Timeline of Montreal history

1780s

• 1781 – Coteau-du-Lac canal completed. It is the first work of its kind in North America.
• 1781-83 – Pierre-Louis Panet practices as a notary in Montreal.
• 1782 – Councillor Finlay proposes to establish English schools in Canadian parishes, and to prohibit using the French language in the Law Courts after a certain time.
• 1783 – The United Empire Loyalists settle in Canada.
• 1783 – The North West Company of Montreal is officially created.
• 1783 – A lottery is started in Montreal to defray the cost of a new jail.
• 1783 – Fleury Mesplet gets out of prison in September.
• 1785 – Fleury Mesplet founds the newspaper The Montreal Gazette / Gazette de Montréal on August 28.
• 1785 – In February, the Beaver Club is formed by members of the North West Company.
• 1785 – A dark day on October 10. Candles are lighted at noon.
• 1785 – Maison Papineau (or Maison John-Campbell) is built at 440 Bonsecours Street. It will be modified in 1831 and 1965.
• 1786 – John Molson founds the Molson Brewery.
• 1787 – Prince William Henry, later William IV, arrives at Montreal on September 8.
• 1787–1811 – John Reid is justice of the peace for the district of Montreal, which governs Montreal's affairs.
• 1788 – The Gazette, formerly a French journal, appears in English.
• 1789 – Lord Grenville proposes that land in Upper Canada be held in free and common soccage, and that the tenure of Lower Canadian lands be optional with the inhabitants.
• 1789 – May 4 – The justices of the peace, who govern Montreal's affairs, order "the price and assize of bread, for this month" to be: "the white loaf of 4lbs. at 13d., or 30 sous", etc., and that bakers of the city and suburbs do conform thereto, and mark their bread with their initials.
• 1789 – Christ Church opens for service on December 20.

1790s

• 1790 – Lower Canada is divided into three districts,instead of two.
• 1791 – Edmund Burke supports the proposed constitution for Canada, saying that "To attempt to amalgamate two populations, composed of races of men diverse in language, laws and habitudes, is complete absurdity. Let the proposed constitution be founded on man's nature, the only solid basis for an enduring government." Fox declares that England can retain Canada "through the good will of the Canadians alone."
• 1791 – The last Jesuit at Montreal, Father Bernard Well, dies towards the end of March or the beginning of April. Jean-Joseph Casot comes to Montreal and donates the Montreal Jesuits' possessions to charity. After this the Jesuit residence is used for government purposes.
• 1791 – On May 8, members of the Presbyterian congregation of Montreal gather to elect a committee to discuss the building of the first Presbyterian church in Canada, later to be known as the St. Gabriel Street Church.
• 1791 – Thomas McCord leases Nazareth fief from the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal nuns for 99 years, but five years later, while he is away on business, the land is illegally sold by McCord's associate, Patrick Langan, to Mrs. Mary Griffin.
• 1792 – On May 7, Lower Canada is divided into 21 counties.
• 1792 – June – Of 50 members of the new assembly for Lower Canada, 15 are English.
• 1792 – December 20 – a fortnightly mail is established between Canada and the United States.
• 1792 – December – A bill to abolish slavery in Lower Canada does not pass.
• 1792 – Opening of the first post office in Montréal on 20 December.
• 1792 – Montrealer Joseph Bouchette is sent to Upper Canada to help survey Toronto Harbour and produces maps that include the Toronto Islands.
• 1793 – Importation of slaves into Canada is prohibited on July 9.
• 1794 – James Monk is appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench of Montreal.
• 1795 – James Monk purchases an estate in Montréal that had previously belonged to the Décarie family. The first Monk residence, built in 1803, and known as Monklands, is now the central section of the present-day Villa Maria.
• 1795 – A Canadian regiment is raised but disbanded, owing to Britain's unfavourable experience of training colonists to use arms.
• 1795 - Isaac Weld observes that the French have "an unconquerable aversion to learn English... But the English inhabitants are, for the most part, well acquainted with the French language." He also observes "the people of Montreal, in general, are remarkably hospitable and attentive to strangers; they are sociable also amongst themselves, and fond in the extreme of convivial amusements."
• 1796 – The Habeas Corpus Act is suspended in Lower Canada.
• 1796 – Attorney-General Jonathan Sewell reports the District of Montreal is satisfied with British rule, but that the French Minister to Washington, Pierre Adet, deludes the people with the statement that France had conquered Spain, Italy and Austria and will shortly attack Great Britain through her colonies.
• 1796 – The Montreal Library, the first public library in the city, is founded.
• 1796 – January – At a general election in Lower Canada, less than half the old members are returned. Some are defeated for preferring English as the language of Parliament.
• 1797 – January 18 – A weekly mail is established between Canada and the United States.
• 1797 – January 18 – This notice appears in the Quebec Gazette: "A mail for the upper counties, comprehending Niagara and Detroit, will be closed, at this office on Monday, 30th instant, at four o'clock in the evening, to be forwarded, from Montreal, by the annual winter express, on Thursday, 2nd February next."
• 1799 – Mary Griffin obtains the lease to Griffintown from a business associate of Thomas McCord.
• 1799 – The census of 1799 lists 9,000 inhabitants while that of 1761 lists 5,500.
• 1799 – Citizens of Montreal petition to secure master's rights over slaves
• 1799 – A measure respecting slavery in Lower Canada does not pass.
• 1799 – Of twenty-one members of Council, in Lower Canada, six are French Canadians.
• 1799 – The Court House is completed.
• 1799 – January 3 – Parliament appropriates $5,000 for a new Montreal Court House.
• 1800 – Alexander Skakel moves from Quebec City to Montréal and establishes the Classical and Mathematical School. This was the principal educational institution for the English-speaking population.
• 1800 – Thomas Walker is elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal County.
• 1800 – Thomas Porteous (merchant) purchases the seigneury of Terrebonne.

19th century

• 1801 – As part of their drive to improve urban planning, Montreal's commissioners decide to take the fortifications down.
• 1801 – Joseph Frobisher and others are incorporated to supply Montreal with water.
• 1802 – The King assents to the endowment of a college at Montreal.
• 1802 – The first unofficial cavalry corps is formed in Montreal.
• 1802 – Alexander MacKenzie is knighted for his achievements in the northwest on February 10.
• 1803 – The central section of the present-day Villa Maria is built. It was the first residence of James Monk.
• 1803 – June – Christ Church destroyed by fire.
• 1803 – Aug 2 – As result of the war between France and England, Canada renews the Alien Act.
• 1803-15 – With the Napoleonic Wars comes a demand for large amounts of squared timber for shipbuilding. Montreal is able to fulfil the demand, and this expansion of the city's economic base is reflected in a rise in population to 26,154 by the year 1825.
• 1803 – The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site built.
• 1804-17 – The demolition of Montréal's fortifications takes 13 years, from 1804 to 1817. Vestiges of the fortifications can still be seen at Champs de Mars, and at the Pointe-à-Callière Museum.
• 1804 – There are 142 slaves in the district of Montreal and more than twice as many in the province.
• 1804 – Locks are placed at Coteau, Cascades and at Long Sault.
• 1805 – Thomas McCord returns to Montreal and recovers his land, which has been divided by Mary Griffin into streets and lots. The name Griffintown sticks.
• 1805 – Thomas Porteous (merchant) opens a store at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, where he also produces potash.
• 1805 – The first water main is constructed.
• 1806 – Parliament orders the publisher of the Montreal Gazette to be arrested for censuring the majority's vote on the jail.
• 1806 – Maison du Pressoir built.
• 1807 – May – The Canadian Courant and Montreal Advertiser are first issued; owner and editor: Nahum Mower.
• 1807 – The brothers James and Charles Brown begin publishing the Canadian Gazette/Gazette canadienne in July.
• 1807 – An Act provides for a new market house in Montreal.
• 1808 – In early 1808, sick and in debt, Edward Edwards sells the Montreal Gazette to the Browns, who the following month announce their plan to revive it.
• 1808 – Importation of slaves is banned.
• 1808 – July 12 – 5 privates of the 100th Regiment, Montreal, are charged with desertion and are transported as felons to New South Wales for 7 years, afterwards to serve as soldiers in that colony.
• 1808-11 – A new prison is built.
• 1809 – August 17 – The foundation of Nelson's Column is laid in Montreal. Installed on Place Jacques-Cartier, this is the second monument to be erected in Montreal.
• 1809 – November 3 – John Molson's steamboat PS Accommodation sails from Montreal to Quebec. It is 85 feet over all, has a 6 horse-power engine, makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on the 6th. The PS Accommodation is the second steam-oat in America and probably in the world. The fare for an adult is £2.10s.od =$10.

1810s

• 1810 – John Jacob Astor founds the Pacific Fur Company. (His great-grandson, John Jacob Astor IV died on the RMS Titanic).
• 1810 – November 26 – John Molson requests the exclusive right to construct and navigate steamboats on the Saint Lawrence River for 15 years.
• 1811 – Founding of the newspaper the Montreal Herald by William Grey and Mungo Kay, founders, owners and publishers.
• 1812 – June 18 – The United States declares war against Great Britain over territorial disputes in Canada (War of 1812). There are 4,000 British troops in Canada. Four Canadian battalions are assembled.
• 1812 – July 11 – U.S. troops invade Canada.
• 1812 – August 20 – Launch of John Molson's second steamboat, the "Swiftsure", at Montreal.
• 1812 – Jean-Marie Mondelet is named coroner for Montreal.
• 1814 – The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain.
• 1814-38 – John (Jean-Baptiste) Delisle is justice of the peace for the district of Montreal.
• 1815 – The Montreal General Hospital will result from a society formed this year.
• 1815 - John Molson builds the luxurious Mansion House Hotel on Rue St. Paul.
• 1815 – March – Parliament votes $25,000 for Lachine Canal.
• 1816 – Population of Montreal is about 16,000.
• 1816 – The National School is opened.
• 1816 – May 14 – Thomas A. Turner and Robert Armour, Esq., are appointed commissioners for the improvement of internal navigation between Montreal and Lachine, under the Provincial Act 48 George III,c.19.
• 1816-18 – John Coape Sherbrooke is the Governor General of British North America; Sherbrooke Street and the town of Sherbrooke are named after him.
• 1817 – The Bank of Montreal begins operations in June. Mary Griffin's husband, Robert, is the first clerk.
• 1817 – Guy Streetias named on August 30 for Étienne Guy, a notary who gave the city the land for the street.
• 1818 – Saint Helen's Island was purchased by the British government. Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène was built on the island as defences for the city, in consequence of the War of 1812.
• 1819 – Darkness at noon on November 9.

