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For these, Montreal is best known
The city of Montreal is served by two nation-
wide railways, and is the point of junction of
the St. Lawrence waterway and deep water
navigation.
Deux réseaux ferroviaires transcontinentaux
desservent la ville de Montréal; son port est le
point d’aboutissement de la navigation en eau
profonde du Saint-Laurent.
The nights are cool, though the days
are sunny, and the pity is that so
many of the tourists have gone away.
in her summer dress, very green and
lovely, with shady trees that are often more than welcome in a heat that is
humid from the broad St. Lawrence.
Summer has followed on a Spring that is all too brief, for never was city
so beautiful as Montreal in lilac time, when the birds have come up from the
South to sing as they make their nests.
But for the Montrealer, winter is the gayest season of all, with snow as an
excuse for furs—mink, and ermine and silver fox, not to mention the commoner
varieties that are always so attractive, and above all so warm.
Excerpts from Chapter I of John Murray Gibbon’s “Our Old Montreal”
published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
John Murray Gibbon was born in 1875 at
Udewelle, Ceylon, of Scottish parents. He was
educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Gottingen.
In Canada Mr. Gibbon was appointed general
publicity agent for the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way and achieved public recognition for his
novels, books on Canadian music, and Canadian
histories.
“Canadian Mosaic’ published in 1938 won for
him the Governor-General’s Award.
Program Notes
There are two daily transmissions
directed to the United Kingdom and
Europe. Times and frequencies for all
programs in these transmissions are
outlined on the chart contained in
this booklet.
News. Canadian and international
news bulletins are scheduled three
times daily.
Speaker. A five-minute commentary
covering background information on
events contained in the day’s news
follows each bulletin. The commen-
tator for the week of September 12 is
Burton Keirstead, professor of polit-
ical science at McGill University.
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