| 1760 | 3,000 |
| 1765 | 7,000 |
| 1800 | 9,000 |
| 1809 | 12,000 |
| 1825 | 22,000 |
| 1831 | 27,000 |
| 1839 | 35,000 |
| 1844 | 44,000 |
| 1870 | 100,000 |
| 1890 | 220,181 |
| 1901 | 266,826 |
| 1911, city proper | 466,197 |
| 1911, Greater Montreal | 587,756 |
COMPARATIVE GROWTH
In the years from 1900 to 1910 Montreal has shown a greater percentage of growth than has any of the great cities of the United States.
The growth in Montreal’s population since 1900 has represented an increase of 188,270 people, or 70.3 per cent.
New York has shown the greatest growth of any city in the United States. The percentage of increase in the same ten years was 38.7.
The following are the comparative figures:
| Per cent. | Area | ||||||
| ——Population—— | of increase | in sq. | |||||
| 1910. | 1900. | 1900-1910. | miles. | ||||
| 1 | New York | 4,766,883 | 3,437,202 | 38 | .7 | 326 | ¾ |
| 2 | Chicago | 2,185,283 | 1,698,575 | 28 | .7 | 190 | ½ |
| 3 | Philadelphia | 1,549,008 | 1,293,697 | 19 | .7 | 129 | ½ |
| 4 | St. Louis | 687,029 | 575,238 | 19 | .4 | 61 | ⅓ |
| 5 | Boston | 670,585 | 560,892 | 19 | .6 | 42 | ⅔ |
| 6 | Cleveland | 560,663 | 381,768 | 46 | .9 | 45 | |
| 7 | Baltimore | 558,485 | 508,957 | 9 | .7 | 31 | ½ |
| 8 | Pittsburg | 533,905 | 451,512 | 18 | .2 | 41 | |
| 9 | Detroit | 465,766 | 285,704 | 63 | 40 | ||
| 10 | Montreal (proper) | 456,000 | 267,730 | 70 | .3 | 18 | .7 |
| 11 | San Francisco | — | 342,782 | — | 43 | ||
| 12 | Buffalo | 423,715 | 352,387 | 20 | .2 | 42 | |
| 13 | Milwaukee | 373,357 | 285,315 | 31 | 22 | ¾ | |
| 14 | Cincinnati | 364,463 | 325,902 | 11 | .8 | 43 | ½ |
| 15 | Newark | 347,469 | 246,070 | 41 | .2 | 23 | |
| 16 | New Orleans | 339,075 | 287,104 | 18 | .1 | 192 | |
| 17 | Washington | 331,069 | 278,718 | 18 | .8 | 69 | ¼ |
A contemporary study of the population of Montreal for 1912 may also be put on record.
There are in regard to population, two Montreals: the people within the civic boundaries and the community of which Montreal city is the heart.