1820s

• 1820 – January 29 – Death of George III in the 60th year of his reign. Parliament is dissolved.
• 1820 – June 18 – Governor Earl of Dalhousie arrives.
• 1820 – August 28 – The Montreal Bible Society is established.
• 1821 – Merger of the North West Company of Montreal and Hudson's Bay Company.
• 1821 – The Earl of Dalhousie presents Dalhousie Square to Montreal
• 1821 – Population of Lower Canada is 397,600; of Upper Canada is 129,100
• 1821 – March 17 – Act of incorporation of the Bank of Montreal passed.
• 1821 – March 31 – McGill University established by Royal Charter.
• 1821 – Beginning of Lachine Canal excavations on July 17.
• 1821 – The British garrison starts the construction of the Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène. It is completed in 1823 and partially rebuilt in 1863 after a fire as a preventive measure against an eventual American attack. The garrison leaves the island in 1870.
• 1821 - John Molson's Mansion House Hotel on Rue St. Paul, built 1815, is rebuilt after a fire.
• 1822 – Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal founded.
• 1822 – Parliament grants $50,000 for the Chambly Canal, and $12,000 for the Lachine Canal.
• 1822 – Opening of the British and Canadian School.
• 1822 – Montreal's population is 18,767.
• 1822 – April 23 – First meeting of the Montreal Committee of Trade; Montreal Board of Trade was its successor.
• 1822 – The first iron bridge is erected on March 8.
• 1822 – May 1 – The Montreal General Hospital building is completed; Medical staff: Dr. John Stevenson, A.F. Holmes, William Robertson and William Caldwell.
• 1822 – In September, a whale (42 feet 8 inches in length, 6 feet across the back, and 7 feet deep) finds its way up the Saint Lawrence River. It remains off the city for several days, the river being too shallow for it to go back downriver.
• 1824 – Recollet Convent opens as a school for Irish children.
• 1824 – First Saint Patrick's Day Parade organized on March 17.
• 1824 – Construction on the new Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal) begins, designed by New York architect James O'Donnell, an Irish Protestant.
• 1824 – Founding of the Medical Association of Montreal.
• 1825 – The Lachine Canal is opened, and new industries spring up in the St. Antoine ward area as a direct outcome of the easier transport of goods. Shipping immediately increases and, along with the destruction of the city walls, Montreal comes to be an economic, rather than military, city. Gradually, the city's harbour facilities expand. In 1830 the wharves are rudimentary and stretched for only a short distance along De la Commune Street. By 1848 the wharves are made of dressed stone and extend for over two miles along the riverfront.
• 1825 – Maison Joseph Dagenais built.
• 1825 – First permanent theatre building in Montreal, Theatre Royal, is built by John Molson to attract bigger names to the city, which lacked such a venue. It costs the magnate $30,000. The building is demolished in 1844 and the site was used for the Bonsecours Market. Another venue, also called Theatre Royal, was built not far away in Old Montreal; this building, too, no longer exists.
• 1826-37 and 1842-99 – La Minerve published.
• 1827 – Fleming windmill (13, avenue Strathyre) built.
• 1829 – Most of Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal) is now completed. Work continues for more than a decade on the two bell towers. A new skyline begins to develop.

1830s

• 1830 – Maison Pierre Persillier dit Lachapelle built.
• 1830 – The Montreal harbour is officially incorporated.
• 1831 – Alexis de Tocqueville visits Montreal in August–September.
• 1831 – Dominique Mondelet (seigneur) is elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal County.
• 1832 – Charter of incorporation for the city of Montreal (27,000 inhabitants).

Acte pour incorporer la Cité de Montréal

• 1832 – Exchange coffee house opens.
• 1832 – May 21 – Riot following a partial election: 3 deaths.
• 1832 – Thousands of deaths by cholera in Montreal.
• 1832-34 – Sainte-Anne Market built.
• 1833 – Jacques Viger becomes the first mayor, elected by city councillors.
• 1833 – Coat of arms of Montreal adopted.
• 1833 – February 6 – General fast to pray for the end of the cholera epidemic.
• 1833 – July 14 – communion services begin at Erskine Church
• 1833 – August 18 – First Trans-Atlantic steamship SS Royal William steams from Pictou, Nova Scotia.
• 1834 – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society founded on March 6.
• 1834 – August 1 – Slavery comes to an end in all British territories, including British North America.
• 1834 – Hundreds of deaths from cholera in Montreal.
• 1835 – Founding of the loyalist Montreal Constitutional Association in January.
• 1835 – January – De la Gauchetière Street church opened (Erskine)
• 1835 - April 21. Founding of the German Society of Montreal.
• 1836 – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal is made distinct from the diocese of Quebec on May 13, 1836.
• 1836 – Montreal is lighted by the Montreal Gas Light Co.
• 1836 – On July 21, the first railway line in British North America connects La Prairie with Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
• 1836 – Pied-du-Courant Prison opens.
• 1837 – Lieu historique national de Sir George-Étienne Cartier built. In 1848, Cartier buys the house, where he lives until 1871. It was a hotel after 1871 and in 1973 the house was bought by the federal government.
• 1837 – Britain refuses to grant more home rule in Canada, which leads to the Rebellions of 1837.
• 1837 – On the November 6, a trifling skirmish between two political parties in the Place d'Armes begins the Lower Canada Rebellion.
• 1837 – On December 5, martial law is declared in Montreal.
• 1837 – General suspension of business during the Lower Canada Rebellion.
• 1838 – Coal gas street lighting is introduced.
• 1838 – The Old Montreal Custom House is completed
• 1838 – The "Lord Sydenham" steamboat runs the Lachine Rapids.
• 1838 – Montreal rebel leader Robert Nelson reads a declaration of independence to a crowd at Napierville.
• 1838 – November 3 – Second rebellion in Canada.
• 1838 – December 13 – Sir John Colborne, Governor General, Messrs. Moffat, Stuart and Badgley go to England to represent British Canadian views.
• 1838 – December 21 – Execution of the rebels Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal and Joseph Duquet, at Pied-du-Courant Prison.
• 1839 – February 15 – Chevalier DeLorimier, Charles Hindelang, and others who joined the Rebellion are executed at Pied-du-Courant Prison.
• 1839 – June 24 – Last meeting of the Committee of Trade, forerunner of the Montreal Board of Trade.
• 1839 – September 26 – Canadian rebels are transported to New South Wales.
• 1839 – October 19 – Hon. C. Thompson, Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, arrives. It is determined that Upper and Lower Canada shall share revenue in the ratio of 2 to 3.
• 1830s – Montreal's population surpasses Quebec City's.

1840s

• 1840 – Grand séminaire de Montréal founded by Sulpicians.
• 1840 – The Sulpicians surrender their seigneurial rights to Île de Montréal.
• 1840 – Peter McGill elected mayor of Montreal.
• 1840 – Exports from Montreal total $419,281.
• 1840 – The Act of Union combines Lower Canada and Upper Canada.
• 1840 – April 6 – First meeting to organize the new Board of Trade, Montreal; Hon. Peter McGill in the chair. A committee is named to secure incorporation. Austin Cuvillier is the chairman and James Holmes the secretary at $100 per annum for services, room, fuel and lights.
• 1840 – August 19 – Lachine Rapids first navigated in a steamboat.
• 1841 – Lower Canada becomes Canada East.
• 1841 – January – Provisional directors of the Mercantile Library Association, Montreal, elected.
• 1841 – There are now at least 6,500 Irish Catholics in Montreal. Most of the immigrants to Montreal settle in Griffintown, particularly in the area west of McGill Street (Montreal). In this district, the area between the Lachine Railroad and the Lachine Canal becomes a slum.
• 1841 – West Bell Tower of Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal), called "Perseverance" and housing the 10,900 kg bell "Le Gros Bourdon" / "Jean-Baptiste", completed.
• 1842 – March 19 – The incorporation of the Montreal Board of Trade is proclaimed.
• 1842 – Geological Survey of Canada formed.
• 1842 – In May, Charles Dickens appears at Theatre Royal, in Montreal, surrounded by local talent. While Dickens is in Montreal he produces, directs and acts in three plays.
• 1843 – A Museum of the Geological Survey is begun at Montreal.
• 1843 – The Cornwall Canal and the Chambly Canal are opened.
• 1843 – Survey of the boundary between the U.S. and Canada is begun.
• 1843 – Montreal Police Service established on March 15.
• 1843 – Joseph Bourret is elected Mayor of Montreal.
• 1843 – June 12 – Lord Metcalfe comes to Montreal.
• 1843 – The first labour strike in Canada occurs. The Lachine Canal was widened in the 1840s under conditions of bitter conflict between contractors and Irish labourers. Working 16 hours a day for low wages, labourers were paid in company scrip that could only be exchanged in company stores.
• 1843 – After completion of the East Bell Tower of Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal), called "Temperance" and housing a ten-bell carillon, Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal) is finally completed.
• 1843 – Superior Joseph-Vincent Quiblier authorizes construction of St. Patrick's Church for the city's English-speaking Roman Catholics. Pierre Louis Morin designs this church with the help of the Jesuit Félix Martin.
• 1843 – Foundation of the religious congregation of the Sisters of Providence by Émilie Gamelin.
• 1843 – Foundation of the religious congregation Saints-Noms-de-Jésus-et-de-Marie.
• 1844 – The Mercantile Library Association purchases the "Montreal Library".
• 1844 – Government moves from Kingston to Montreal.
• 1844 – Institut canadien de Montréal founded on December 17.
• 1845 – The Mechanics Institute, Montreal is incorporated
• 1844 – The seat of the government of Canada East and Canada West is moved from Kingston to Montréal.
• 1844 – Église Sainte-Geneviève (Montréal) completed.
• 1845 – James Ferrier is elected Mayor of Montreal.
• 1845 – Opening of the Canadian Baptist College
• 1845 – Ottawa Hotel, Montreal built.
• 1845 – Laurentian Bank.
• 1847 – The Montreal Telegraph Company founded. In 1850, the year prior to Hugh Allan's presidency, Montreal Telegraph Co operated merely 500 miles of line, all in the province of Canada.
• 1847 – Telegraph service between Montréal and Toronto, between Montréal and Quebec City, and between Montréal and New York City established.
• 1847 – Bonsecours Market opened. It housed City Hall between 1852 and 1878.
• 1847 – The first Bonaventure Station is built on Saint Jacques Street as the main terminal for railway from Montreal to Lachine.
• 1847 – The railway from Montreal to Lachine is opened.
• 1847 – Desbarats & Derbyshire (Georges-Édouard Desbarats and Stewart Derbyshire) start a glass factory at Vaudreuil.
• 1847 – January 30 – Lord Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal.
• 1847 – The first mass is celebrated in St. Patrick's Basilica on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
• 1847 – September 1 – Lord Elgin visits the fever sheds at Windmill Point.
• 1847 – October 23 – 65 immigrants die in a week at Windmill Point.
• 1847 – November 1–9, 634 deaths of immigrants since January 1.
• 1847 – November – Death of John Easton Mills, mayor of Montreal, as he tends the sick in the fever sheds
• 1847 – Bank of Montreal Head Office, Montreal built.
• 1847 – Arrival of Brother of Saint-Viateur in Montreal.
• 1847 – Formation of the Montreal Society of Artists.
• 1847-48 – In all, between 3,500 and 6,000 Irish immigrants die of the Typhus epidemic of 1847 at Windmill Point.
• 1848 – January 2 – Wellington and Commissioners streets flooded.
• 1848 – June – Emulating the "Lord Sydenham's" success in 1838, several steamboats run the Lachine Rapids.
• 1848 – July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
• 1848 – August – Abraham de Sola becomes Professor of Hebrew at McGill University; Henry Aspinwall Howe becomes rector of the High School
• 1848 – September 20 – Opening of the Jesuits' College in Montreal
• 1848 – Montreal's road bill is $26,950
• 1848 – Creation of Lachine village.
• 1848 – Foundation of the religious congregation of Sisters of Mercy.
• 1848 – Burt, Boulton Holdings Ltd. is founded in England; eventually it becomes Domtar.
• 1849 – Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal.
• 1849 – Beauharnois Canal is opened.
• 1849 – Road expenditure of Montreal is $14,054
• 1849 – Édouard-Raymond Fabre is elected Mayor of Montreal.
• 1849 – April 25 – For sanctioning the Rebellion Losses Bill, Lord Elgin is mobbed and the Parliament House in Montreal is burned. Parliament will now sit alternately in Quebec and Toronto.
• 1849 – August – Montreal Annexation Manifesto published; it is opposed in Toronto.
• 1849 – Rebellion Losses Bill.
• 1849 – The Bar of Montreal became an independent corporation through the Act to incorporate the Bar of Lower Canada.

