SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 23 



their headquarters in the city. Hospitals, well staffed 

 and richly endowed, provide for the sick, of which the 

 Royal Victoria and the Montreal General are the 

 principal. Recreations are fostered in public grounds, 

 of 460 acres, and in private clubs for golf, angling and 

 shooting. There are many buildings in the Royal 

 City of imposing architectural dimensions. Notre- 

 Dame, the towers of which rise high above shops and 

 warehouses, is said to be the second largest church in 

 America, and St. James* Cathedral is modelled on the 

 design of St. Peter's at Rome. All the great Protes- 

 tant denominations have built their churches on an 

 imposing, and in many cases magnificent, scale, and 

 the Jews have their own synagogue. 



At the foot of Mount Royal the finest private 

 mansions of the prosperous citizens are erected. 

 They are the outward and visible sign of the new 

 age of an advanced civilization, as truly as the 

 wigwams of two hundred years ago, that occupied 

 the same sites, witnessed the age of crudeness and 

 barbarity. 



Following the St. Lawrence River, Ste. Anne de 

 Bellevue is reached, which is more closely associated 

 with the fortunes of Champlain. The wealth of 

 Montreal has overflowed to this charming resort. 

 Through the munificence of Sir Wm. C. Macdonald, 

 one of the merchant princes of Montreal, a magnificent 

 college has been erected at Ste. Anne's. It covers 561 

 acres, and is replete with facilities for teaching and 



