The City Hall and Jacques Cartier SquareChateau de Ramsay, 1912; built in 1705

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MONTREAL AND WORLD CITIES

But there is still another interesting comparison to be made—how does Montreal stand among the cities of the world? Here is the answer:

1.London7,429,740
2.New York4,766,883
3.Paris2,763,393
4.Tokio, Japan2,186,079
5.Chicago2,185,283
6.Berlin2,101,933
7.Vienna2,085,888
8.St. Petersburg1,678,000
9.Canton1,600,000
10.Pekin, estimated1,600,000
11.Philadelphia1,549,000
12.Moscow1,359,254
13.Constantinople1,125,000
14.Osaka, Japan1,117,151
15.Calcutta1,026,987
16.Buenos Ayres1,000,250
17.Rio de Janeiro811,265
18.Hamburg802,793
19.Bombay776,006
20.Warsaw756,426
21.Glasgow735,906
22.Buda Pesth732,322
23.Liverpool702,247
24.St. Louis687,029
25.Boston670,585
26.MONTREAL, 1911625,000
27.Brussels612,401
28.Manchester606,751
29.Bangkok600,000
30.Cairo570,062
31.Naples563,541
32.Cleveland560,663
33.Baltimore558,485
34.Amsterdam557,614
35.Madrid539,885
36.Munich538,983
37.Pittsburg533,905
38.Barcelona533,090
39.Birmingham, Eng.522,182
40.Dresden516,996
41.Madras509,346
42.Leipzig503,672
43.Melbourne496,079
44.Milan491,460
45.Marseilles491,161
46.Sydney481,830
47.Copenhagen476,806
48.Breslau470,904
49.Detroit465,766
50.Rome462,783
51.Lyons459,099
52.Odessa449,673
53.Hyderabad448,466
54.Leeds428,953
55.Cologne428,722
56.Buffalo423,715
57.San Francisco416,912
58.Sheffield409,070
59.Toronto, and suburbs381,000
60.Kioto, Japan380,568
61.Shanghai, est.380,000
62.Milwaukee373,357
63.Rotterdam370,389
64.Cincinnati364,463
65.Lisbon356,009
66.Lodz351,570
67.Belfast349,180
68.Newark, N.J.347,469
69.Kobe, Japan345,952
70.Mexico City344,721
71.New Orleans339,075
72.Bristol339,042
73.Turin335,656
74.Frankfort334,538
75.Santiago334,538
76.Washington331,069
77.Yokohama326,035
78.Alexandria319,766
79.Kiev319,000
80.Stockholm317,964
81.Edinburgh316,479
82.Palermo309,694
83.Minneapolis301,408
84.Montevideo298,127
85.Nuremburg294,426
86.Antwerp291,949
87.Dublin290,638
88.Nagoya288,039
89.Hong Kong283,905
90.Teheran280,000
91.Bradford, Eng.279,809
92.Bucharest276,178
93.Havana275,000
94.Jersey City267,779
95.MONTREAL, 1901267,730

VI

OPTIMISTIC SPECULATIONS AND PROPHECIES

By this table Montreal jumps to twenty-sixth place in the list of great cities. In 1901 she stood ninety-fifth in the same list. This position, however, is not as conclusively Montreal’s due as is her rank in the table of North American cities, for the reason that it is not possible to speak with exactitude regarding the actual size of the cities below Montreal when their suburbs are included. Manchester, so considered, is no doubt much larger. However, the position accorded the city cannot be far wrong, and there is no gainsaying the fact that Montreal has grown in ten years from the ninety-fifth place among the cities of the world to a place in the first thirty or forty.