PART II SPECIAL PROGRESS CHAPTER XXIV RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH EARLY CHAPELS AND CHURCHES--THE FIRST PARISH CHURCH--OTHER CHURCHES STANDING AT THE FALL OF MONTREAL--NOTRE DAME DE VICTOIRE--- NOTRE DAME OF PITIE--THE “RECOLLET”--THE PRESENT NOTRE DAME CHURCH--ERECTION AND OPENING--THE “OLD AND NEW”--THE TOWERS AND BELLS--THE ECCLESIASTICAL DIOCESE OF QUEBEC--THE BISHOPS OF MONTREAL--THE DIVISION OF THE CITY INTO PARISHES--THE CHURCHES AND “RELIGIOUS”--ENGLISH-SPEAKING CATHOLICS--ST. PATRICK’S, IRISH NATIONAL CHURCH, ETC. NOTE: THE “RELIGIOUS” COMMUNITIES OF MEN AND WOMEN 251 CHAPTER XXV OTHER RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS ANGLICANISM--EARLY BEGINNINGS--FIRST “CHRIST CHURCH”--THE BISHOPS OF MONTREAL--HISTORY OF EARLY ANGLICAN CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIANISM--ST. GABRIEL’S STREET CHURCH--ITS OFFSHOOTS--THE FREE KIRK MOVEMENT--THE CHURCH OF TODAY. METHODISM--FIRST CHAPEL ON ST. SULPICE, 1809--THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODIST CHURCHES. THE BAPTISTS--FIRST CHAPEL OF ST. HELEN STREET--FURTHER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT--PRESENT CHURCHES. CONGREGATIONALISM--CANADA EDUCATION AND HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY--FIRST CHURCH ON ST. MAURICE STREET--CHURCHES OF TODAY. UNITARIANISM--FIRST SERMON IN CANADA, 1832--ST. JOSEPH STREET CHAPEL--THE CHURCHES OF THE MESSIAH. HEBREWS--SHEARITH ISRAEL--SHAAC HASHOMOYIM AND OTHER CONGREGATIONS. SALVATION ARMY--ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. OTHER DENOMINATIONS. A RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF MONTREAL FOR 1911 271 CHAPTER XXVI 1760-1841 SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MONTREAL BEFORE THE CESSION NEW MOVEMENT FOR BOYS--THE COLLEGE OF MONTREAL--THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION--THE FIRST ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTERS BEFORE 1790--A REPORT OF 1790 FOR THE SCHOOLS OF CANADA--THE DESIRE TO REAR UP A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION--THE JESUITS’ ESTATES--THE “CASE” AGAINST AMHERST’S CLAIM TO THE JESUITS’ ESTATES AND FOR THEIR DIVERGENCE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION--NEW ENGLISH MOVEMENT FOR A GENERAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION--THE ACT OF 1801--THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING--NEVER A POPULAR SUCCESS--ITS REFORM IN 1818--A COUNTERPOISE--THE FABRIQUE ACT OF 1824--REVIEW OF SCHOOLS UNDER THE ROYAL INSTITUTION--SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS--REVIEW OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS--LAY SCHOOLS--LORD DURHAM’S REPORT ON EDUCATION. NOTE: THE JESUITS’ ESTATES 293 CHAPTER XXVII 1841-1914 THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AFTER THE UNION THE RISE OF THE “SCHOOL COMMISSIONS OF MONTREAL”