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  2. Maison Saint-Gabriel - Wikipedia

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    The museum consists of a small farm, which has been administered for more than 300 years by the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal, founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys in Montreal in 1658. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007. [2] [3]

  3. Imperial Plots - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Plots focuses on the gendered aspects of the history of homesteading in Canada, and the ways that this history interacted with ideas about race. In Canada, women were denied the same homesteading rights accorded to men from 1876 to 1930, when the homesteading era, integral to the Canadian settlement of the Prairies, was largely ...

  4. List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Montreal

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    This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in Montreal, Quebec and surrounding municipalities on the Island of Montreal.. As of 2018, there are 61 National Historic Sites in this region, [1] of which four (Lachine Canal, Louis-Joseph Papineau, Sir George-Étienne Cartier and The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site) are administered by Parks Canada ...

  5. List of neighbourhoods in Montreal - Wikipedia

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    Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after Toronto. There are around 250,000 Montrealers of Italian ancestry living within its Metropolitan Area. Montreal's Little Italy, located on St. Lawrence Boulevard between Jean-Talon and St. Zotique, is home to Montreal's original Italian Canadian community. Although many Italians ...

  6. Dominion Lands Act - Wikipedia

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    The Act was closely based on the U.S. Homestead Act of 1862, setting conditions in which the western lands could be settled and their natural resources developed. In 1871, the Government of Canada entered into Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 to obtain the consent of the Indigenous nations from the territories set out respectively in each Treaty. The ...

  7. List of oldest buildings and structures in Montreal - Wikipedia

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    Old Montreal 45°30′14″N 73°33′25″W  /  45.50389°N 73.55694°W  / 45.50389; -73.55694  ( Saint-Sulpice Sulpician Towers / Fort de la Montagne

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  9. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The intent of the Homestead Act of 1862 [24] [25] was to reduce the cost of homesteading under the Preemption Act; after the South seceded and their delegates left Congress in 1861, the Republicans and supporters from the upper South passed a homestead act signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, which went into effect on Jan. 1st, 1863.