1850s

• 1850 – The population of Montreal reaches 50,000.
• 1850 – Anglican Diocese of Montreal established.
• 1850 – Riots, extensive fires and general depression
• 1850 – Montreal's road expenditure $10,631 – the lowest in 23 years
• 1850 – Opening of the Ann Street School.
• 1850 – Value of Montreal's trade $1,793,695.
• 1850 – March 21 – First meeting of the Mount Royal Cemetery Company.
• 1850 – Beginning of the dredging of the St. Lawrence to allow seagoing ships to reach to Montreal.
• 1851 – Grand Trunk Railway Company formed.
• 1851 – Population of Montreal 57,715.
• 1851 – Charles Wilson, Mayor of Montreal, elected by the Council.
• 1851 – Hon. James Morris becomes the first Canadian Post-Master General.
• 1851 – July – The bloomer costume appears in Montreal.
• 1851 – November 19 – First YMCA on the continent opened in Montreal.
• 1851-53 – Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre de Montréal built.
• 1852 – Laval University is opened.
• 1852 – Institut canadien de Montréal (founded 1844) is incorporated.
• 1852 – Hon. Charles Wilson is re-elected Mayor of Montreal
• 1852 – Opening of the Panet Street School
• 1852 – February – The Mount Royal Cemetery Company buys grounds.
• 1852 – July 8 – Beginning of Great Fire of 1852, which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal; 20% of the eastern side of the city is devastated.
• 1852 – October – The Bank of Montreal issues notes like England's – denomination watermarked
• 1852 – December – In one day the sum of $5,000 is raised for a Merchants' Exchange in Montreal.
• 1853 – The first screw steamer up the Saint Lawrence River arrives from Liverpool. Canadian Steam Navigation Company runs regular services from Liverpool and Glasgow to Quebec City and Montreal, twice a month in summer and once a month in winter.
• 1853 – Hon. C. Wilson is the last Mayor the Council of Montreal elects (until Michael Applebaum in 2012).
• 1853 – The Montreal Board of Trade turns down Caughnawaga for the Saint Lawrence River terminus of a canal from Lake Champlain.
• 1853 – May 23 – First charter for steamers from Montreal to Great Britain.
• 1853 – June 9 – Alessandro Gavazzi's anticlerical speeches at Montreal's First Congregational Church (Zion Church) spark riots that kill 40 people.
• 1853 – June 18 – The Grand Trunk Railway opens to Portland. Portland becones the primary ice-free winter seaport for Canadian exports.
• 1853 – July 22 – Pier No.1 of the Victoria Bridge is begun.
• 1853 – October 8 – William Molson Bank opens in Montreal, under the Free Banking Act.
• 1853 – Canal de l'Aqueduc built.
• 1853 – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce built.
• 1854 – Villa Maria founded.
• 1854 – Reciprocity between Canada and the U.S. is adopted
• 1854 – Wolfred Nelson is the first mayor the people of Montreal elect.
• 1854 – Institut canadien de Montréal enters its new building.
• 1854 – March – 2,000 miles of Railway under contract in Canada.
• 1854 – May – The new Montreal post office to have six delivery wickets.
• 1854 – July – Six Nations Indians offer to fight the Queen's enemies anywhere
• 1854 – July 20 – The first stone of the Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence is laid.
• 1854 – August 1 – Messrs. Dorion, Holton, and Young are declared elected for Montreal.
• 1854 – August 2 – First coffer-dam of Victoria Bridge ready for masonry.
• 1854 – October 16 – Twenty-one vessels in port at Montreal.
• 1854 – Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery opens.
• 1854 – St. Ann's Church is consecrated, becoming the centre of Griffintown life; it opens on December 8 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) and was designed by John Ostell. The Sulpicians donated the land for the church and provided the Irish-born pastors: Father Michael O'Brien, Father Michael O'Farrell and Father James Hogan (priest 1867–1884). Some residents of Griffintown claim that St. Ann's ("down the hill") was actually more of a center for the Irish in Montreal than St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal's ("up the hill") was, since most of the city's Irish lived in Griffintown.
• 1854 – Cholera kills more than 1,000 citizens.
• 1854 – Canada Steamship Lines Inc. established.
• 1855 – The Redpath Sugar Refinery opens.
• 1855 – The Mechanics' Institute building opens.
• 1855 – The post office building is completed.
• 1855 – Sir Edmund Walker Head is Governor of British North America.
• 1855 – Hugh Allan and Andrew Allan establish the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, with four steamships fortnightly.
• 1855 – April – Petition for a fixed seat in Parliament is signed.
• 1855 – April 19 – Bank of Montreal's stock to be increased to $2,000,000.
• 1855 – May 19 - The Molson Bank is incorporated.
• 1855 – October 1 – Molson Bank begins business.
• 1855 – October 19 – G.T. Railway is open to Brockville.
• 1856 – The citizens of Montreal elect Henry Starnes Mayor.
• 1856 – Montreal's Water Works made ready for use
• 1856 – The Allan's four steamships, between Montreal and Liverpool bring 3,031 passengers, Westward (average voyage 13 days).
• 1856 – June 9 – Twenty-six vessels in port at Montreal
• 1856 – September 16 – Balloon ascension from Griffintown, in the "Canada"
• 1856 – The Grand Trunk Railway begins through passenger service between Montreal and Toronto on October 27 with great celebrations being held in Kingston to celebrate this accomplishment. The first passenger train leaves Toronto and travels to Montréal in 14 hours.
• 1856 – December 10 – Burning of Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal).
• 1856 – Montreal Lacrosse Club established.
• 1856 – The Old Montreal Courthouse, now known as the Lucien-Saulnier Building, designed by John Ostell, is inaugurated.
• 1856 – Photographer William Notman opens his business.
• 1857 – June 13–26 ocean steamships at Montreal today
• 1857 – June 26 – Fire on board the steamer "Montreal" en route from Quebec to Montreal – 253 lives lost, including Stephen C. Phillips.
• 1857 – Opening of the Saint-James club on July 14; it is still extant and the oldest private club in Montreal.
• 1857 – September 7 – 500 of the 39th Regiment leave Montreal, possibly for the Crimea.
• 1857 – Saint-Enfant-Jésus du Mile-End Church completed.
• 1857 – The lower part of Griffintown entirely submerged by river flooding.
• 1857 – An economic slump provokes numerous bankruptcies.
• 1857–2000 – Seagram opens. The former Seagram headquarters in Montreal now belongs to McGill University under the name Martlet House.
• 1858 – Formation of the Royal Canadian Regiment.
• 1858 – The Natural History Society's Building in Montreal is completed
• 1858 – The Merchants' Exchange Building in Montreal is completed.
• 1858 – C.S. Rodier is elected Mayor of Montreal.
• 1858 – January 5 – J.J.C. Abbott buys the Montreal Bytown and Prescott Railway for $5,300
• 1858 – January 27 – The Queen names Ottawa the seat of government
• 1858 – January 28 – Dorcas Society of the United Presbyterian Church is founded.
• 1858 – February 20 – In Griffintown, beds stand in three feet of water
• 1858 – A group of 158 members left the Institut canadien de Montréal to found the Institut Canadien-français de Montréal, which opted to obey the doctrine of the Catholic clergy and not to lend books judged immoral by it.
• 1858 – Cathédrale Saint-Jacques (now part of UQAM) built.
• 1858 – Édifice Edmonstone, Allan & Co. built.
• 1858 – Riots and street fights run rampant through Griffintown on election day when D'Arcy McGee is chosen to represent the Montreal West riding, including Griffintown, in the federal government.
• 1859 – Mgr Ignace Bourget condemns the Institut canadien de Montréal, excommunicating its members, and on July 7, 1869, Rome adds the institute's Annuaire for the year 1868 to the Catholic Church's Index of prohibited books.
• 1859 – Montreal real estate assessed, $26,812,290; revenue $286,252.
• 1859 – Montreal O.S.S. Co. brings 1,882 cabin and 2,941 steerage passengers.
• 1859 – December 12 – The Victoria Bridge opens.
• 1859 – December 17 – The first passenger train passes through the Victoria Bridge.
• 1859 – The Black Rock is erected by canal workers on Bridge St. to honour the Windmill Point victims of cholera.
• 1859 – Foundation of the National Bank of Canada.

