The following image and caption were found while browsing through microfilm in Montréal’s main library—a simply amazing artistic rendition of a Montreal “of the future”, published just after the turn of the century. Who knows, if we end-up seriously seeking a truly carbon-neutral society, these predictions may end up coming true, in a sense. -Neale

If the steady march of technological progress continues, the caption says, airships such as these will fly across the Atlantic Ocean every two days, while nine-masted schooners ply the waters of Montreal harbour, and buildings of forty storeys tower in the background. Interestingly, in pointing out the artist’s inclusion of the Union Jack on the airship, the caption asks, “In twenty-five years’ time, will we be under the same flag?”

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