Respectable Burial also highlights how important a role Montreal played in Canada's history. The cemetery is the final resting place of politician Alexander Galt, poet F.R. Scott, hockey star Howie Morenz, explorer David Thompson, bank presidents, renegades, hangmen, and victims of the Titanic. This history of a model rural cemetery, an innovator in perpetual care and proprietor of the first crematorium in Canada, illustrates changing attitudes to burial and commemoration - including the relationships between Protestantism, Romanticism, and death. Young also shows how the cemetery, a site of great natural beauty that helped inspire Frederick Law Olmsted's adjacent Mount Royal Park, became a much-loved public urban space and examines how the evolution of its landscaping, architecture, and use reflect changing attitudes to the place of women, recreation, heritage, and the environment. Incorporating a rich collection of archival illustrations, walking maps, and a colour photo essay by photographer Geoffrey James, Respectable Burial will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian history, parks, and cities.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.4/28
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued also in French under title: Une mort très digne : l'histoire du cimetière Mont-Royal Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 0773525297 9780773570986
- LCCN
- F1054.5.M862
- LCCN Item number
- M689 2003eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (lv, 226 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521438 (OCoLC)180704558 (CaOOCEL)400159
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL