* 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

* April 25 – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, the Governor General of Canada, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction.

Arriving as immigrants in Canada when English was often viewed as the sole official language ( although Canada was officially a bilingual country ), the Jewish communities in Montreal and Quebec largely became English speakers after using Yiddish.

In 1963, she was on a panel that gave the Montreal World's Fair, Expo 67, its theme: Terres des hommes or in English Man and His World.

Jacques owned a trendy nightclub and restaurant in Montreal called Newtown, which is the English translation of his French last name (' Ville ' means ' Town ', and ' Neuve ' means ' new ').

The new board's first act was to take applications for " second " television stations in Halifax, Montreal ( in both English and French ), Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver in response to an outcry for an alternative to the CBC's television service.

* CFCF-TV Montreal ( English ) ( January 20, 1961 )

Montreal broadcasts were hosted by Doug Smith and Elmer Ferguson broadcast for Montreal Maroons games in English and René Lecavalier broadcast Montreal Canadiens games in French.

The story, about a young boy who orders a Montreal Canadiens sweater from the Eaton's catalogue, but receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey instead, is considered by many to be a literary allegory for the linguistic and cultural tensions between English and French Canadians, and is thus considered essential reading for anybody who seeks to understand the complex realities of linguistic and cultural identity in Canada.

But Patrick Mahony, a psychoanalyst and professor of English at the University of Montreal, has discovered several discrepancies between Freud's own case notes and his published narrative of the treatment.

D ' Arcy McGee also has several schools named in his honour including: D ' Arcy McGee Catholic School ( elementary, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Toronto, Ontario ) and Thomas D ' Arcy McGee Catholic School ( elementary, Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board, Ottawa, Ontario ), D ' Arcy McGee High School, Western Québec School Board ( Gatineau, Québec ) and Thomas D ' Arcy McGee Catholic High School in Montreal which closed in 1992 ( English Catholic School Board of Greater Montreal )

In addition to the English and French-language studios in its Montreal HQ, there are centres throughout Canada.

The successful English attack on Quebec in 1759 and on Montreal in 1760 virtually guaranteed the loss of French Canada, although France remained in control of Missouri and the rest of the Illinois Country.

The Iroquois nation, deserted by their English allies, continued to make war on the French colonies until the Great Peace of Montreal of 1701.

Bilingual cities like Montreal and Ottawa have important papers in both French and English.

Dawson College was the first English Collège d ’ enseignement général et professionnel ( CEGEP ) and is located in Westmount, just west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Tobin helped organize a pro-Canada rally in Montreal before the October 1995 Quebec referendum — busing in thousands of university students and other residents from English Canada.

It is occasionally referred to as Montreal Polytechnic, although in Quebec English its French name is more commonly used.

Michel Tremblay, CQ ( born in Montreal, Quebec 25 June 1942 ) is a Canadian novelist and playwright.

Pierre Trudeau was born in Montreal to Charles-Émile Trudeau, a French Canadian businessman and lawyer, and Grace Elliott, who was of French and Scottish descent.

Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1954, to a middle-class Jewish family.

Altman was born on May 7, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The son of a Jewish scrap yard dealer, Richler was born in 1931 and raised on St. Urbain Street in the Mile End area of Montreal.

Paul Rose, born October 16, 1943, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Quebec sovereigntist terrorist who was convicted of kidnapping and murder by strangulation of Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte in 1970.

He was born in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal.

* Bob Price ( born 1955 ), former head coach of the Montreal Alouettes, now tight end coach and recruiting coordinator for the Virginia Cavaliers.

* Paul Mara ( born 1979 ), National Hockey League defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens formerly of the New York Rangers, was born in Ridgewood but was raised in Belmont, Massachusetts.

* Bob Sebra, ( born 1961 ), MLB player for the Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and the Milwaukee Brewers.

* Dan Smith ( born 1975 ), former MLB pitcher who played for the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox.

* Steve Rogers ( born 1949 ), former pitcher for the Montreal Expos.

* Joseph Sullivan, FBI agent, was born in Montreal.

Pierre Laporte was born in Montreal, Quebec ; the grandson of the famous Canadian statesman Alfred Leduc.

The Krofft brothers, Sid and Marty, were born in Montreal.

John Gilbert " Jack " Layton was born in Montreal and raised in nearby Hudson, Quebec, a comfortable and largely Anglophone community.

Kai Nielsen ( born 1926 ) is adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Calgary.

Nelligan was born in Montreal on December 24, 1879 at 602, rue de La Gauchetière.

Mail delivery within Canada first started in 1693 when the Portuguese born Pedro da Silva was paid to deliver mail between Quebec City and Montreal.

Huntley Gordon ( October 8, 1887-December 7, 1956 ) was an actor born in Montreal, Quebec.

Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec to a prominent upper-class family, but his family fell on hard times after his father's business failed, which ultimately led to his parents ' separation.

Louis-Joseph Papineau ( October 7, 1786 – September 25, 1871 ), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation.