 | André Siegfried - Canada - 1907 - 360 pages
...It is the same at Montreal. Visitors may pass whole weeks there, frequenting hotels, banks, shops, railway stations, without ever imagining for a moment...and bears itself exactly as though it had no French neighbours. They seem to regard Montreal as their property. As they have got to this height, not by... | |
 | Paul-André Linteau, René Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert - History - 1983 - 628 pages
...menials. " 1n Montreal, he wrote, "visitors may pass whole weeks there, frequenting hotels, banks, shops, railway stations without ever imagining for a moment...and bears itself exactly as though it had no French neighbours. They seem to regard Montreal as their property." How could this phenomenon be explained?... | |
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Visitors may pass whole weeks there, frequenting hotels, banks, shops, railway stations, without ever imagining for a moment that the town is French by a great majority of its inhabitants. English Society affects unconsciousness of the fact, and bears... 