1860s

• 1860 – Victoria Square, Montreal opens.
• 1860 – Maison Boucher built.
• 1860 – Montreal's real estate valued $27,649,550; revenue $316,323
• 1860 – 240 ocean ships bring 118,216 tons to Montréal
• 1860 – February 20 – The wreck of the Allan Line steamship SS Hungarian with a number of Montrealers on board.
• 1860 – April – Hon. Alexander Tilloch Galt's proposed Bank of Issue excites interest.
• 1860 – Formation of the Art Association of Montreal on April 23. It assumed its present name, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 1948–49.
• 1860 – May – Crystal Palace built for the Montreal Industrial Exhibition of 1860.
• 1860 – August 25 – The Prince of Wales visits Montreal. The Prince holds a reception in Hon. Alexander Tilloch Galt's mansion at Sherbrooke.
• 1860 – August 25 – Opening of the Victoria Railway Bridge.
• 1860 – September 28 – Death of Hon. Peter McGill.
• 1860 – November 27 – Opening of the Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal).
• 1861 – Population of Montreal city is now 90,323 inhabitants.
• 1861 – The street horsecar is introduced as public transportation on 27 November. It was operated by Montreal City Passenger Railway Company 1861–1886.
• 1861 – Griffintown again flooded.
• 1861 – Population of Montreal, with suburbs 101,602; of the city only, 91,169.; Montreal's increase in 30 years – 76%.
• 1861 – January – British troops ordered to Canada.
• 1861 – January 18 – A meeting in Montreal, respecting extradition of John Anderson, a slave charged with murder, is addressed by Hon. Messrs. Dorion, Drummond and Holton, Revds. W. Bond, Cordner, Benjamin Holmes and John Dougall, Esqrs., and Dr. Hingston, and opposes surrendering Anderson.
• 1861 – February – John Anderson not to be surrendered without instructions from England.
• 1861 – American Civil War begins in April.
• 1861 – April 15 – Great inundation at Montreal.
• 1861 – June 13 – Prince Alfred arrives in Montreal.
• 1861 – June – John Anderson (escaped slave) reaches England.
• 1861 – June 6 – Formation of the Canada Presbyterian Church by fusion of the Free Church and the United Presbyterian body.
• 1861 – July – Montreal's M.P.P.s are Messrs. Cartier.
• 1861 – December – Six steamers chartered to bring troops to Canada.
• 1861 – St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church (Montreal) founded.
• 1861 – The village of Saint-Jean-Baptist separates from the village of Côte-Saint-Louis on January 5.
• 1862 – Numismatic and Antiquarian Society formed at Montreal.
• 1862 – Jean-Louis Beaudry is elected Mayor.
• 1862 – The Montreal Corn Exchange Association is organized.
• 1862 – Montreal Sailor's Institute founded.
• 1862 – Ocean steamers trading to Montreal have increased from 5,545 tons in 1854, to 62,912; other ocean vessels from 58,416 to 195,348 tons.
• 1862 – January – Military companies are organizing throughout Canada.
• 1862 – January 4 – Victoria Bridge is guarded to prevent its destruction, threatened from the USA.
• 1862 – January – Lord Monck expects Canadians to wear mourning for Price Albert who died December 14.
• 1862 – April 2 – By-law to establish a Montreal Fire Department.
• 1862 – April 28 – The "Shandon" reaches Montreal.
• 1862 – May 20 – The Montreal Water Works are commenced.
• 1862 – May 24 – Ministry gazetted: Hon. J.S. MacDonald, L.V. Sicotte, J. Morris, A.A. Dorion, M.H. Foley, W. McDougall, W.P. Howland, N.J. Tessier, T.D. McGee, F. Evanturel, A. Wilson and J.J.C. Abbott, Q.C., solicitor general for Lower Canada
• 1862 – August 28 – Burial at St. Andrew's of Simon Fraser, after whom the Fraser River is named.
• 1863 – Bounties for USA recruits and substitutes often reach $2,000, inducing kidnapping and contraventions of the British Foreign Enlistment Act, for which heavy bail is exacted. The bonds are estreated, with profit to the Canadian Treasury.
• 1863 – Shipbuilding at Montreal $150,000 in value.
• 1863 – For 16 years Montreal's harbour has been open an average of 238 days: shortest season 224, longest 252 days.
• 1863 – A report on the Ottawa and French River Project shows, Chicago to Liverpool, 760 miles less, by Montreal, than by New York.
• 1863 – The Montreal Corn Exchange is incorporated. – T. Cramp, President, H. Lyman, Vice President, and D.A.P. Watt, Treasurer of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.
• 1863 – Daily capacity of Montreal's water-works increased from 5 to 9 million gallons by a new turbine wheel.
• 1863 – Eight floating elevators at Montreal discharge 24,000 bushels hourly.
• 1863 – Houses built this year in Montreal – 736; in 8 years – 4,014.
• 1863 – Montreal's real estate assessed at $34,832,930; revenue $406,532.
• 1863 – Fire Alarm established on January 19.
• 1863 – May 12 – Protestant House of Refuge in Montreal incorporated.
• 1863 – June 13 – Eighty-six vessels in port at Montreal
• 1863 - The Lachine Rowing club is first established
• 1863 – November 20 – Death of Lord Elgin, formerly Governor of Canada.
• 1863 – Art Association of Montreal, a pioneer Canadian society of artists and art collectors, incorporated.
• 1864 – Buildings erected in Montreal – 1,019.
• 1864 – Since 1840 Montreal has expended $1,724,502 on roads.
• 1864 – The Montreal City Passenger Railway Company has 10 miles of track, $240,000 paid capital and carries 1,485,725 passengers at 5 cents each.
• 1864 – Power derived from the Lachine Canal only 5.124 horse power. It is estimated that nearly a thousand times that power runs to waste at Lachine Rapids.
• 1864 – Ocean-going vessels at Montreal at one time – 82.
• 1864 – Gold medals named after Anne Molson, Shakespeare and Sir William Edmond Logan are founded as prizes for McGill College students.
• 1864 – The Montreal Ocean Steamship Line brings 10,425 passengers from Europe, in an average trip of 12 days and 19 hours.
• 1864 – April 21 – In a published letter T.D. McGee says of Fenianism:- "Even the threat of assassination, covertly conveyed, and so eminently in keeping with the entire humbug, has no terrors for me. I trust I shall outlive these threats.
• 1864 – St. James the Apostle Anglican Church was first opened for worship in May.
• 1864 – June 9 – Absorption of short railways declared dangerous to trade.
• 1864 – June 28 – repeal of the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act.
• 1864 – September – Confederation under discussion; some prefer Union, as tending to community of sentiment.
• 1864 – September 21 – Six companies of Scots Fusilier Guards leave Montreal. Present: Col Dyde, Col. Routh, Major Heward, Major Lyman, and Brigade Major McPherson.
• 1864 – In October, delegates from across British North America developed the terms for Confederation at a three-week conference in Quebec City. After the Quebec Conference, there remained the task of selling Confederation to the citizens.
• 1864 – October – C.J. Brydges passes Confederation delegates over the Grand Trunk Railway.
• 1864 – October 29 – Photographer John G. Parks opens his business in Montreal.
• 1864 – November 10 – Continued examination of raiders at Montreal.
• 1864 – November 30 – Hon. Alexander Tilloch Galt addresses his constituents on Confederation.
• 1864 – December – Mr. Hodges, who helped to build Victoria Bridge is pressing Bulstrode peat into bricks, which burn well.
• 1864 – A committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York favours continued reciprocity because it has increased trade to $300,000,000 since 1854. They desire free navigation of the Saint Lawrence River and Great Lakes.
• 1865 – Canadian Banks can now stipulate any rate of interest.
• 1865 – The Parliament of Upper Canada and Lower Canada favors Confederation.
• 1865 – Increased intercolonial trade is expected to follow Reciprocity, as it is, this year, over half a million less than in the year before the treaty.
• 1865 – The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada is Incorporated.
• 1865 – The Montreal Board of Trade Building erected in 1855 is burned.
• 1865 – William Robb (1836–1915), future treasurer of Montreal, enters Montreal's employ.
• 1865 – The Elizabeth Torrance gold medal for McGill University students is founded.
• 1865 – July 11–14 – Convention at Detroit to promote a new Reciprocity treaty. Montrealers attend, but only to give desired information. The Convention passes resolutions favouring a new Reciprocity treaty.
• 1865 – September 27 – Delegation to Montreal to form an Intercolonial Board of Trade.
• 1865 – December 3 – Church of the Gesu opened. It was built and designed by Irish architect Patrick Keely.
• 1866–1966 – Montreal Technoparc was used as a landfill and dumpsite from 1866 until 1966, and then was paved to serve as a parking lot for Expo 67.
• 1866 – The Montreal Ocean S.S. Co.'s 9 steamships are of 20,152 tons register.
• 1866 – The International Bank and the Bank of Upper Canada disappear from official returns. The Union Bank and the Mechanics Bank is listed.
• 1866 – The U.S. dollar is worth 96 cents.
• 1866 – Molson Bank Building, Montreal built.
• 1866 – Tonnage trading to Montreal – 199,053.
• 1866 – Taxpayers elect Henry Starnes to be Mayor of Montreal.
• 1866 – The Montreal Glass Co., at Hudson, makes chimneys, bottles and insulators.
• 1866 – British and Canadian School is transferred to the Protestant School Board
• 1866 – March 13 – The Prince of Wales Regiment and Battery of Artillery leave Montreal to repel Fenian invaders.
• 1866 – March 17 – The Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty terminates
• 1866 – April 29 – The second building of Erskine Church is opened at the corner of Peel Street and Saint Catherine Street
• 1866 – July 18 – The 47th Regiment reaches Montreal from Kingston.
• 1866 – October 30 – Dinner for Sir George-Etienne Cartier at Montreal.
• 1866 – Ogilvy (Montreal) founded.
• 1866 – First successful transatlantic telegraph cable is laid.
• 1867 – Canada East becomes the Province of Quebec.
• 1867 – The Montreal Presbyterian College is organized and lectures are started at Erskine Church.
• 1867 – The Canadian Bank of Commerce is listed.
• 1867 – The Commercial Bank incorporated with the Merchants Bank.
• 1867 – January 11 – Fenians sentenced at Toronto.
• 1867 – March – Cornerstone of St. Patrick's Hall, Montreal, laid
• 1867 – March 29 – The B.N.A. Act to confederate the provinces passes the British Imperial Parliament.
• 1867 – July 1 – The Dominion of Canada is formed by the confederation of several provinces.
• 1867 – August 1 – The 25th Regiment leaves Montreal.
• 1867 – September 3 – The 69th Regiment arrives in Montreal.
• 1867 – November 4 – Parish Church, Montreal, struck by lightning.
• 1867 – November 6 – The Parliament of the Dominion first meets.
• 1867 – November 18 – Sir John Rose becomes Minister of Finance.
• 1867 – Quebec Liberal Party founded on July 1.
• 1867 – Creation of the Saint-Henri parish starting from the territory of Notre-Dame de Grâce parish.
• 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated by pistol shot in April. He is given a state funeral in Ottawa and interred in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. Patrick J. Whelan, a Fenian sympathizer, is accused, tried, convicted, and hanged for the crime.
• 1868 – Burial of Thomas D'Arcy McGee on April 13.
• 1868 – September 11 – His Lordship Bishop Fulford, the first Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, dies at his residence after a painful illness, and is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery.
• 1869 – First Transcontinental Railroad completed on May 10.
• 1869 – Red River Rebellion.
• 1869 – Eaton's founded.
• 1869 – Ignace Bourget refuses to let Henrietta Brown, widow of typographer Louis-Joseph Guibord (1809–1869), bury her husband's remains in the Côte-des-Neiges Catholic cemetery because he was a member of the Institut canadien de Montréal. Henrietta Brown's lawyer, Joseph Doutre, also member of the Institut canadien de Montréal, ultimately wins his case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on November 28, 1872. (See: Guibord case.)
• 1869 – Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur established.
• 1869-83 – Canadian Illustrated News begins publication.
• 1869 – Montreal Star founded.

1870s

• 1870 – Second Fenian Raid
• 1870 – Merchant's Bank building is built.
• 1870 – Great Scottish Life Insurance building is built.
• 1870 – The Shamrock Lacrosse Club wins a game played against the Indians of Caughnawaga. Father Hogan, pastor of St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal, is leader of the Shamrock Lacrosse Club.
• 1870 – Launch of Montrealers Journal: Opinion Publique, by Laurent-Olivier David.
• 1870 – The village of Lachine becomes the town of Lachine.
• 1871 – Population of Montreal city is now 107,225 inhabitants.
• 1871 – Foundation of Sun Life by Matthew Hamilton Gault.
• 1871 – Visit of the Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in December. At Montreal, he has breakfast with the mayor of the city, and then visits Lachine.
• 1872 – Montreal Exchange created.
• 1872 – Montreal Royals founded.
• 1872-78 – Montreal City Hall is built.
• 1872 – November 21, Lord Dufferin, the Governor-General, formally presents the statue of Queen Victoria in Victoria Square to the city.
• 1872 – Victoria Memorial (Montreal) unveiled on November 21.
• 1873 – Sir George-Étienne Cartier dies in London, and his funeral in Montreal is the largest ever seen in the city. The expenses of his obsequies were borne by the Dominion Government.
• 1873 – École Polytechnique de Montréal founded.
• 1873-82 – Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes de Montréal built.
• 1874 – May – YWCA organized in Montreal.
• 1874 – Édifice des Commissaires built.
• 1874 – Saint Helen's Island becomes a fashionable park.
• 1874 – Shaughnessy House built for Duncan McIntyre by architect William T. Thomas. McIntyre sells it to William Van Horne who in turn sells it to Thomas Shaughnessy. The house is declared a national historic site in 1974 and is now part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Shaughnessy Village was named for Shaughnessy House.
• 1874-78 – The Harbour Commission Building is constructed.
• 1875 – Creation of the town of Saint-Henri.
• 1875 – The village of Outremont separates from the village of Côte-Saint-Louis.
• 1875 – September 2 – The Guibord case occasions some ill feeling in Montreal, but by the energetic action of Dr. William Hales Hingston, the Mayor, there are no riots. The body of Louis-Joseph Guibord is brought to the Protestant cemetery.
• 1875 – Hockey, in the form known today, is first played in Montreal in 1875, according to rules devised by McGill University student.
• 1875 – Municipality of Verdun is created, detached from the parish of Notre-Dame of Montreal.
• 1875 – June 15 – Formation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
• 1875 – Montreal Academy of Music inaugurated.
• 1875 – Montreal and New York City are now linked by train.
• 1875 – Burial of Louis-Joseph Guibord finally accomplished under an armed military escort on November 16.
• 1876 – Dorchester Square opened.
• 1876 – Place du Canada opened.
• 1876 – Inauguration of Mount Royal Park on May 24.
• 1876 – Maison Racine built.
• 1876 – Maison Fortin built.
• 1877 – Montreal Victorias founded.
• 1877 – Lister's antiseptic methods to the Montreal General Hospital.
• 1877 – The first telephone conversation in Quebec.
• 1878 – Université de Montréal is established.
• 1878 – Windsor Hotel completed.
• 1876 – Mount Royal Park opened.
• 1878 – St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church (Montreal) built.
• 1878 – Foundation of the Royal Golf Club of Montreal.
• 1878 – The village Saint-Louis of Mile End separates from the village of Côte-Saint-Louis on March 9.
• 1879 – Mary Gallagher is murdered by jealous rival Susan Kennedy on June 27. It is a sensational story. It's said Gallagher's ghost returns every seven years to haunt Griffintown. Kennedy was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on Dec. 5, 1879, but the sentence was commuted and Kennedy was transferred to the Kingston Penitentiary.
• 1879 – In a strange turn of events, Michael Flanagan, cleared of all charges regarding the death of Mary Gallagher, is loading barges in the Wellington Basin when he falls and drowns on December 5, the very same day Susan Kennedy was supposed to be hanged. He is interred in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery (section N, lot number 00764)
• 1879 – The Art Association of Montreal is built as the result of private generosity.
• 1879 – Robillard Block built.
• 1879 – Printing of the first edition of the newspaper La Patrie by Honoré Beaugrand.

