The warning label on a pack of smokes in Montreal.
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Warning: Cigarettes Hurt Babies
Tobacco use during pregnancy reduces the growth of babies during pregnancy. These smaller babies may not catch up in growth after birth and the risks of infant illness, disability and death are increased.
Health Canada.
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This statue of James McGill, founder of McGill University, was commissioned by the McGill Associates in celeberation of the 175th anniversary of the University and unveiled on June 6, 1996. The sculptor is David Roper-Curzon.
McGill University, named after James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university, was founded in 1821. Chartered during the British colonial era, 46 years before the Canadian Confederation, it is also the first non-denominational university in the British Empire. McGill's main campus is set upon 80 acres) at the foot of Mount Royal. A second campus, Macdonald Campus, is situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 30 kilometres west of the downtown campus.
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Hochelaga National Historic Site of Canada is a cultural landscape recalling a former Iroquois village, consisting of a grass-covered space about 79 square metres in area. The site is located to the left of the main entrance of McGill University on Sherbrooke Street, Montreal. The official recognition applies to the area within a radius of 5 metres around a stone, which was laid in 1925 and on which the plaque is mounted.
Near here was the site of the fortified town of Hochelaga visited by Jacques Cartier, in 1535, abandoned before 1600. It contained fifty large houses, each lodging several families who subsisted by cultivation & fishing.
McGill University, named after James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university, was founded in 1821. Chartered during the British colonial era, 46 years before the Canadian Confederation, it is also the first non-denominational university in the British Empire. McGill's main campus is set upon 80 acres) at the foot of Mount Royal. A second campus, Macdonald Campus, is situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 30 kilometres west of the downtown campus.
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The Sir Wilfrid Laurier Memorial was constructed in 1953 by Emile Brunet on the southern side of Square Dorchester, facing towards the United States. Laurier, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister, was a proponent of an early free-trade agreement with the United States and wanted to develop a more continental economic orientation.
Square Dorchester, part of Dominion Square until 1967, was developed along with the adjacent Place Du Canada between 1872 and 1892. After the death of René Lévesque in 1987, Dorchester Boulevard was re-named in his honour and the park was re-named after Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester. The four principal monuments--the others being the Robert Burns Memorial, the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Fountain, and Canadians in the Boer War Memorial--in the square are arranged to form an equilateral cross with the kiosk towards the Dominion Square Building.
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Basilique-Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde, at 1085 rue de la Cathédrale, a one-quarter scale model of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, was consecrated in 1894 as Cathédrale Saint-James. Construction, which began in 1875 under Fr. Joseph Michaud, was ordered by Mgr. Ignance Bourget, second bishop of Montreal, to replace the former Cathédrale-Saint-Jacques Cathedral, which burned in 1852, as the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal. The cathedral was made into a minor basilica in 1919 by Pope Benedict XV, and rededicated in 1955 to Mary, Queen of the World, by Pope Pius XII at the request of cardinal Paul-Émile Léger. At the time of its completion, it was the largest church in Québec, and today is the third largest at 4,700 square meters.
The Baroque Revival style building is characterized by a prominent narthex built in coursed ashlar, surmounted by a monumental dome, 77 meters in height. Instead of the statues of the twelve apostles on the façade of St. Peter's, the front of the church is topped by statues of the patron saints of thirteen parishes of Montreal who donated them, including St. John the Baptist and St. Patrick. The interior, which is also copied from St. Peter's, includes a baldachin, which is a scale model of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's original.
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