Montreal 1896-1914: The Canadian Metropolis 

Hou la la! Les femmes habillées si modestement.

Montreal, the Canadian Metropolis, just like New York City was the American Metropolis. And just like New York City, Montreal was the Canadian Big Apple, but only until the 1970s, when Toronto's population grew above Montreal's population and the French language laws of 1974 and 1977, began the 2 decade long exodus of English speaking citizens and not just people with English as their mother tongue, who made up 25.6% of the population of Montreal Island, but also some immigrants (about 15% of Montreal Island), who had assimilated into the English speaking community. The population who spoke French as their mother tongue on Montreal was 59.4% and thus, only a slight majority. I think in the city of Montreal itself however, French speakers made up a bigger percentage of the population and English speakers a slightly smaller percentage of the population, but I might be wrong. Although I am aware that the last English speaking mayor of Montreal, James John Edmund Guerin, who born and died in Montreal in 1932, served from 1910 to 1912, when the city of Montreal proper, still had a tradition of switching between an English speaking and French speaking Mayor every 2 or 4 years.

All this as long you not french lol

It is not St James street, it is St-Jacques street. Merci!

My dad parents came to Montréal from Lithuanian in 1905

from school

Les maudit anglais régnait sur Montréal dans ce temps

Funny how as soon as you let the city go full French, it plummets.