1880s

• 1880 – Bell Canada founded.
• 1881 – Douglas Hospital founded on July 19.
• 1881 – Population of Montreal city is around 140,700 inhabitants.
• 1881 – Montreal is authorized to open a branch of Laval University.
• 1881 – Mark Twain visits in November, remarks that "this is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn't throw a brick without breaking a church window."
• 1882 – Redpath Museum established.
• 1882 – Opening of the Montreal-Sorel railway.
• 1882 – Montreal has its first electric lighting.
• 1882 – The Canadian Pacific hires William Cornelius Van Horne as general manager with an annual salary of $50,000.
• 1883 – First winter carnival in Montreal.
• 1883–1985 – Montreal Locomotive Works opens.
• 1883-84 – Dalhousie train station is built.
• 1884–1933 – Montreal Hockey Club establishd.
• 1884 – First issue of the newspaper La Presse.
• 1884–1920 – Mount Royal Funicular Railway brings sightseers to the top of Mount Royal.
• 1885 – Smallpox epidemic in the summer.
• 1885 – Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway) on November 7. The last spike is driven by Donald Alexander Smith.
• 1885 – The Fraser-Hickson Library opened.
• 1885 – Saint-Joachim de Pointe-Claire completed.
• 1885 – A new Young Men's Society hall (community center) is built – it includes a gymnasium, recreation hall, meeting hall, library and offices.
• 1885 – A smallpox epidemic kills 3,164 Montrealers (out of over 150,000 inhabitants).
• 1885-86 – Massive flooding and fires recorded in Griffintown.
• 1886 – First Trans Canada train departure on June 28.
• 1886 – On July 4, the first scheduled Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental passenger train reaches Vancouver, after travelling for five days, 19 hours. It is the first scheduled train to cross Canada from sea to sea.
• 1886 – Montreal Shamrocks founded.
• 1886 – Worst flooding recorded – also two major fires.
• 1886 – Dominion Bridge Company founded.
• 1886-95 – Montreal Crystals founded.
• 1887 – New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal erected.
• 1887–1889 – Windsor Station (Montreal) built.
• 1888 – Lafontaine Park created.
• 1888 – Mont-Saint-Louis College is founded.
• 1888 – William Cornelius Van Horne becomes President of Canadian Pacific.
• 1889 – Montreal Trust Company founded.
• 1889 – Saint James United Church (Montreal) built in June.

1890s

• 1890 – In the hospital of the Kingston Penitentiary, Susan Kennedy, who had been found guilty of murdering Mary Gallagher in 1879, dies on September 26.
• 1890 – Incorporation of Côte-Saint-Antoine.
• 1890 – Sanctuaire du Saint-Sacrement built.
• 1891 – Population of Montreal city is around 216,650 inhabitants.
• 1891-94 – Monument-National built.
• 1892 – February 1 – The Hon. James McShane is re-elected Mayor of Montreal.
• 1892 – February 21 – Death of Ashton Oxenden, formerly Anglican Bishop of Montreal.
• 1892 – March 8 – The followers of Hon. Honoré Mercier are defeated at the polls by large majorities. Montreal elects only Conservatives, Hon. J.S. Hall and Messrs. Martineau, Auge, Parizeau, Morris and Kennedy, with majorities from 132 to 2,307.
• 1892 – March 28 – Publication of the late J.W. Tempest's will, bequeathing the Art Association of Montreal about $80,000
• 1892 – April 2 – Secret college societies are condemned at the McGill convocation.
• 1892 – April 3 – Bonsecours Market sustains its fourth serious fire. The uninsured loss is $20,000. Many firefighters are narrowly saved from death.
• 1892 – Value of Canada's registered shipping $32,510,775
• 1892 – April 9 – Charles Glackmeyer (1820–1892), for 40 years Montreal's City Clerk (1859–1891), dies.
• 1892 – June 28- July 1 The Second Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, held in London, England, at which Sir Donald A. Smith and Peter Redpath, Esq., represent the Montreal Board of Trade, while favouring closer commercial relations between the Mother Country and dependencies, regards preferential protection as impolitic and inconsistent with economic principles. The Congress favors an imperial commercial code, higher commercial education, decimal money, common weights and measures, and penny postage throughout the Empire.
• 1892 – July – Sir Donald Smith desires the inauguration of the Royal Hospital (costing Lord Mount-Stephen and himself $1,000,000) to be a simple taking of possession by the lame and the sick, for whom it is intended.
• 1892 – July 19 Montreal grants thirty years' franchise to the Montreal Street Railway Company.
• 1892 – November 30 The Montreal Board of Trade protests against civil contracts without tenders.
• 1892 – December 16 Founding of the Montreal Women's Club.
• 1892 – December 31 – Montreal's past year expediture on roads was $959,866.79
• 1892 – December 31 – There have been 1,688 insolvencies with $13,766,191 of liabilities in Canada in twelve months.
• 1892 – The era of public transportation in Montreal begins with the inauguration of the electric tram. The trams constitute a practical way to get from one end of the city to the other, especially for workers. They also make possible the development of new neighbourhoods, since workers can now live at some distance from their workplaces.
• 1892 – Baron de Hirsch Cemetery (Montreal) established.
• 1892 – Viauville established.
• 1893 – Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal established.
• 1893 – Redpath Library built.
• 1893 – The Montreal Hockey Club is the first hockey team to win the newly donated Stanley Cup.
• 1893 – Schulich Library (one of the 13 branches of the McGill Library) built.
• 1893 – Jacques Cartier Monument unveiled.
• 1894 – Pioneers Monument Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled on May 17.
• 1894 – Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral consecrated.
• 1894 – The Montreal Hockey Club win the Stanley Cup.
• 1894 – The name of Côte-Saint-Antoine is officially changed to Westmount.
• 1894 – Elizabeth Binmore is the first woman graduate of McGill University to obtain the degree of M.A.
• 1895 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled on April 24.
• 1895 – The Château Ramezay is turned into a museum.
• 1895 – The Montreal Victorias win the Stanley Cup in 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898.
• 1895 – The Macdonald Monument in memory of John A. Macdonald is unveiled by Earl of Aberdeen, Governor General of Canada on June 6.
• 1895 – The monument in memory of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, by artist Louis-Philippe Hébert, was unveiled on July 1 on Place d'Armes.
• 1895 – The village of Outremont becomes the town of Outremont.
• 1895 – Birth of the "École Littéraire de Montréal" (AKA Literary School of Montreal).
• 1895 – The village Saint-Louis of Mile-End becomes the town of Saint-Louis on November 21.
• 1895 – The prison governor's residence was built and named after Charles-Amédée-Vallée, the last governor of the Montreal prison.
• 1896 – Carmel de Montréal built.
• 1896 – Creation of village of Villeray on October 30.
• 1896 – Motion pictures are first shown in Canada for the first time at the Palace Theatre at 972 St. Lawrence, corner Viger, on June 27.
• 1897 – Lion of Belfort (Montreal) unveiled on May 24.
• 1897 – A survey of living conditions is conducted by Mr. Herbert Brown Ames. He points out the discrepancy in living conditions between wealthy areas of Montreal ('the upper city') and the areas inhabited by the working class ('the city below the hill'): "The sanitary accommodation of 'the city below the hill' is a disgrace to any nineteenth century city on this or any other continent. I presume there is hardly a house in all the upper city without modern plumbing, and yet in the lower city not less than half the homes have indoor water-closet privileges. In Griffintown only one home in four is suitably equipped, beyond the canal (in Pointe-Saint-Charles) it is but little better. Our city by-law prohibits the erection of further out-door closets, but it contains no provision for eradicating those already in use. With sewers in almost every street, no excuse for permitting this state of affairs to continue now exists, except it lies in neglect and in greed."
• 1897 – Foundation of Builders' Exchange, which becomes the Montreal Construction Association,
• 1897 – Paul Bruchési becomes bishop of Montreal.
• 1897 – Canadian Car and Foundry's history goes back to 1897, but the main company is established in 1909 from an amalgamation of several companies and later becomes part of Hawker Siddeley Canada through the purchase of Avro Canada in the late 1950s.
• 1898 – Place Viger constructed.
• 1898 – Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal founded on June 1.
• 1898 – Montreal Arena opens on December 31.
• 1898 – London and Lancashire Life Building, Montreal completed.
• 1898–1903 – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church built.
• 1899 – The Montreal Shamrocks win the Stanley Cup.
• 1899 – Incorporation of Loyola College on March 10.
• 1899 – October 30 – The First Canadian Contingent of the Boer War sets sail to South Africa on the SS Sardinian of the Allan Line, bearing Canada's initial quota of fighting men, including the men of "E Company" of Montreal.
• 1899 – In the afternoon of November 21, Montrealers see their first car. At the wheel of this first steam-powered automobile is Ucal-Henri Dandurand, accompanied by Mayor Raymond Préfontaine. They descend steep Côte du Beaver Hall without difficulty and climb back up through the streets in the same fashion. The first car weighs between 500 and 600 pounds and reaches the dizzying speed of 15 to 20 km per hour.
• 1899 – La Presse building is built.
• 1899 – CCM (hockey) founded.
• 1899 – Construction of a dam in the Old Port of Montreal: there will be no more flooding.
• 1900 – Re-election of Raymond Préfontaine to Montreal City Hall on February 1.
• 1900 – Desjardins Group founded.
• 1900 – The Montreal Shamrocks win the Stanley Cup.

