Excerpt from Abstract of a Course of Ten Lectures on Municipal Administration in Montreal: Delivered in Connection With the Educational Work of the Young Men's Christian Association of Montreal, 1895-6 Montreal, during the French rule, was nominally in charge of local governors, but was really, like the other towns and villages, under the'co-utro-l of the Council and Intendent at Quebec. Of these local French governors there were sixteen, and the names of some are still preserved in the nomenclature of our streets, such as Maisonneuve, Berthe-lot, Lemoine, Vaudreuil and others. After the conquest, for a brief period, the city was under direct military. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.