Rules and regulations of police for Montreal, 1765-1832

The table below lists the rules and regulations of police for Montreal promulgated by the city's justices of the peace before the first incorporation of the city in 1833. The table does not include temporary orders (such as the annual orders to remove snow), or orders that simply continued previous orders. All rules and regulations apart from those marked † can be found in the registers of the Quarter Sessions (BAnQ-M TL32 S1 SS11) at the date given; additional locations are also given when known.

QG: Quebec Gazette
MG: Montreal Gazette
MH: Montreal Herald
CIHM: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (fiche number)
Add: Règles et règlements de police additionnels pour la cité et les faubourgs de Montréal, publiés par autorité (Montreal, 1826)
Baby: Université de Montréal, Collection Baby
BAnQ-M: BAnQ-M, P1000-44/871

For more information on the justices' legislative actions, see the book, pages 23-32.

 

Date Substance Additional locations
13/10/1765 hobbling horses  
10/4/1766 full set (7 articles)  
10/7/1766 fencing in animals, mastiffs  
8/1/1767 weight of flour and hay, carts in front of Parish Church  
10/4/1769 beggars  
23/12/1771 levelling snow, carters  
5/5/1777† full set (19 articles) QG 12/6/1777
20/7/1779 billiard tables  
10/11/1779 goats  
15/1/1780 market  
19/4/1780 butchers, hay/straw, carters  
12/1/1781 various QG 25/1/1781
30/4/1781 various QG 17/5/1781
4/12/1781 street-cleaning  
16/4/1782 lotteries QG 16/5/1782
14/11/1782 firewood  
30/4/1783† full set (41 articles) QG 22/5/1783
16/7/1783 rafts  
16/4/1784 billiard tables  
26/5/1785 carters, drains QG 16/6/1785
21/4/1786 full set (43 articles) QG 11/5/1786
22/7/1786 markets, carters QG 10/8/1786
8/5/1787 various QG 17/5/1787
28/7/1788 various QG 7/8/1788
17/11/1789 full set (62 articles) QG 25/2/1790
20/4/1790 ferries  
15/1/1791† markets QSD
16/7/1796 carters  
19/1/1797 full (50 articles) MG 1/5/1797
29/4/1797† building/paving MG 8/5/1797
19/7/1797 fire  
19/7/1798 slaughterhouses  
19/1/1799 carriages in market, buildings in river  
30/4/1799 Sunday games on Place d'Armes  
19/7/1799 various  
19/7/1799 hay MG 29/7/1799
30/4/1800 full set (46 articles) Baby K-63
12/7/1800 carters' rates MG 9/11/1800
18/7/1801 beach  
30/10/1801 strangers, fire MG 9/11/1801
19/7/1802 begging  
19/7/1802 masters/servants/apprentices  
30/4/1803 full set (65 articles) ANQM
30/4/1804 walls, dung/garbage, crier MG 28/1/1805
30/4/1805 dung/garbage, woodchips, stray animals ANQM
19/7/1806 nude bathing, markets ANQM
19/1/1807 chimney heights/sweeping  
30/4/1807 ferries  
17/7/1807 Commissioners' Street, beach ANQM
19/7/1808† markets, fire, New Market, beach MG 19/7/1808
19/1/1809 New Market CIHM 42552
29/4/1809† ovens, carters MG 26/6/1810
19/1/1810 full set (77 articles) MG 5/3/1810, CIHM 40238
30/4/1810 market day CIHM 51800
19/7/1810† masters/servants/apprentices MG 17/9/1810
19/4/1811† masters/servants/apprentices MG 15/7/1811
19/7/1811† markets, roads MG 16/9/1811
17/1/1812† begging QSD
30/4/1813† ferries MG 18/5/1813
19/1/1814 markets MG 8/3/1814
19/1/1815† firewood on beach MG 27/4/1815
21/4/1815 ferries CIHM 55296
19/7/1815 hay market  
30/4/1817 full set (112 articles) MH 21/6/1817, CIHM 40779
19/7/1817 markets, flags/signs MG 3/9/1817
19/1/1819 begging  
19/1/1821 full set (104 articles) MH 14/3/1821
28/4/1821 carters  
19/7/1821 beach, markets Add
19/1/1822 public works, markets Add
30/4/1822 begging Add
19/7/1822 carters Add
25/10/1822 ferries  
24/10/1823 regratiers  
19/1/1824 building Add, CIHM 43134
30/4/1824 bakers  
19/7/1824 regratiers Add
30/4/1829 beach, markets  
19/1/1830 markets  
26/4/1830 ferries CIHM 43703