972

Eucharistic Congress opens, 1910Maurice Duplessis dies, 1959

Cartier monument inaugurated, 1919CBFT begins broadcasts, 1952PdA opens, 1963

Place Ville‑Marie opens, 1962Dawson shooting, 2006

Villeray annexed, 1905Papal mass at Jarry Park, 1984

Earthquake of 1732, estimated at 5.8

Riots against compulsory smallpox vaccination, 1885

Leonard Cohen born, 1934First concert at PdA, 1963

Pierre Trudeau dies, 2000

Oka Crisis ends, 1990 Montreal Neuro opens, 1934

Battle of Longue‑Pointe, 1775Final edition of Montreal Star, 1979

De la Concorde overpass collapses, 2006

New city flag, 2017

It’s the savings of a PPP! Because unions are bad and expensive and the private sector is cost effective and good! Look at all the cash we’re saving from non unionized work! And it’ll be like this for the next 30 years…. :p – uatu

So anywhere between 0 and 25cm of snow over the next day. Yeah, that sounds like Montreal. – Ian

Projet Montréal probably doesn’t want to be the party that killed the bagel. – dewolf

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SECOND DAY OF ROSH HASHANAH

YOM KIPPUR

THANKSGIVING PERSONS DAY

Under the bridge to Château Champlain

Last tram over Victoria Bridge, 1956Belmont Park closes, 1983

Massive pro‑Canada unity rally, 1995

Jacques Cartier visits Hochelaga, 1535Julie Payette becomes Governor‑General, 2017

October Crisis begins with the kidnapping of James Cross, 1970

Cartier names Mount Royal, 1535Last Expos game, Shea Stadium, 2004

Police strike and riot, 1969

First hockey telecast, CBFT, 1952

Earthquake, 3.9, a few minutes after midnight, 2012

Hôtel‑Dieu opens, 1643Gilles Villeneuve wins Canadian Grand Prix, 1978

Canada’s first TV station, VE2EC, begins transmissions, 1931Casino opens, 1993

Metro inaugurated, 1966

Maurice Richard first NHL player to score 500 career goals, 1957Expos’ “Blue Monday” 1981

Brother André canonized, 2010

Pierre Trudeau born, 1919

Occupation of Victoria Square begins, 2011

War Measures Act invoked, 1970

First train through Mount Royal tunnel, 1918

First edition of La Presse, 1884

Molson Stadium inaugurated, 1915

First Canadian city with population of 1M, 1951Jean Drapeau elected first time, 1954

Battle of Châteauguay, 1813

Expo 67 closes, 1967 First tram over Victoria Bridge,1909Second Quebec referendum, 1995

Maurice Richard signs with Habs, 1942Last passenger flight from Mirabel, 2004 Marguerite Bourgeois canonized, 1982

Jean Drapeau elected second time, 1960.He will serve till 1986.

Welcome to the 21st century, where “smart” is utterly stupid. – Blork

I am glad Kate reads QMI publications so I don’t have to. – Tim S.

Do you take pleasure from lying about the content of articles? Do you have a hate-on for The Globe or for the author? You should be ashamed! – Bertrand Marotte, Globe & Mail

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Viger Square detail

First child of French parentage baptized, 1648Occupation of Victoria Square ends, 2011

Louis Cyr dies, 1912Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. shot dead, 2010

TCA begins daily flights to Vancouver, 1939.Jacques Plante adopts first NHL goalie mask, 1959

Gérald Tremblay steps down, 2012Valérie Plante, first woman mayor, elected 2017

Leonard Cohen dies, 2016

Montreal falls to American forces, 1775, their leaders taking over the Chateau Ramezay

Mayor John Easton Mills dies tending typhus victims, 1847

Claire Kirkland Casgrain elected, first female MNA, 1961

Prince of Wales opens Crystal Palace, 1860

NHL founded at Windsor Hotel, 1917

Joseph Guibord dies, 1869Canadiens adopt the Forum as their permanent home, 1926

Regular train service begins between Montreal and New York City, 1875

Montreal Forum opens, 1924Crash of Flight 839, 5 minutes out from Dorval, 1963

Dorchester renamed René‑Lévesque, 1987

First performance by OSM, 1934Anti‑conscription riot, 1944

First car, owned by Ucal‑Henri Dandurand,1899

First regular bus service begins, 1919

Whale oil lamps installed in the Port of Montreal as public lighting, 1815

Christ Church Cathedral opens, 1860First public transit, horse tram, 1861

The more I learn about the First World War, the more I realize it was an absolute clusterfuck of a dumpsterfire if there ever was one – Ginger Baker

I sometimes wonder how much cash and wasted hours in Quebec have been spent on these few dozen women who choose to cover their face. – Kevin

Who really, truly benef its from urban sprawl? Land speculators, developers, builders, real estate agents. Also politicians looking for short term benef its. – Clément

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FIRST DAY OF CHANUKAH

LAST DAY OF CHANUKAH

CHRISTMAS BOXING DAY

Beaubien metro, very cold day

Ritz‑Carlton Hotel opens, 1912

Final printed edition of La Presse, 2017

Émile Nelligan born, 1879Mount Royal cross first lit up, 1924

Nick Rizzuto Jr. gunned down, 2009

Autoroute Métropolitaine opens, 1960

Black Rock placed as memorial, 1859911 becomes emergency number, 1985

Cartierville annexed to Montreal, 1916

Royal Vic opens, 1893Jean Béliveau dies, 2014

Polytechnique massacre, 1989

Montreal Canadiens founded, 1909October Crisis ends, 1970

Maison Radio‑Canada opens, 1973

Art Association opens, 1912 – became MMFATransit riot, 1955Fire in tunnel at Henri‑Bourassa, 1971

All charges dropped against Henry Morgentaler, 1976

CBF goes on air, 1937Camillien Houde re‑elected, 1944

First passenger train crosses Victoria Bridge, 1859

Béliveau, Geoffrion play first NHL game, 1950

First post office, 1792

First freight train crosses Victoria Bridge, 1859

On the cancellation of Formula E:

I guess you could say “they pulled the plug”. – Bert

Formula E has been short-circuited. - Blork

The race is current-ly grounded because of feedback showing resistance to conducting it in the downtown area, not to mention the amplified costs. – LJ

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