With its focus on sites where identities were forged and contested over crucial decades in Montreal?s history, this collection illuminates the cultural complexity and richness of a modernizing city. Readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, and reformers, among others. This fascinating study explores the intersections of state, people, and the voluntary sector to elucidate the processes that took people between homes and cemeteries, between families and shops, and onto the streets.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 306/.09714/28
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 0774811978 9780774851749
- LCCN
- HN110.M6
- LCCN Item number
- N44 2005eb
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- Original cataloging agency
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 310 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521817 (OCoLC)137342375 (CaOOCEL)404305
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Illustrations 10
- Acknowledgments 12
- 1 Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal 16
- Part 1: Homes and Homelessness 38
- 2 Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender, Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal 40
- 3 Saving the Union’s Jack: The Montreal Sailors’ Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98 64
- 4 Keeping Men Out of “Public or Semi-Public” Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, 1931-34 92
- Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood 114
- 5 Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: The Montreal McCords 116
- 6 Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal 135
- Part 3: Youth, Institutions, and Identities 162
- 7 The Ideal Education to Construct an Ideal World: The Dunham Ladies’ College and the Anglican Elite of the Montreal Diocese, 1860-1913 164
- 8 On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women’s Antidelinquency Work in Interwar Montreal 190
- 9 From Tomorrow’s Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: The Search for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-58 217
- Part 4: Selling and Consumption 248
- 10 “Behind the Store”: Montreal Shopkeeping Families between the Wars 250
- 11 A Ritual Transformed: Women Smokers in Montreal, 1888-1950 274
- Contributors 304
- Index 306
- A 306
- B 307
- C 307
- D 309
- E 310
- F 311
- G 311
- H 312
- I 313
- J 313
- K 314
- L 314
- M 314
- N 316
- O 317
- P 317
- Q 318
- R 318
- S 319
- T 322
- U 322
- V 323
- W 323
- Y 324
- Z 325
