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Show Cosmopolitan Montreal, City of Ma.ny Attractions, Now the Fifth Largest Metropolis in North America ft-. M. 4 i f T Mil v f v-J ceeur slide: -" XM W Oocece Montreal. Canada's greatest city, now ranks as the fifth city In point of population in North America, being exceeded only by New York; Chicago Philadelphia and Detroit. "G'-?pter Montreal." Including the envii jr.s oi Montreal, has 1.256.459 populai.in It Is the greatest gram port In the world and the headquarters of the Canadian Pacific. It Is a bi-llngual city, French and English. It Is a clean and teau-tiful teau-tiful city, dominated by towering Mount Royal, topped by a wonderful park from which the visitor may see the whole city and the vast panorama ol the St. Lawrence up which, in bout 1533. Jacques Cartler sailed to Hochelaga, then an Indian village and now the great city of Montreal. It Is a city so different from the big cities of the United States that hundreds of thousands of visitors from New York end vicinity and from Chicago and farther west, Journey to It summer and winter for its various attractions, and then on to Quebec and the Chateau Cha-teau Frontcnac. which, wonderful as It is. Is to have a $1,000,000 addition. But to return to Montreal. In visit-ins visit-ins Montreal be sure to see the Chateau Cha-teau de Ramezay and the Bonsecours Market hard by the Place Viger Hotel m the oid French section. The Chateau Cha-teau de Rnmcray, once headquarters of the French and British colonial governors and for a short time headquarters head-quarters of Benjamin Franklin, is now a most Interesting museum, tnen there is Lachlne Rapids, which onf can shoot to Montreal from the west Montreal has so many attractions thai it is Impossible to name them nere After one has seer. them, the next oesi bet is Quebec, the only walled city in North America, and the most picturesque pictur-esque spot in the New World Quebec, the "Ancient Capital." Is so original and distinctive that no place in the New World Is like It. Montreal and Quebec are both famous fa-mous for their winter sports. The six track slide in Montreal Is one oi the finest in Canada, and the triple-track slide :n Quebec is f:.ino.is the worm over for speed and fot spectacu..ii thrills. |