The City of Montreal paid, in 1913, for the relief of destitute persons a sum of $497,712.35, as follows:
| Remittance of assessments | $231,316.60 |
| Grants | 105,996.00 |
| Maintenance of insane | 83,249.60 |
| Maintenance of children in industrial schools | 69,450.15 |
| Miscellaneous | 7,700.00 |
| —————— | |
| Total | $497,712.35 |
| Or $53,809.94 more than in 1912. | |
| In 1912 | $443,902.41 |
| In 1911 | 356,758.00 |
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Quoted from “Hochelaga Depicta.”
[2] The Sulpicians and the Grey Nuns early commenced their connection with Irish orphans. In 1758, M. de Lavalinière, a Sulpician, succeeded by his entreaties and promises in rescuing an Irish child of the name of O’Flaherty from the hands of fierce Indians. She was but a few months old and was already tied to the stake to be burned alive with her mother when the generous liberator came to the rescue. Madame d’Youville voluntarily consented to take charge of her, and the child became a Grey Nun.
[3] Cf. the reminiscences of a leading citizen given in the Montreal Star of January 2, 1912. The work itself is so well known that the writer has thought it necessary to indicate only its general history.