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MAGUIRE Street (March 26, 1876)
HDMaguire, physician, son of Charles B. Maguire and Mary-Justine Casgrain, second wife of Dr. Pierre Beaubien who baptized this way the name Maguire.
MAISONNEUVE, street (April 7, 1879)
Old names: Rue Saint-Ignace and Sydenham.
Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (1612-1676), army officer, founder of Ville-Marie, the first governor of the island of Montreal.
MARKET-Bonsecours Street (May 3, 1940)
Lane along the west coast of the old Bonsecours Market Street between St. Paul and Commissioners.
Old Name: Rue du Marche.
MASSON Street (May 22, 1903)
The Honorable Joseph Masson (1791-1847), merchant, seigneur de Terrebonne and legislative counsel. He was the richest French-speaking Canadian of the first half of the nineteenth century.
McGILL Street
Lane opened on the site created by the demolition of the walls of fortifications of Montreal.
McGill Street reminds one of the members appointed, about 1802, to demolish the fortifications, or the Honourable James McGill (1744-1813), member of the legislature and founder of McGill University.
This path has already brought names: Augustine, St. Augustine and Market Street to Hay.
McGill College Avenue
Transferred to the City of Montreal February 16, 1856.
Way that leads to McGill University. Name given by the Royal Institute for the Advences of Learning.
Part of this route has already called rue Sainte-Monique.
McGREGOR Ave
Subdivision Plan drawn by surveyor Joseph Riel, May 6, 1867, at the request of John Auld, son of John McGregor, whose family had owned the site.
Part of this route that extends from the McTavish Street to Avenue of Pines Road Carleton called before December 6, 1956.
Metcalfe Street
Lord Charles Theophilus Metcalfe (1785-1846), sixteenth Governor General of Canada (1843-1845). It violated the principles of constitutional government established in 1841, and left the country prey to political divisions.
MERCY Avenue of the (June 21, 1955)
Originally called the Rue Goyer, this route was called the Holy Cross May 23, 1922.
The name of Sainte-Croix was changed to the Avenue of Mercy June 21, 1955, in honor of the Sisters of Mercy whose parent company is established along this route since November 1930.
MONK Boulevard (May 29, 1911)
Family Monk some of whose members were judges or statesmen, among whom Sir James Monk (1745-1826), Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Montreal from 1794 to 1824 and administrator of Lower Canada in 1819.
MOUNTAIN, rue (before 1761)
(Note: since September 29, 1961, it is officially permitted to translate the name "Mountain").
Former Indian path leading to the mountain.
A plan prepared in 1776 by surveyor John Peladeau proves that the Rue de la Montagne existed before the arrival in Quebec of the first Anglican Bishop Jacob Mountain in 1793. The name of the Rue de la Montagne (Or "Mountain") was therefore not given, as is still sometimes claimed, in memory of the prelate who deserves to be honored though.
Portions of this pathway have already called Redpath Avenue and McCord Street.
MONTCALM, street
Opened in 1801.
Louis-Joseph de Saint-Veran, Marquis de Montcalm (1712-1759) French general, born in Candiac. He defended Quebec against the General Wolfe he drove to the Montmorency River in July 1759, but lost the battle of the Plains of Abraham September 17, 1759, and as his conqueror, he died there. 208 soldiers French and English were killed in that battle.
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OUR LADY Street (March 12, 1672)
It Dollier Casson, superior of the Séminaire Saint-Sulpice, which fixed the term of the first streets and gave them names that have been preserved until now.
Dollier Casson drew a main street running through the city and had to be the main one. He gave the name of Notre Dame in honor of the Blessed Virgin who had been chosen as the patron saint of the city.
Before 1880, part of the current Notre Dame the east of Berri called Sainte-Marie, and the game west of McGill Street called St. Joseph.
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ONTARIO Street (1842), place (28 January 1952), Lane (December 1, 1960)
When John S. Cartwright, a banker in Kingston, and JB Forsyth, a Montreal merchant, bought and subdivided the farm of Sir John Johnson, they gave three new tracks the names of three large Canadian lakes, or lakes Erie, Huron and Ontario.
Some sections of the Ontario Street already carries the names of Napoleon Arthur Buies and Berthelet.
OUTREMONT Avenue of
So called January 17, 1927 for the portion of the track located in the city of Montreal. This way
was born on an unknown date in Outremont she took the name. It was Louis Beaubien in 1875, when he was MP for Hochelaga, presented a bill for the erection of the municipality of Cote-Sainte-Catherine, village, who took the name of Outremont (besides Mount).
Old names in the Montreal area: Roche and O'Shaugnhnessy.
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PAPINEAU Avenue and Terrace
Papineau Avenue was opened in 1810. Joseph Papineau (1752-1841), lawyer and politician, born in Montreal. There was a vigorous defender of popular liberties under the administration Craig. He was the father of Louis-Joseph Papineau Tribune, one of the architects of the armed uprising of 1837.
Portions of this has already brought names: path and square Papineau, Victoria Road, Queen Square, Monarch Street, Bromby, Lamarche, Berthelet, Charles Beaubien.
PARK MARGARET BOURGEOYS Street (December 18, 1922)
along Park Lane Margaret Bourgeoys.
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), and religious teacher. She founded in Montreal in 1659, the Congregation of Notre Dame. Beatified in 1950.
PARK Avenue (January 15, 1883)
This route runs along part of the Mount Royal Park, between Pine Avenue and Avenue Mont-Royal.
Since September 29, 1961, it is officially permitted to translate the name into Park Avenue.
PEEL Street (August 23, 1845)
Robert Peel (1788-1850), several times prime minister of England, was voted the Catholic Emancipation (1829), and recall the duties on cereals measures which had great economic impact in Canada.
PIE IX Boulevard
Pius IX (Mastai Ferretti), pope from 1846 to 1878.
Street Called Pius IX was originally, this route was called the Pie IX May 18, 1912.
PINE Avenue (June 30, 1876)
Name Tree (Pine)
City Council then gave Montreal three names of trees on three new routes, or Pine, Cedar and Elm .
The following year, rue de l'Hotel-Dieu, forming an extension of Pine Avenue to the east, and had been assigned to City by the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, was called 'Pine Avenue "by the Montreal City Council.
Some have argued that this name was given in honor of a sister Despins community of Sisters of St. Joseph Hospital. The upper (1942) of the Hotel-Dieu said that no religious name Despins was part of this community.
Since September 29, 1961, it is officially permitted to translate the name into Pine Avenue.
PLACE OF ARMS
Part of the Place d'Armes was the site of the First Parish Church Notre Dame, before 1829. In the southwestern corner of the square, there was the first public well in Montreal (50 feet deep).
The city of Montreal has acquired the current Place d'Armes of the Seminary of Montreal in 1836.
This name was given between 1723 and 1729. This Place is the second in Montreal to carry this designation. This name was applied originally to the location known today under the name of Place Royale.
The "Place d'Armes", or battle took place on March 30, 1644 between de Maisonneuve and his men against the Iroquois, is probably not the place we call today as well as it should be little away from the fort that was then the tip to Callières.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY Avenue (January 9, 1964)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), President of the United States from 1960 to 22 November 1963 when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
PRINCE ARTHUR Street (September 8, 1890)
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), third son of Queen Victoria, ninth Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.
He rejoined the First Battalion of the Fusiliers in Montreal in August 1869.
Old names: Bagg and Courville.
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