Montreal; the Canadian metropolis and its picturesque environments.

AMONGST all the cities on the North American Continent there are few fairer or more attractive to the tourist than Montreal, the great Canadian metropolis.The city is delightfully located on an island in the St. Lawrence River, just below its confluence with the Ottawa, and stretches along the bank of that magnificent waterway for five miles and backwards for more than half that distance, being built on a series of terraces, the former levels of the river or of an ancient lake, which terminate in Mount Royal, whose summit and wooded slopes form one of the grandest public pleasure grounds on the continent.All the attractions of a summer resort lie in and about Montreal.It is a city of trees and parks and pleasant drives, in a land of orchards and gardens, with a great river sweeping along its front.It is a city of marked contrasts, where the picturesque quaintness of a vanished age is mingled with the luxury and culture and enterprise of modern times ; where the customs and usages of Old France and Young Canaida, characteristic of the old and new eras of civilization, harmoniously co-exist, and where massive business blocks and costly public buildings and private residences rise side by side with grey old churches, sombre convents and nunneries and grand cathedrals whose magnificence and splendor rival those of the old world.It is a modern, metropolitan city-an important seaport, although 600 miles from the Atlantic by the St. Lawrence, with huge ocean greyhounds at its busy docksa bustling, thriving commercial and industrial centre, where converge the principal railways of Canada, chief of which is the Canadian Pacific, which, stretching across the Continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is the longest continuous line in the world.Montreal's summer temperature makes it one of the few cities of the larger size in which people may live with comfort during the warmer months, and the heat is not enervating as in more southern latitudes.MONTREAL AN HISTORIC SPOT MONTREAL is among the half-dozen historic cities of North America where lingers that subtle charm which only the glamour of an eventful past can bestow.When Jacques Cartier first visited the island in 1535 he found the palisaded Indian village of Hochelaga, whose very existence disappeared from all record, and whose site was utterly unknown until a few years ago, when it was accidentally re-dis- covered in the heart of the upper part of the city.The illustrious Champ] ain, the Montreal from Mount Royal first Governor of Canada, came in 161 1, and established a trading post, which he named Place Royale, on the site of the present Custom House ; but it was not until May 1 8th, 1642, that the city was founded by a band of religious enthusiasts who planned a town to be known as Ville Marie de Montreal.The leader of the expedition and the Governor of the colony was the soldier Maisonneuve whose memory is perpetuated in bronze in one of the historic spots of the city, where he MONTREAL gallantly met and vanquished his Indian foe.The old streets of Montreal are redolent with legends of a turbulent past -of wars with the fierce and wily aborigine, of French adventure and enterprise -for here dwelt the intrepid La Salle, the Mis- sissippi explorer, Du L'Hut, the founder of Duluth, Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, and Bienville, the founder of New Orleans, and other heroes whose names are still revered by posterity.Ville Marie was, too, the headquarters of the great French fur-trading and exploring companies, whose operations throughout the great From the Towers of Notre-Dame M.-V" 1 ' west extended to the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains and the far off shores of Hudson Bay.It remained under the rule of France until 1760, when Vaudreuil capitulated to General Amherst, and the ancient regime came to an end.Three years later, by the treaty of Paris, France ceded Canada to Great Britain, and the French Canadians became British subjects.The town was occupied for a time, in 1775, by the Americans, under General Montgomery, who afterwards was slain in a gallant but unsuccessful assault upon Quebec, and here in the old Chateau de MONTREAL Ramezay, the home of the old Governors, lived Benjamin Franklin and Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the American commissioners who came to negotiate the cession of the country to the United States.During the war of 18 12-15, Montreal was thrice threatened by invading United States forces, but fortunately the walls were not entered by the enemy Dominion Square, Montreal, from Canadian Pacific Ry. Station Since that time the development and progress of the city have been continuousand rapid, until it now possesses, with its suburbs, a steadily increasing population of about 350,000, the majority of whom are French Canadians, and boasts of a wealth equalled by no other city of its size in the world. MONTREAL'S PARKS AND SQUARES.THE CITY is adorned by numerous beautiful parks and squares, among them two that are most picturesque -the Mount Royal Park and St. Helen's Island.Pleasant drives wind around the mountain, from which the city derives its name,

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