20th century

• 1901 – Montreal Light, Heat & Power established.
• 1901 – Population of Montreal city is around 267,730 inhabitants.
• 1901 – The city counted 1033 men and 4 women in the Chinese community. Clustered together along Saint Laurent Boulevard and De la Gauchetière Street, various Chinese establishments also serve as living quarters for the first Chinese Montrealers and, from the end of the 19th century onwards, constitute a distinctive neighbourhood: Chinatown.
• 1901 – Mount Royal Cemetery Company establishes the first crematorium in Canada.
• 1901-09 – Saint-Édouard Church built.
• 1901–1903 – Église Saint-Léon de Westmount built.
• 1902 – The Montreal Hockey Club win the Stanley Cup.
• 1902 – Election of James Cochrane to Montreal City Hall on February 1.
• 1902 – Rio Tinto Alcan founded.
• 1903 – The Montreal Stock Exchange occupes the building from 1904 to 1965. Today, Centaur Theatre is in the building.
• 1903 – Monument to Ignace Bourget is unveiled in front of Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral on June 24. Sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert.
• 1903 – General strike by the tram employees of Montreal on February 6.
• 1903 – The building of the Centre d'histoire de Montréal is erected.
• 1903 – City library on Sherbrooke Street is completed.
• 1903 – Foundation of the Insurance Company "La sauvegarde".
• 1903 – CMC Electronics founded.
• 1904 – Montreal Children's Hospital founded.
• 1904 – CPR Angus Shops built.
• 1904 – Election of Hormidas Laporte to Montreal town hall on February 18.
• 1904 – During the federal election, Léo-Ernest Ouimet uses his kinetoscope to project election results on to the front wall of the newspaper La Patrie.
• 1905 – The name Saint Laurent Boulevard is made official.
• 1905 – A bylaw makes Saint Laurent Boulevard the dividing line between the city's eastern and western sections. Street numbers begin at the boulevard and continue outward, with street names being suffixed by West or East, depending on their orientation.
• 1905 – Annexation of Villeray village to Montreal on September 11.
• 1905 – Annexation of Saint-Henri to Montreal on November 27.
• 1905 – Dominion Textile founded.
• 1906 – Opening of the first cinema in Montreal. The Ouimetoscope is inaugurated on January 1.
• 1906 – The Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup.
• 1906 – Dominion Park opens.
• 1906 – First demonstration of a zeppelin in Montreal.
• 1906 – Bordeaux-Cartierville becomes a village.
• 1906 – The McGill Student Union Building opens, In 1965, the building becomes the new home of the McCord Museum.
• 1906 – Dominion Car and Foundry incorporated.
• 1906-09 – Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Montreal built.
• 1907 – The village of Verdun becomes the town of Verdun on February 28.
• 1907 – Boer War Memorial unveiled on May 24.
• 1907 – Inauguration of Blue Bonnets Horse Race track on June 14.
• 1907 – The Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup.
• 1907 – Head Office of Royal Bank of Canada moved from Halifax to Montréal.
• 1907 – Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine founded.
• 1907 – Canadian Express built.
• 1907 – Davis House (later Purvis Hall) built for Mortimer Davis; architect Robert Findlay.
• 1907-12 – Ross and Macdonald began operations.
• 1908 – Election of Louis Payette to Montreal City Hall on February 3.
• 1908 – The Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup.
• 1908 – Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant opened.
• 1908 – The statue of John Young is erected. It is the work of sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert.
• 1909 – March 17 - Runaway train crashes into Windsor Station (Montreal).
• 1909 – December 4 – Montreal Canadiens are founded
• 1909 – Jubilee Arena opens.
• 1909 – Jeanne Mance Monument unveiled on September 2.
• 1909 – Annexation of Saint-Louis city to Montreal city in November.
• 1909 – Canada Car Company merges with several other companies to form Canadian Car and Foundry.
• 1908-10 – Côte-des-Neiges annexed.
• 1909-56 – The Montreal and Southern Counties Railway is an interurban streetcar line that ran between Montréal and Granby.

1910s

• 1910 – Foundation of the newspaper Le Devoir on January 10.
• 1910 – Election of James J. Guerin to Montreal city hall on February 1.
• 1910 – The Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup.
• 1910 – Maisonneuve Park established.
• 1910 – Ahuntsic annexed to Montreal.
• 1910 – Adoption of a bill allowing multiple annexations of suburbs to Montreal on June 4.
• 1910 – Côte-Saint-Paul merges into the city of Montreal at the same time as neighbouring Ville-Émard.
• 1910 – Great Eucharistic Congress in Montreal on September 6.
• 1911 – The McGill Daily founded.
• 1911 – SNC-Lavalin founded.
• 1911 – Église Saint-Viateur d'Outremont built.
• 1911 – Shaw and Décary buy in one day the grounds of the future town of Mount-Royal for Canadian National Railway..
• 1911 – John Young Monument unveiled on October 4; it was built in 1908.
• 1912 – The Sulpicians start building their library on Saint Denis Street.
• 1912 – Calvary Congregational Church and Bethlehem Congregational Church unite under the Calvary name.
• 1912 – Election of Louis-Arsène Lavallée to Montreal City Hall on February 1.
• 1912 – April 15 – The sinking of the steamship Titanic with a number of Montrealers on board.
• 1912 – September 3 – Jack Haney on "The first Trans-Canada Auto trip" (Halifax: August 27, 1912, to Victoria: October 17, 1912) arrives in Montreal.
• 1912 – December 31 – Ritz-Carlton Montreal opens.
• 1912 – Montreal Pool Room opens.
• 1912 – Saint Helen's Island Lighthouse built. It is located below the Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène at the west side of the island in Montreal harbor.
• 1912 – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts moves into its present home, a neoclassical building designed by Edward and W.S. Maxwell.
• 1912 – Nesbitt, Thomson and Company founded.
• 1912-13 – Montreal Municipal Court built. It opens in January 1914.
• 1912-14 – Maisonneuve Market is built. This Beaux-Arts building is the crowning achievement of architect Marius Dufresne.
• 1912–2004 – J B Lefebvre begins operations.
• 1913 – May 29 – The sinking of the steamship RMS Empress of Ireland with a number of Montrealers on board.
• 1913 – Establishment of a permanent Yiddish theatre troupe in Montreal.
• 1914 – Jewish Public Library (Montreal) founded.
• 1914 – Election of Médéric Martin to Montreal City Hall on April 6.
• 1914 – Maisonneuve Market opens in September.
• 1914 – The Edward VII Monument is unveiled in Phillips Square on October 1.
• 1914 – Foundation of the Catholic Working Federation of Montreal.
• 1915 – Saint-Sulpice Library opens.
• 1915 – May 7 – The sinking of the RMS Lusitania with a number of Montrealers on board.
• 1915 – Théâtre Saint-Denis built.
• 1915 – Inauguration of new custom house at 105 McGill Street (Montreal).
• 1915 – Fermière Monument unveiled.
• 1915 – William Cornelius Van Horne dies on September 15 in Montreal.
• 1915-18 – Château Dufresne built.
• 1916 – March 1 – Fire burns the Grand Trunk Railway Station.
• 1916 – The Montreal Canadiens win their first Stanley Cup on March 30.
• 1916 – Bordeaux-Cartierville annexed on December 22.
• 1916 – Les petits Baigneurs completed.
• 1917 – L'Action nationale launched.
• 1917 – Conscription Crisis of 1917: riots break out in the streets of Montréal.
• 1917 – Abitibi Power and Paper Company founded.
• 1918 – Province of Quebec puts Montreal under its direct control.
• 1918 – Annexation of Maisonneuve to the city of Montreal on February 9.
• 1918 – The Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau is established.
• 1918 – Mount Royal Tunnel completed. First train under the mountain on October 21; it transports soldiers leaving for Sevastopol in Russia.
• 1918 – Canadian National Railway created.
• 1919 – CINW (originally XWA) Montreal is the first radio station to broadcast regular programming, on December 1.
• 1919 – Fairmount Bagel opens. Montreal-style bagel introduced.
• 1919 – Church of the Madonna della Difesa inaugurated.
• 1919 – The monument to Sir Mount Royal on September 6; sculptor George William Hill.
• 1919 – The Montreal Clock Tower cornerstone is laid by the Prince of Wales, on October 31. It is completed in 1922.
• 1919 – On November 22, the city's first regular bus service is launched on St-Étienne Street, better known as Bridge St.
• 1919 – Canadian International Paper Company formed.
• 1919 – Monument aux braves de N.D.G. unveiled.

1920s

• 1920 – Mount Royal Arena opened.
• 1920 – The monument of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux is inaugurated on June 24 (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Lafontaine Park; sculptor Alfred Laliberté and architect Alphonse Venne. In 1956, the monument is moved to its current location.
• 1920 – The Prohibition movement in the United States turns Montreal night life into a haven for Americans looking for alcohol.
• 1921 – McCord Museum established.
• 1921 – Société des alcools du Québec is established, headquartered in the former Pied-du-Courant Prison. Originally it's called the Commission des liqueurs du Québec.
• 1921 – The Allen opens on May 20, as the Palace Theatre. It was renamed Allen Theatre in 1922.
• 1922 – Mount Royal Hotel opens.
• 1922 – The construction of Édifice Ernest-Cormier begins.
• 1922 – CKAC radio makes its first broadcast September 22. This is the world's first commercial station broadcasting in French.
• 1922 – Dante Monument unveiled on October 22.
• 1923 – The congregation Notre-Dame de Montréal is founded by Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie.
• 1923-24 – Rialto Theatre (Montreal) constructed.
• 1923-83 – Belmont Park, Montreal begins operations.
• 1924 – Montreal Maroons founded.
• 1924 – An illuminated Mount Royal cross is installed by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste. It is now owned by the city.
• 1924 – Election of Charles Duquette to Montreal City Hall on March 25.
• 1924 – Foundation of "l'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences" on May 14.
• 1924 – Bank of Montreal acquires Molson Bank on October 30.
• 1924 – Montreal Forum opens on November 29.
• 1924 – Samuel Bronfman sets up shop as a distributor, founding the Distillers Corporation in Montréal, specializing in cheap whiskey, and takes advantage of prohibition in the United States. Distillers Corporation acquires Joseph E. Seagram & Sons of Waterloo, Ontario from the heirs of Joseph Seagram in 1928.
• 1924-25 – Saint-Ambroise Church built.
• 1925 – The Roddick Gates are formally opened by Amy Redpath Roddick on May 28, 1925.
• 1925 – June 10 – Canada's Methodist churches, Congregational churches, and a large portion of its Presbyterian churches join to form the United Church of Canada.
• 1925 – Power Corporation of Canada founded.
• 1925 – Hallward House (later Martlet House) inaugurated. It once housed the Seagram headquarters; now Martlet House belongs to McGill University.
• 1925-27 – Eaton's store constructed.
• 1926 – Montreal Curb Market/Canadian Stock Exchange created.
• 1926 – The Patriotes Monument was unveiled on June 24 (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day); it is the work of Alfred Laliberté. On each of its three faces a carved bronze medallion represents Chevalier de Lorimier, Louis-Joseph Papineau, and Wolfred Nelson. The monument is in Place des Patriotes, in front of the former Pied-du-Courant Prison.
• 1926 – The Monitor (Montreal) launched.
• 1926 – Reitmans founded.
• 1927 – Collège André-Grasset is founded by the Sulpicians.
• 1927 – Laurier Palace Theatre Fire.
• 1927 – The era of Montreal's first skyscrapers begins: Old Royal Bank Building, Montreal, the Sun Life Building, Aldred Building, etc. Until 1927, legislation prevented builders from putting up structures over ten stories high.
• 1927 – Dunn's founded.
• 1928 – Théâtre Outremont built.
• 1928 – Saint-Hubert Airport built.
• 1928 – Schwartz's established.
• 1928 – Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines founded.
• 1928 – Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf established.
• 1929 – Montreal Masonic Memorial Temple opens on June 22.
• 1929 – Collège de Maisonneuve established.
• 1929-85 – Seville Theatre operates.

