SUBURBAN GROWTH--THE EARLIEST OUTLYING FIEFS--PRAEDIA MILITARIA--MILITARY SEIGNEURIES OF THE MONTREAL DISTRICT--THE FEUDAL SYSTEM--THE "NOBLESSE"--THE "PARISHES"--"CENS ET RENTES"--"LODS ET VENTES"--TRIBUTE TO THE FEUDALISM OF THE CLERICAL "SEIGNEURS OF MONTREAL"--MUNICIPAL OFFICERS--ORDER IN PROCESSIONS--THE CHURCH WARDENS--THE SOLDIER COLONISTS--CATTLE BREEDING, HORSES, ASSES--AGRICULTURE--NEW CONCESSIONS--LAWS REGULATING OPENING UP THE LAND--FIRST PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES AT MONTREAL--NOTE: FORTS AND REDOUBTS 203
COMMERCE--MINING--SHIP BUILDING--INDUSTRIES--A "MUNICIPAL" BREWERY--THE FIRST MARKET--PRICES--LABOUR--MEDICAL MEN 213
ENCOURAGEMENT OF MARRIAGE--BACHELORS TAXED--"FILLES DU ROI"--DOWRIES--PENSIONS FOR LARGE FAMILIES--MONTREAL HEALTHY FOR WOMEN--NOTE ON IMMIGRATION 215
LA SALLE--DOLLIER DE CASSON--DE COURCELLES
A FEUDAL VILLAGE AND ITS YOUNG SEIGNEUR--LA SALLE'S JESUIT TRAINING--AN EX-JESUIT--THE SEIGNEURY OF ST. SULPICE--SOLD--THE FEVER FOR EXPLORATION--LA SALLE, DOLLIER DE CASSON AND GALINEE--SOLDIER OUTRAGES ON INDIANS--THE EXPEDITION TO LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO--LA SALLE RETURNS--HIS SEIGNEURY NICKNAMED "LA CHINE"--THE SULPICIANS TAKE POSSESSION OF LAKE ERIE FOR LOUIS XIV--RETURN TO MONTREAL--DE GALINEE'S MAP--THE SUBSEQUENT EXPEDITION OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, DE COURCELLES 221
AT QUEBEC: JACQUES LEBER, JEANNE LEBER, CHARLES LE MOYNE (OF LONGUEUIL), LOUIS PRUDHOMME--MARGUERITE BOURGEOYS' SCHOOL AT MONTREAL--"GALLICIZING" INDIAN CHILDREN--GANNENSAGONAS--THE SULPICIANS AT GENTILLY--THE JESUITS AT MADELEINE LA PRAIRIE 229
SIEUR DE LA FREDIERE--LIQUOR TRAFFIC WITH THE INDIANS--SOLDIERS MURDER INDIANS--THE CARION-DE LORMEAU DUEL--THE FIRST BALL IN CANADA--LARCENIES, ETC.--A CORNER IN WHEAT--THE "VOLUNTAIRES," OR DAY LABOURERS--THE TAVERNS--A POLICE RAID--"HOTEL" LIFE--BLASPHEMY PUNISHED--THE LORDS' VINEYARDS RUINED 233
DE QUEYLUS FINALLY LEAVES VILLE MARIE--DE COURCELLES AND TALON RECALLED--TRIBUTE TO THEIR ADMINISTRATION--MGR. DE LAVAL ABSENT FOR THREE YEARS--THREE DEATHS--MADAME DE PELTRIE--MARIE L'INCARNATION--JEANNE MANGE--HER LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT 239
THE FOUNDATION OF THE PARISH CHURCH AND BON SECOURS CHAPEL
THE FIRST STREET SURVEY--"LOW" TOWN AND "UPPER" TOWN--THE ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OF THE STREETS--COMPLAINTS AGAINST CITIZENS STILL CULTIVATING THE STREETS--ORDERS TO BEGIN BUILDING--THE NEW PARISH CHURCH--THE FOUNDATION STONES AND PLAQUES--THE DEMOLITION OF THE FORT FORBIDDEN--THE CHURCH OF BON SECOURS--THE POWDER MAGAZINE IN ITS GARRET--A PICTURE OF MONTREAL 241