MERCHANTS--NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS ORIGINS--UP COUNTRY TRADE--EARLY COMPANIES--NORTH WEST COMPANY--CHARLES GRANT’S REPORT--PASSES--MEMORIALS--GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES--RIVAL COMPANIES--THE X.Y. COMPANY--JOHN JACOB ASTOR’S COMPANIES--- ASTORIA TO BE FOUNDED--THE JOURNEY OF THE MONTREAL CONTINGENT--ASTORIA A FAILURE--THE GREAT RIVAL--THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY--SIR ALEXANDER SELKIRK--THE AMALGAMATION OF THE NORTH WEST AND HUDSON’S BAY COMPANIES IN 1821--THE BEAVER CLUB 97
THE ASSEMBLY AT LAST--MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVES--FRENCH AND ENGLISH USED--THE FRENCH REVOLUTION--MUTINY AT QUEBEC--THE DUKE OF KENT--INVASION FEARED FROM FRANCE--MONTREAL DISAFFECTED--ATTORNEY GENERAL MONK’S REPORT--THE FRENCH SEDITIONARY PAMPHLETS--PANEGYRIC ON BISHOP BRIAND--MONTREAL ARRESTS--ATTORNEY GENERAL SEWELL’S REPORT--M’LEAN--ROGER’S SOCIETY--JEROME BONAPARTE EXPECTED 105
THE CAUSES OF THE WAR OF 1812--THE CHESAPEAKE--JOHN HENRY--HOW THE NEWS OF INVASION WAS RECEIVED IN MONTREAL--THE MOBILIZATION--GENERAL HULL--THE MONTREAL MILITIA--FRENCH AND ENGLISH ENLIST--MONTREAL THE OBJECTIVE--OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF CHATEAUGUAY--COLONEL DE SALABERRY--RETURN OF WOUNDED--THE EXPLANATION OF THE FEW BRITISH KILLED 115
THE “GAZETTE DU COMMERCE ET LITTERAIRE”--A RUNAWAY SLAVE--GUY CARLETON’S DEPARTURE--GENERAL HALDIMAND IN MONTREAL--MESPLET’S PAPER SUSPENDED--POET’S CORNER--THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY DISCUSSED--FIRST THEATRICAL COMPANY: THE “BUSY BODY”--LORD NELSON’S MONUMENT--A RUNAWAY RED CURLY HAIRED AND BANDY LEGGED APPRENTICE--LAMBERT’S PICTURE OF THE PERIOD--MINE HOST OF THE “MONTREAL HOTEL”--THE “CANADIAN COURANT”--AMERICAN INFLUENCE--THE “HERALD”--WILLIAM GRAY AND ALEXANDER SKAKEL--BEGINNINGS OF COMMERCIAL LIFE--DOIGE’S DIRECTORY--MUNGO KAY--LITERARY CELEBRITIES--HERALD “EXTRAS”--WATERLOO--POLITICAL PSEUDONYMS--NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION--THE ABORTIVE “SUN”--A PICTURE OF THE CITY IN 1818--THE BLACK RAIN OF 1819--OFFICIAL, MILITARY AND ECCLESIASTICAL LIFE--ORIGIN OF ART, MUSIC, ETC. 123
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT--MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS--FRENCH-CANADIANS AIM TO STRENGTHEN THEIR POLITICAL POWER--THE “COLONIAL” OFFICE AND THE BUREAUCRATIC CLASS VERSUS THE DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY--L. J. PAPINEAU AND JOHN RICHARDSON--PETITIONS FOR AND AGAINST UNION--THE MONTREAL BRITISH PETITION OF 1822--THE ANSWER OF L.J. PAPINEAU--THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL--THE BILL FOR UNION WITHDRAWN. NOTES: NAMES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FROM 1796 TO 1833--MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR MONTREAL DISTRICT, 1791-1829--PETITION OF MONTREAL BRITISH--1822 133