Montreal’s 240 miles of brick sewers, if placed end to end, would reach from here to Ottawa and back, with sufficient over to reach Coteau.
Montreal’s tramways system owns and operates 125 miles of line all over the island.
Montreal’s streets are illuminated by over three thousand separate lights.
Montreal street cars this year have carried over one hundred and twenty million passengers.
There are sixty-three parishes and 800 priests in the diocese of Montreal.
Montreal has 731 schools, public, high and convents.
There are seventy-two hospitals, public and private, and asylums in Montreal.
The city has two seminaries and two universities.
Other educational establishments in Montreal include eight classical colleges.
Property under the jurisdiction of the Montreal Harbor Commission on the Montreal side of the river is worth over twenty million dollars.