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Windsor Station
Many-Sided — Magnetic — Mature
The age of cities is a relative figure, and there are some who would hesitate
to use the word “old” in connection with Montreal, seeing that her Tercente-
nary was celebrated only in 1942. Three hundred years is but a mushroom
growth in comparison with some of the cities of Europe. But... we should
not forget that the Iroquois Indians whom Jacques Cartier found on the site
of the future Montreal in 1535, considered their Hochelaga of fifty longhouses
an established capital of their tribe, and that the French settlers who came
to establish their missionary outpost of Ville Marie about a hundred years
later brought with them old traditions, for instance the tradition of a religious
nursing sisterhood with rules going back to the Middle Ages...
It is because Montreal has such charm and has won so much affection
from most of those who have lived there that they think of her as "Our Old
Montreal”, not because she was founded over three hundred years ago. And
yet she is old enough to have become cosmopolitan, no doubt the most cosmo-
politan city in Canada...
Appearances help to create affection in this very human world, and the
appearance of Montreal as known to those who have lived there helps to make
them think of her as an old friend. Nothing could be more lovely than the dark
blue velvet carpet of the city spread out before those who gaze upon it from the
Outlook on the Mountain as dusk begins to fall, and the lights are like glow-
worms. The green-forested slopes and the summit of her park of Mount
Royal give Montreal a serenity to be matched in no other Canadian, or indeed
North American, city. There may be a swirl of busy traffic on the streets, but
in a few minutes one can step up a leafy trail away from the swift procession
of automobiles on Pine Avenue into a world of remote tranquillity.
For each of the four seasons Montreal has a different dress. Fallis perhaps
the most colourful, with an almost unbelievable blaze of vermillon and of gold
at the turning of the leaves in the late September on wooded mountain-side.
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