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When did Montreal get electric lighting and electric tramways?
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Montreal introduced its first electric lighting in 1882, and the city's first electric tramways began operation in 1892. By 1894, the entire public transit system had been electrified, leading to the withdrawal of the last horse-drawn streetcars.12