Montreal's past is an extremely glorious part of Canada's history and explains many of Canada's policies today. Even before France came to Quebec to dream of establishing the Second French Empire, the Algonkians, Hurons, and Iroquois all clashed together.
Montreal quickly became the main market for fur trading with the Iroquois. Jacques Cartier was the first European to reach the island of Montreal in 1701, but the first permanent settlement of European immigrants on the island was not established until 1642, when people named Mount Royal, the name of the city is also likely to originate here. Colonies were often attacked before the treaty was signed. With the rapid development of the fur trade, Montreal gradually became the colonial base and commercial center of the New French Empire.
But the troubles here never stopped, starting with the protracted French-Indian War of 1757-1763. The war became a turning point in the French sphere of influence in North America when the British captured Quebec City in 1759, which also set the stage for the eventual capture of Montreal. Montreal briefly became the capital of New France until Marquis De Vaudreuil surrendered to Amherst (General Amherst) and returned to its original town identity.
The Period of British Occupation was interrupted for seven months in 1775 as Americans captured the city of Montreal. After these accidents, a large influx of Irish and Scottish immigrants turned the city into the second largest city in North America. But this trend is not smooth. The failure of the French revolt of 1837 against British rule was followed by a series of exiles and executions. In 1867, the Dominion of Canada became the new country's main seaport, railway hub, banking center and industrial production town.
Although Montreal's fur trade was in decline, by 1900 the expanding shipping industry and railroads had made Montreal a commercial and cultural center for Canada. Central and Eastern European immigrants who come here in search of work create Montreal's diverse character. With the influx of European Jews into Montreal in the 20th century, the ethnic settlements continued to expand. After the two world wars, this trend of continuous immigration continued to pour into the city and swelled so sharply that Montreal became a "sin city" for a time, of course, partly due to prohibition in the United States.
During the Prohibition era in the United States, Quebec became the wine supply of the entire continent, and the Molson family of Molson became rich. At the same time, prostitution and gambling were protected by the authorities. The urban middle class that accompanied Montreal's transition to a manufacturing hub also emerged. The population of the city of Montreal reached 500,000 in 1911 and doubled in waves of European immigration over the next two decades.
By the early 1950s, Montreal's population had surpassed a million that of The new mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, had devised a series of plans to change the city's old appearance, a new subway system and the expansion of the underground port of Montreal and the widening of the sea route of the St. Lawrence River. During this period, high-rise buildings competed to stand on the 43rd floor of the City's Place Ville-Marie and the 47-storey Tour de la Bourse. Two new museums were built and in 1966 the metro and several highways were opened.
And successfully attracted more than 50 million tourists at the 1967 Montreal World Exposition and the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, which also greatly enhanced Montreal's international popularity. Except for those five years in the early 1960s, De La Poe was beloved mayor of Montreal until the mid-1980s. The "Silent Revolution" that sparked eventually gained a greater voice in industry and politics for French Quebecers and established the dominance of the French language in Quebec.
The negative impact of the campaign was to divert foreign investors to more stable regional development, which undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to Montreal and exacerbated the economic depression of the early 1990s, which became the biggest problem facing Montreal during this period. However, the problem of separatism not only did not disappear with the end of the referendum, but the separatist-led Parti Qubecois even entered the political arena. Despite the still serious and complex issues, the polls of Montreal residents show that residents strongly support the unification of Canada.