Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ictoria Skating Rink, the largest in the world, isthe most noted amusement structure. The city isnoted for athletic sports, and toboggan slides abound,some of enormous length, down the mountain slopes.The Montreal Bonsecours Market is famed every-where, and presents an imposing Doric front nearlyfive hundred feet long upon the river bank, sur-mounted by a domed tower. Here gather in force theFrench Canadian peasantry, known as the hahltans,to sell their produce and wares, and it gives a quaintexhibition of old-time French customs. The ancientChurch of Notre Dame de Bonsecours is alongside,originally founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys in 1673for the reception of a miraculous statue of the Virgin,entrusted to her by one of the associates of the So-ciety founding Montreal, Baron de Faucamp. Thechurch was burnt and then rebuilt in 1771, and is aquaint structure of a style rarely seen outside ofNormandy, having shops built up against it after thefashion common in old European towns. Thus does
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T¥E NEW YORK ASTOP *ND MONTKEAL SUREOUNDINGS. 441 this famous city combine the methods and styles ofthe Middle Ages with the manners and enterprisesof to-day. It is an impressive fact that notwith-standing the prodigious religious development, all thedenominations get on without friction. There is anunderlying spirit of toleration, and it is recorded thatafter the British conquest of Canada the Protestantswho came into Montreal occupied one of the Catho-lic churches for worship, assembling after the Catho-lic morning mass; and that for twenty years after1766 the Church of England people occupied theCatholic church of the Recollets every Sunday after-noon. The Presbyterians are said to have also usedthe same church prior to 1792, and then having re-moved into a church of their own, they presentedthe priests of the Recollet church a gift of candlesfor the high altar and of wine for the mass as a tokenof good will and their thanks for the gratuitous useof the church. Then the churches w

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