Timeline

          

  1941   First edition of the daily Montreal-Matin

1941-09-01   Opening of the Dorval International Airport

1944-04-19   Crash of a small aircraft in Griffintown: 15 dead

1944-08-14   Camillien Houde greeted after 4 years in jail by thousands of people at Windsor Station

1944-12-11   Camillien Houde elected mayor

1946   Establishment of Les Alouettes, Montreal’s football team in the CFL

1951   Birth of the Commission de Transport de Montral ancestor of the actual STM

1955-03-17    Riot on St. Catherine following the suspension of Maurice Richard

1955   Dorchester street is is widened in boulevard , many building where destroyed to make place to the new axis

1959-06-26   Inauguration of the St. Lawrence maritime way