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lin was one of the number, and he brought the 

 first printing outfit to the city. With this a 

 newspaper was established which later became 

 the Montreal Gazette and has had a continu- 

 ous existence to the present day. In 1775-1776 

 the city was occupied by Continental troops, 

 but the Canadians refused to side with the 

 colonies and the troops withdrew. 



From the close of the Revolutionary War to 

 the middle of the nineteenth century the city 

 grew slowly but steadily. Then the turning 

 point in its commercial history came, with 

 the advent of the Grand Trunk Railway and 

 the establishing of the Allan Line of Steamers, 

 the first transatlantic line to enter its port. A 

 ship canal around the rapids was completed in 

 1849, and in 1860 the completion of the Vic- 

 toria Bridge gave the Grand Trunk entrance 

 into the city. From that time to the present 

 the city's growth has been steady and substan- 

 tial. Maisonneuve's little settlement of less 

 than a hundred has become a metropolis with 

 over half a million souls. The population in 

 1911 was 470,480. In 1915 it was estimated at 

 570,000, and with the suburbs at 656,500. j .A.D. 



Consult Sandham's Villa Marie: or Sketches of 

 Montreal, Past and Present; Hinshelwood's Mon- 

 treal and Vicinity. 



MONTS, mawN, PIERRE DU GUAST, Sieur de 

 (1560-1611), a French explorer and colonizer, 

 remembered as the founder of Acadia. De 

 Monts, who was wealthy and a favorite at 

 court, first appears prominently in 1603, when 

 King Henry IV appointed him governor of the 

 French Company of Canada, with the addi- 

 tional titles of vice-admiral and lieutenant- 

 general. The French Company was given ex- 

 clusive control of the fur trade between latitudes 

 40 and 50 north, and also the right to govern 

 the country, which was named Acadia. With 

 Poutrincourt and Champlain as his chief offi- 

 cers, De Monts embarked at Havre, France, on 

 March 7, 1604. The party explored the Bay 

 of Fundy, spent the winter of 1604 to 1605 'on 

 a small island at the mouth of the Saint Croix 

 River, and in the summer of 1605 founded 

 Port Royal (now Annapolis). Leaving Poutrin- 

 court behind as governor, De Monts returned 

 to France. There he found that jealousy be- 

 cause of his monopoly and his apparent suc- 

 cess had led to the cancellation of his privi- 

 leges, but he managed to recover a part of 

 them and for several years continued to send 

 out expeditions to Canada. One of these expedi- 

 tions, led by Samuel Champlain, founded Que- 

 bec in 1608. After the death of King Henry 



IV, in 1610, De Monts was again deprived of 

 all his privileges, and he died a poor man. 



MOODIE, moo'di, SUSANNA (1803-1885), a 

 Canadian novelist and poet, famous for her 

 vivid pictures of pioneer life in Canada. Her 

 best-known work is Roughing It in the Bush. 

 Others of her books are Enthusiasm, a volume 

 of poems; Life in the Clearings; Mark Hurdle- 

 stone, the Gold Worshipper, her most ambitious 

 novel; Geoffrey Moncton and Dorothy Chance, 

 both novels. Mrs. Moodie was one of a family 

 of five sisters, all of whom are remembered for 

 their writings. Two of them, Agnes and Eliza- 

 beth Strickland, wrote popular histories and 

 historical biographies, and a third, Mrs. Cath- 

 erine Parr Traill, like Mrs. Moodie, wrote 

 sketches of pioneer life in Canada. With her 

 husband, who was a British officer, Mrs. Moodie 

 emigrated in 1832 from England to Upper 

 Canada. They settled first at Port Hope, but 

 later lived for eight years in the backwoods 

 north of Peterborough. Mrs. Moodie's first 

 attempts at writing were short poems and 

 stories for children, but most of her later work 

 was sketches of Canadian life and fiction. 



MOODY, moo'di, DWIGHT LYMAN (1837- 

 1899), one of the most widely-known of Ameri- 

 can evangelists. He was born in Northfield, 

 Mass., and for several years was clerk in a 

 shoe store in Boston, leaving that city in 1856 

 for Chicago, where he entered Christian work 

 and organized a large Sunday School. His 

 work as an evangelist was remarkably success- 

 ful, and a nonsectarian church was organized, 

 with Moody as its' pastor. In the great fire of 

 1871 its building was burned, but another was 

 built which is still known as the Moody Taber- 

 nacle. 



Accompanied by the singer, Ira D. Sankey, 

 he visited Europe in 1873, and great religious 

 awakenings, were the result of the services they 

 held. He and Sankey also held revival meet- 

 ings throughout the United States, and Moody 

 founded the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. 

 His later years were devoted to the upbuilding 

 of a seminary for young women in Northfield, 

 and the Mount Hermon School for Boys at 

 Gill, near that place. He inaugurated the cus- 

 tom of holding summer conferences for Bible 

 study and religious training, also at Northfield. 

 He published How to Study the Bible, The 

 Way and the Word and Secret Power. 



MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHAN (1869-1910), an 

 American poet and dramatist whose early death 

 was a distinct loss to American literature. He 

 produced one play, The Great Divide, which 



