Trams From City Hall Tower| Montreal In The Time Of Tramways
Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (6/12)
Montreal tram and horse-drawn carriage
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Crystal Anifantis – a Delisle descendant – left this message in a comment box yesterday-
“I am trying to find information on my Great Grandparents. The were born 100% Mohawk Indian on the Kahnawake reservation in Canada in the early 1900, my Grandmother’s name was Cecila Deer (died in the 1930′s) and my grandfather’s name was Angus Delisle, they had 6 children together: Ralph (deceased), Irene (deceased), Ester, Betty, Josephine (my grandmother DOB: 4/18/1933) and Loyd (all their last names was Delisle). Any information on my grandparents sibling and grandparents’ parents would be a start or their dates of birth and date of death would help me.”
This was one of the toughest searches I’ve done in awhile! As always there is the challenge of the combined Native and European surnames – and the fact that with the Iroquois naming pattern names mutate through the generations. Added to this, the Ancestry.com records are frequently incomplete or mispelled. My breakthrough came with the birth certificate above, when I was able to find the marriage certificate of Mike Delisle and Mary Norton at the Centre Genealogique. From this I was able to extend this family tree by one more generation. Other information is being shared privately with C. Anifantis.
Information 1
FIRST GENERATION
Francois-Xavier Kaneraktatie Delisle (son of Michel Tehowenkarakwen) was born on 1 Jan 1867 in Caughnawaga. Francois-Xavier married Marie-Anne (aka Mary Anne) Kakwirahes Leborgne on 13 Feb 1893 in Kahnawake Laprairie Quebec. Marie Anne’s parents were Moise Tesokwen Leborgne (son of Louis Skanenrati Leborgne and Marie-Anne Kakwirahes Kelly) and Odile Rufiange Champagne (daughter of Olivier Rugiange Champagne and Sophie Laberge). Marie was born on 1 Nov 1876 in Caughnawaga and died after 1911.
Children from this marriage according to 1901/1911 census
+ 2 M i. Ignace/Angus Delisle was born on 2 Feb 1893 in Kahnawake (Laprairie, Quebec). 3 F ii. Anna Delisle was born on 1 Nov 1896 in Kahnawake. 4 F iii. Marie Delisle was born on 1 Nov 1897 in Kahnawake. 5 F iv. Josephine Delisle was born on 4 Jul 1900 in Kahnawake. 6 M v. Michel Delisle was born in Feb 1903 in Kahnawake. 7 M vi. Joseph Delisle was born in Nov 1908 in Kahnawake. Read more »
Montreal In The Time Of Tramways | Introduction
What can I say - I love trams!
My husband and I lived in Milano during the 1970s and that city is crisscrossed by a thick network of train, subway, bus and tram lines. Given the choice I would always jump on one of the trams. There were traditional streetcars but also newly introduced articulated streetcars that had a sleeker, modern look and could accommodate many more people. But either way, trams were always more comfortable than buses.
When I was a little girl growing up during the 1950s my hometown of Montreal still had streetcars, but as that decade closed so did the history of streetcars in Montreal.
Historic View of Trams in Piazza del Duomo (Milano, Italy)
Back to the future – plans for Montreal’s public transit system
There are plans afoot to return Windsor Station to its original use as a train station and have it serve as a nexus for Montreal’s existing bus and subway system. But what’s really exciting for streetcar fans, is that there is also an ambitious plan to bring back Montreal’s tramway system. Will this really happen?
No one seems to question that streetcars are a greener alternative than other modes of city transport but there are some arguments against trams. For instance, tramway systems are expensive to build and there’s bound to be extensive traffic problems during the building period! If you want to know more about this, I suggest you read Andy Riga’s Montreal Gazette feature the pros and cons of tramways and how they would fit into Montreal’s regional system.
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What other people are saying about Montreal trams
Jacob Larsen (Spacing Montreal) on the advisability of the new viaduct
Yonah Freeman (The Transport Politic) provides details & links to tramway project
James Lawlor (Transport in Montreal) discusses trolly buses vs. trams
J.D./Kristian (Coolopolis) suggest a different approach to Windsor project
Images of Montreal’s trams
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URBANPHOTO Some of the relatively modern (50s era) tramways
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Post Office & Bank of Montreal in 1907| Montreal In The Time Of Tramways
Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (5/12)
This is a vintage postcard of the Montreal Post Office and the Bank of Montreal in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was established in 1817 as Canada’s first bank and initially served the British territory of Upper and Lower Canada. At the time Toronto – which is now Canada’s financial capital – was called York, and Montreal was the most important city in Canada. One of the first things they did was to introduce a local currency. After Canadian confederation in 1867 and the gradual addition of new provinces, the Bank of Montreal grew to include branches cross-Canada.
Enlarged Detail of Tram and horse-drawn carriage.
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Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (4/12)
This is an early twentieth-century view of a tram and horse-drawn carriages in front of Montreal’s Place Viger Hotel and Canadian Pacific Railway Station. Canada has had its own flag since 1967, but this postcard predates as you can see the British Ensign in the top left-hand corner.
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Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (3/12)
This vintage postcard (1910-1920) features a tram between two Montreal theaters: the Orpheum and the Princess. Both were located on St-Catherine Street and neither exist today.
The Princess is the Montreal theatre where the incident occurred that led to the death of wold-famous magician. As the story goes, Houdini had invited a McGill University student to do his portrait after his show at the Princess. At a certain point – in a test of Houdini’s strength – the student punched him in the stomach. Houdini left soon after for his next show in Detroit, and died there a few days later. After the Princess was torn down, the site was used for Wesley Congregational Church.
The Orpheum was originally called Bennett’s Theatre. this helped me date the card since the change took place in 1910.
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Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (2/12)
This is another vintage postcard from my Ste-Catherine St. collection. It shows Montreal’s core shopping district (with trams, of course) at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (1/12)
This is an early 1920s view of a tram on St. Catherine St. near the La Presse Building in Montreal’s east end. Check out the signs and you’ll see the La Presse slogan – “L’Organe des Canadiens-Francais” – and their circulation at the time – 100,000 readers.
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