The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
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Therefore, it has long been acknowledged, that education, as it respects those who are unprovided with it, ought to become a national concern: and this has been so long the public opinion, that no doubt it would have become so, had not a mere pharasaical sectmaking spirit intervened to prevent it; and that in every party.
Joseph Lancaster