1930s

• 1930 – Cabaret Frolics opens.
• 1930 – Jacques Cartier Bridge opens on May 14 as the Harbour Bridge; it will be renamed for Jacques Cartier in 1934.
• 1930 – Lachapelle Bridge opens on May 24.
• 1930 – Maison Cormier built.
• 1930 – The foundation of the monument of Jean Vauquelin (1728–1772) – defender of Louisbourg and Quebec City – is laid in Montreal; sculptor Paul-Eugène Benet. The Vauquelin statue and Nelson's Column face each other, just as the French and English colonial forces did in days gone by.
• 1930 – Beginning of commercial flights from Montreal.
• 1930 – Robert Burns Memorial unveiled on October 18.
• 1930-78 – Montréal-Matin published.
• 1931 – Eaton's Ninth Floor (Montreal) opens on January 26.
• 1931 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montréal. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper La Presse.^[18]
• 1931 – Sun Life Building completed.
• 1931 – Montreal Botanical Garden founded.
• 1931 – Aldred Building completed.
• 1932 – Chalet du Mont-Royal inaugurated.
• 1932 – Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul opens.
• 1932 – Wilensky's opens.
• 1933 – Jean-Talon Market and Atwater Market open.
• 1933 – CBME-FM launched.
• 1933 – Montreal Children's Theatre founded.
• 1933–1972 – Montreal Junior Canadiens operated.
• 1934 – Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital founded.
• 1934 – Montreal Neurological Institute founded.
• 1934 – Honoré Mercier Bridge completed in summer.
• 1936 – Air Canada founded on August 11 as Trans-Canada Airlines.
• 1936 – The Levis tower is built as a water reservoir and observation deck on Saint Helen's Island.
• 1936-37 – The Montreal Indians appear briefly in the 1936 and 1937 seasons and disappear thereafter. The team is a member of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, a league that preceded the Canadian Football League.
• 1937 – Snowdon Theatre opens in February.
• 1937 – Holt Renfrew constructed in Montreal.
• 1937 – The Sulpicians are put under Quebec government trusteeship.
• 1937 – Pie-IX Bridge opens.
• 1937 – CBF-FM launched.
• 1938 – La Binerie Mont-Royal founded.
• 1938-39 – Saint-Jean-Berchmans Church built.
• 1939-45 – World War II – Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène serves to contain 250 prisoners of war, considered Nazi supporters, fascists or deserters.
• 1939 – Collège International Marie de France founded.
• 1939 – Pierre Le Gardeur Bridge built.
• 1939 – The Flag of Montreal is first displayed in May, and is based on the city's coat of arms. The flag's proportions are 1:2 in a symmetric cross.
• 1939-44 – During World War II, Mayor Camillien Houde protests against conscription and urges Montrealers to disobey the federal government's orders. Ottawa is furious over Houde's insubordination and holds him in a prison camp until 1944, when the government is forced to institute conscription (see Conscription Crisis of 1944).
• 1939-45 – Canadian Power Boat Company operated.

1940s

• 1940 – Allan Memorial Institute founded.
• 1941 – Il Cittadino Canadese founded.
• 1941 – Opening of the Dorval International Airport on September 1.
• 1941-51 – Montreal's population grows by 20% and Toronto's by 25%.^[19]
• 1942 – Montreal Laboratory. The first eight staff arrive in Montreal at the end of 1942, and occupy a house belonging to McGill University.
• 1942 – 300th anniversary of Montreal's founding.
• 1943 – Central Station (Montreal) opens.
• 1943 – Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal formed.
• 1943 – Recluse Sisters are founded in Alberta. Their inspiration is Jeanne Le Ber.
• 1944 – Canadian Vickers operates in Canada during the early part of the 20th century until 1944, building aircraft and ships.
• 1944 – Montreal HMCS Donnacona appear in the Grey Cup in the 1944 season and win the cup that year.
• 1944 – Hydro-Québec founded on April 14 as the Quebec Hydroelectric Commission by nationalizing Montreal Light, Heat and Power.
• 1944 – A RAF Liberator Bomber, fully loaded for a flight to England, crashes into a row of houses in Griffintown on April 25. 15 to 20 fatalities noted.
• 1944 – Camillien Houde is greeted after 4 years in jail by thousands of people at Windsor Station on August 14.
• 1944 – Camillien Houde is elected mayor on December 11.
• 1944 – Business Development Bank of Canada is started.
• 1945 – Radio Canada International launched.
• 1945 – CJAD's first broadcast.
• 1946 – Establishment of Montreal Alouettes, the city's CFL team by the renaming of a team that had been in existence since 1872.
• 1946 – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation launched on February 25.
• 1946 – CBM-FM launched.
• 1946 – CINF first airs.
• 1946-73 – Notre-Dame-de-Grace Maple Leafs operated.
• 1947 – 514 area code is established.
• 1947 – International Civil Aviation Organization established in April.
• 1947 – Au Faisan Doré opens.
• 1947 – CKBE-FM launched.
• 1947 – CAE Inc. founded as Canadian Aviation Electronics.
• 1948 – Montreal Shamrocks GAA established.
• 1948 – Lachine Museum founded.
• 1949 – Norgate shopping centre built.
• 1949 – City of Montreal buys Oxford Park, Montreal.
• 1949 – Iron Ore Company of Canada founded.
• 1940s – Gibeau Orange Julep first built - original orange-shaped building will be torn down for the construction of the Decarie autoroute and rebuilt in 1965.

1950s

• 1950 – The Sulpicians, in financial straits, are obliged to sell their property west of Atwater to industrialist Alexis Nihon.
• 1951 – Congregation Shaare Zedek founded.
• 1951 – Théâtre du Nouveau Monde founded.
• 1951 – Birth of the Commission de Transport de Montreal, precursor of today's STM.
• 1951 – Station Centrale d'Autobus Montreal built.
• 1951 – St-Hubert opened.
• 1951-52 – Saint-Sixte Church built.
• 1951-61 – Montreal's population grows by 35% and Toronto's by 45%.^[20]
• 1951-61 – Civic Action League operated.
• 1952 – Bus service replaces streetcars on Boulevard St-Laurent. Gradually, trams began to be replaced by buses. A subway was about to be built, and the decision was made to retire the trams in 1959.
• 1952 – CBFT first air on September 6.
• 1953 – Montreal Barbarians established.
• 1953 – Pope Pius XII names Paul-Émile Léger, a Sulpician, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1953 – Wilfrid Laurier memorial unveiled on October 12.
• 1954 – CBMT first airs on September 6.
• 1954 – CJMS first airs.
• 1954 – Montreal Heart Institute founded.
• 1954 – Greater Montreal Real Estate Board founded.
• 1954 – Dic Ann's Hamburgers founded.
• 1954 – Jean Drapeau is elected for the first time.
• 1954 – The Globe founded as Midnight.
• 1954 – Saint-Arsène Church built.
• 1955 – March 17 – Richard Riot on Saint Catherine Street following the suspension of Maurice Richard.
• 1955 – Gaz Métro founded as the Corporation de gaz naturel du Québec.
• 1955 – Many buildings are demolished as Dorchester Street is widened into a boulevard.
• 1957 – The lowest temperature ever recorded was −37.8 °C (−36 °F) on January 15.
• 1957 – CKMI-TV first air on March 17.
• 1957 – Cogeco founded.
• 1958 – Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre founded.
• 1958 – Queen Elizabeth Hotel completed.
• 1958 – Laurentian Autoroute inaugurated.
• 1958 – Côte-Saint-Luc village becomes the town of Côte Saint-Luc.
• 1959 – Inauguration of the Saint Lawrence Seaway on June 26.
• 1959 – On August 30, having completed its route along the Papineau-Rosemont line, the last streetcar entered the station at 4:50 p.m., ending 67 years of tram service in the city.
• 1959 – Centre Rockland opens.
• 1959 – LaSalle College established.
• 1959 – CKGM first airs.

1960s

• 1960 – Paul Sauvé Arena built. It will be demolished in 1996.
• 1960 – CFOX launched. It will go off air in 1989.
• 1960 – Opening of the Metropolitan elevated highway (Autoroute 40) between Côte-de-Liesse and Pie-IX.
• 1960 – Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom completed.
• 1961 – CFCF-TV first airs on January 20.
• 1961 – Lafleur Restaurants open.
• 1961 – TVA first airs on February 19.
• 1961 – Ultramar founded.
• 1961 – Astral Media founded.
• 1961-71 – Montreal's population grows by 20% and Toronto's by 25%.^[21]
• 1962 – Montreal's first underground tunnel between Place Ville-Marie and Central Station.
• 1962 – Place Ville-Marie opens.
• 1962 – CIBC tower constructed.
• 1962 – CJFM-FM first airs.
• 1962 – Hydro-Quebec building completed.
• 1962 – Tour Telus constructed, known initially as CIL House.
• 1962 – CFMB launched.
• 1962 – Pont Viau opened.
• 1962 – Champlain Bridge, Montreal opens on June 29.
• 1962-72 – Front de libération du Québec operated.
• 1963 – Stock Exchange Tower constructed.
• 1963 – CHOM-FM first airs.
• 1963 – TVA (TV network) launched.
• 1963 – Place Versailles opens with Steinberg, Miracle Mart and some 30 smaller stores.
• 1963 – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier built.
• 1963 – Cinémathèque québécoise founded.
• 1963 – The town of Rivière-des-Prairies becomes part of the city of Montreal.
• 1964 – Le Journal de Montréal established.
• 1964 – CKMF-FM first airs.
• 1964 – Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art established.
• 1964 – Establishment of Le Journal de Montréal by Pierre Péladeau on July 15.
• 1964 – Vidéotron founded.
• 1964-67 – Place Bonaventure constructed.
• 1965 – Fairview Pointe-Claire inaugurated.
• 1965 – Quebecor founded by Pierre Péladeau.
• 1965 – Lakeshore General Hospital founded.
• 1965 – Île Notre-Dame created.
• 1965 – Herzing College founded.
• 1966 – Montreal Planetarium inaugurated on April 1.
• 1966 – Inauguration of Montreal subway on September 14.
• 1966 – Galeries des Sources opened.
• 1966 – Montreal Aquarium built.
• 1966 – De Maisonneuve Boulevard is created as a single one-way street, following the construction of the Montreal Metro.
• 1967 – Casino de Montréal built as the French pavilion at Expo 67.
• 1967 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel opens on March 11.
• 1967 – La Ronde (amusement park) opens in April.
• 1967 – Montreal Biosphère opens as the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67.
• 1967 – Château Champlain constructed.
• 1967-72 – Expo Express in use.
• 1967 – Charles de Gaulle's Vive le Québec libre speech delivered on July 24.
• 1967 – Place Alexis Nihon opens.
• 1967 – Westmount Square constructed.
• 1967 – Saint Joseph's Oratory completed.
• 1967 – Institut de pastorale des Dominicains established.
• 1967 – Habitat 67 built as part of Expo 67.
• 1967 – Mouvement Souveraineté-Association formed.
• 1967 – Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne founded.
• 1967 – Opening of the Décarie motorway.
• 1967 – Expo 67.
• 1967 – MEGA Brands founded.
• 1967 – Mikes (restaurant) founded.
• 1967 – Collège Ahuntsic established.
• 1968 – Plaza Côte-des-Neiges constructed.
• 1968 – Galeries d'Anjou opens.
• 1968 – 500 Place d'Armes completed.
• 1968 – Parti Québécois founded.
• 1968 – Future Electronics founded.
• 1968 – Cégep du Vieux Montréal established.
• 1969 – On February 13, the Montreal Stock Exchange is attacked by the Front de libération du Québec with a massive bomb that wounded 38 people.
• 1969 – Papineau-Leblanc Bridge opens.
• 1969 – Centaur Theatre founded; it is still the city's largest English-language theatre company.
• 1969 – Sir George Williams Computer Riot.
• 1969 – Montreal International Auto Show is launched.
• 1969 – Institut national de la recherche scientifique established.
• 1969 – École nationale d'administration publique established.
• 1969 – La Joute built.
• 1969 – McLennan Library completed.
• 1969 – Concordia University Television founded.
• 1969 – Provigo founded.
• 1969 – Montreal Expos founded. First game is at Jarry Park Stadium on April 14.
• 1969 – October 7 - Murray-Hill riot. Illegal 16-hours strike of the Montreal police, bringing chaos in the city.
• 1969 – Aquarius Records is a Canadian independent record label, is established during the summer of 1969.
• 1969 – Loto-Québec founded.

