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Montreal, in Canada, is so named because all the streets are named after saints.
“Mr. Geo. Martin … said he came from [Montreal] a city of saints, where all the streets were named after saints.”—Secular Thought, September 10th, 1891.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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