On the afternoon of May 24, 1876, a parade wound through the streets of Montreal and up toward the base of the mountain. Meteorological records are scant this far back, but late May generally brings comfortable spring weather. There were speeches, cannon fire, and a grand picnic lunch laid out in the open air. Mount Royal Park—200 hectares of forested hillside acquired by the city at a cost of over a million dollars and designed by the most celebrated landscape architect in North America—was inaugurated.
And on the very day of the inauguration, city council approved the construction of a funicular railway, a steam-powered shortcut to the summit that would, within a decade, whisk impatient Montrealers directly to the top in a matter of minutes.
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