1970s

• 1970 – January 1 – Birth of the Montreal Urban Community, intended to oversee the municipalities on the Île de Montréal. It operated until the end of 2001.
• 1970 – St. Ann's Church (Griffintown) is torn down.
• 1970 – Burnside Hall completed.
• 1970 – The Lachine Canal is closed to shipping.
• 1970 – Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec founded.
• 1970 – October Crisis.
• 1971 – Canadian Jewish News launched.
• 1971 – John Abbott College established.
• 1971 – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma founded.
• 1971 – Palais de justice de Montréal completed.
• 1971 – Montreal receives the biggest snowfall recorded for a year: 383.3 cm (12.5 feet).
• 1971-84 – Nova Scotia Voyageurs operated; had played as the Montreal Voyageurs from 1969-1971 in the AHL.
• 1972 – Acadie (electoral district) created.
• 1972 – Blue Bird Café fire.
• 1972-75 – Montreal Bleu Blanc Rouge operated in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
• 1973 – Van Horne Mansion torn down.
• 1973 – Cavendish Mall built.
• 1973 – Maison Radio-Canada constructed.
• 1973 – Le Jour founded.
• 1973 – First election of a school commissioner in Montreal.
• 1973 – Cégep André-Laurendeau established.
• 1974 – École de technologie supérieure established.
• 1974 – Birth of Loyola College.
• 1974 – Cinémas Guzzo founded.
• 1975 – Télé-Québec first airs on January 19.
• 1975 – On January 24, Richard Blass is hit twenty three times by police bullets, dying instantly.
• 1975 – Place Vertu opens.
• 1975 – CINQ-FM first airs.
• 1975 – The highest temperature ever recorded was 37.6 °C (100 °F) on August 1.
• 1975 – Montréal-Mirabel International Airport opened on October 4.
• 1975 – Montreal Canadiens face the Russian Red Army team on December 31.
• 1975 – Parasuco founded.
• 1976 – Montreal Biodome built as the velodrome for the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• 1976 – Olympic Village (Montreal) opened.
• 1976 – Centre Eaton officially opened.
• 1976 – Olympic Stadium (Montreal) opened on July 17.
• 1976 – Summer Olympics.
• 1976 – Complexe Desjardins constructed.
• 1976 – Château Dufresne declared a historic monument.
• 1976 – Gay Line founded.
• 1976 – CKOI-FM first airs.
• 1976 – Montréal is surpassed in population by Toronto.^[22] (See Toronto-Montreal rivalry).
• 1976 – CGI Group founded.
• 1976 – Matrox founded.
• 1976 – Transcontinental (publisher) founded.
• 1976 – Norman Bethune Square and Norman Bethune Memorial opened on March 23.
• 1977 – Montreal World Film Festival founded.
• 1977 – Le Délit français founded.
• 1977 – Uniprix founded.
• 1978 – The city hosts the world junior hockey championship final on January 3.
• 1978 – The Canadian Grand Prix moves to its current home on Île Notre-Dame in Montreal.
• 1978 – Reelection of Jean Drapeau as mayor of Montreal on November 12.
• 1979 – Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre established.
• 1979 – Canadian Centre for Architecture founded.
• 1979 – Valentine (restaurant) opened.
• 1979 – First Montreal International Marathon on August 25.

1980s

• 1980 – Opéra de Montréal founded.
• 1980 – Montreal International Jazz Festival founded.
• 1980 – The Link (newspaper) founded.
• 1980 – CIBL-FM first airs.
• 1980 – On June 23, Terry Fox arrives in Montreal (with the Marathon of Hope) with Montreal Alouettes kicker Don Sweet and four wheelchair athletes.
• 1980 – Écomusée du fier monde opens.
• 1980 – Floralies, a major plant and flower show, held on Île Notre-Dame and a Wallace fountain is presented by the city of Paris.
• 1981 – Les Presses Chinoises launched.
• 1981 – McGill Tribune founded.
• 1981-83 – Montreal Manic operated.
• 1982 – Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir founded.
• 1982 – Centre Sheraton completed.
• 1982 – Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui launched.
• 1982 – Gray Line Montreal founded.
• 1983 – Palais des congrès de Montréal inaugurated in May.
• 1983 – Centre d'histoire de Montréal opened.
• 1983 – Just for Laughs founded.
• 1983 – Groupaction incorporated.
• 1983 – Pharmascience founded.
• 1983 – I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra founded.
• 1984 – Aeroplan created in July.
• 1984 – A bomb planted by Thomas Bernard Brigham in Central Station kills three French tourists and injures several dozen others on September 3. Brigham is believed to have been protesting Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada later that week.
• 1984 – On September 11, Pope John Paul II participates in a youth rally with about 55,000 people in attendance at the Olympic Stadium.
• 1984 – Frank "Dunie" Ryan, leader of the West End Gang, assassinated on November 13.
• 1984 – Cirque du Soleil founded.
• 1984 – Île de la Visitation opens as a park and historic site.
• 1984 – L'aut'journal founded.
• 1984 – Maxi (Canadian supermarket) founded.
• 1985 – L'International des Feux Loto-Québec first held at La Ronde.
• 1985 – Sunday Express closes.
• 1985 – Montreal Mirror founded.
• 1986 – Carrefour Angrignon built.
• 1986 – Inauguration of the first segment of the metro's Blue Line on June 16, running from de Castelnau to Saint-Michel.
• 1986 – CFTU-TV first airs on August 20.
• 1986 – CFJP-TV first airs on September 7.
• 1986 – Léger Marketing founded.
• 1986 – Jean Doré elected as mayor.
• 1986 – Air Transat founded.
• 1986 – Avenue Video established.
• 1986 – Le Cheval Blanc becomes the first licenced brewpub in modern times.
• 1986 – Softimage founded.
• 1987 – Montreal Protocol opened for signature.
• 1987 – The first Montreal Museums Day.
• 1987 – Montreal deluge: more than 100 mm of rain in 2 hours transforms the sunken Decarie autoroute expressway into a river.
• 1987 – Promenades Cathédrale constructed.
• 1987 – Tour KPMG constructed.
• 1987 – The name of "Dorchester Boulevard" is changed to René Lévesque Boulevard.
• 1988 – Montreal Daily News founded.
• 1987 – Montreal Protocol enters into force.
• 1989 – École Polytechnique massacre occurs on December 6. Marc Lépine murders fourteen women and wounds ten other women and four men.
• 1989 – Les FrancoFolies de Montréal founded.
• 1989 – CKUT-FM first airs.
• 1989 – Canadian Space Agency formed on December 14.
• 1989 – McAuslan Brewing opens.
• 1989 – Le SuperClub Vidéotron founded.

1990s

• 1990 – Montreal Insectarium opens on February 7.
• 1990 – Ferme Angrignon established; it is allowed to fold quietly in 2011.
• 1990 – Oka Crisis.
• 1992 – Montreal Impact founded.
• 1992 – 1000 de La Gauchetière built; it is Montreal's highest skyscraper.
• 1992 – Pointe-à-Callière Museum founded.
• 1992 – Concordia University massacre on August 24. Valery Fabrikant kills four people.
• 1992 – 1250 René-Lévesque completed.
• 1992 – 1501 McGill College completed.
• 1992 – World Trade Centre Montreal completed.
• 1992 – Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT) opens.
• 1992 – Aéroports de Montréal founded.
• 1992 – Lion de la Feuillée was donated by the city of Lyon on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Montreal.
• 1993 – Just for Laughs Museum established. It will close in 2010.
• 1993 – Divers/Cité founded.
• 1993 – Uniprix Stadium built.
• 1993 – Montreal Canadiens, NHL's most successful team, win their 24th Stanley Cup.
• 1993 – Mondial de la Bière founded.
• 1993 – Casino de Montréal opened.
• 1994 – Alternatives founded.
• 1994 – Pierre Bourque founds Vision Montreal and is elected mayor.
• 1996 – Bell Centre opened on March 16.
• 1996 – Agence métropolitaine de transport created.
• 1996 – Fantasia Festival founded.
• 1996 – Establishment of CRE-Montreal, an environmental council.
• 1997 – McGill University Health Centre founded.
• 1998 – Record-setting North American ice storm of 1998 afflicts Montreal and other parts of Quebec.
• 1998 – End of confessional school boards as language rather than religion becomes paramount. The Montreal Catholic School Commission becomes the CSDM and the PSBGM becomes the EMSB, more or less.
• 1998 – Area code 450 introduced.
• 1999 – Montreal Convention is adopted by the ICAO.
• 1999 – Montreal Economic Institute established.
• 1999 – World Anti-Doping Agency set up on November 10.

21st century

2000s

• 2001 – Reorganization of Montreal.
• 2001 – According to Statistics Canada, in 2001,^[23] the city of Montréal has 1,583,590 inhabitants.
• 2001 – Gérald Tremblay becomes mayor of Montreal, defeating Pierre Bourque.
• 2001 – Union Montreal founded.
• 2002 – Montreal is merged with the 27 surrounding municipalities on the Île de Montréal on January 1. The merger creates a unified city covering the entire Île de Montréal. Soon, this move proves unpopular.
• 2002 – Official reopening of the Lachine Canal exclusively for pleasure boating, May 17.
• 2002 – Société de transport de Montréal comes into being, a renaming of the existing Société de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal.
• 2002 – Gangster Maurice Boucher is convicted (on the second attempt) with the help of a police informer in May.
• 2002 – The Quartier des Spectacles project is first proposed.
• 2004 – Cité du commerce électronique completed.
• 2004 – Projet Montréal is founded.
• 2004 – Final game of the Montreal Expos.
• 2004 – Several former municipalities, totalling 13% of the population of Île de Montréal, vote to leave the newly unified city in separate referendums in June.
• 2004 – Passenger operations through Montréal-Mirabel International Airport cease on October 31.
• 2005 – 3,635,700 people live in the metropolitan area, up from 3,426,350 in 2001, reflecting an annual growth of 1.1 percent.
• 2005 – Grande Bibliothèque opens.
• 2005 – Montreal Action Plan.
• 2005 – Gérald Tremblay elected for second term as mayor, defeating Pierre Bourque a second time. Bourque retires from politics.
• 2005 – Montréal hosts the FINA World Aquatic Championships
• 2006 – The demerger becomes effective January 1. Fifteen municipalities remain on the island.
• 2006 – 2006 World Outgames take place from July 26 to August 5.
• 2006 – Declaration of Montreal on July 29.
• 2006 – Dawson College shooting on September 13. Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds nineteen others before being winged by a police sniper and committing suicide.
• 2006 – De la Concorde overpass collapse on September 30.
• 2007 – Cartier, De La Concorde, and Montmorency subway stations open in Laval on April 26.
• 2007 – Montréal is host to a series of preliminary games of the FIFA U-20 World Cup
• 2007 – In June, the Quebec government announces the demolition and reconstruction of Turcot Interchange, projected to be complete in 2016.
• 2007 – Montreal Archipelago Ecological Park announced.
• 2009 – BIXI launched in May.
• 2009 - Gérald Tremblay voted in for third term as mayor, defeating Vision Montreal's Louise Harel and Projet Montréal's Richard Bergeron.

2010s

• 2012 - Charbonneau Commission begins examining corruption in Montreal civic governance and collusion among major engineering and construction firms bidding for municipal contracts.
• 2012 - Gérald Tremblay steps down as mayor in November after allegations of serious irregularities in party financing. Michael Applebaum becomes interim mayor until municipal elections in November 2013
• 2013 - Michael Applebaum is arrested and indicted with 14 charges including fraud and corruption. He steps down. City councillors elect Laurent Blanchard to serve as mayor for the four months remaining before the municipal elections.

• 2013 - Denis Coderre elected mayor of Montreal

See also

References

External links

• Historic FAQ - Centre d'Histoire de Montréal.
• Web sites on the History of Montreal

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