Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 1969.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.428
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773594494 9780773542198
- LCCN
- F1054.5.M857
- LCCN Item number
- C6 1969eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vii, 217 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234787 (OCoLC)887634950 (CaOOCEL)448195
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 2
- Copyright 3
- Contents 6
- Preface 4
- 1 Early Montreal 1642-1817 9
- Discovery and the French Fact 9
- Ville Marie 10
- The Fur-trading Community 11
- The Era of Revolution, 1760-1817 12
- The Cession 13
- The American Revolution 16
- The French Revolution 16
- The New Economy 17
- 2 Hopes Raised by Steam 19
- The Grand Trunk Era 22
- The Port 24
- 3 Nineteenth-Century Montreal 26
- The Immigrant Tide 26
- Organization 27
- Tensions 29
- "Dismemberment" of the Parish of Montreal 30
- 4 Municipal Government, Part I: The Art of the Possible 32
- A Lengthy Look Behind 32
- The Early Elective Regime 34
- 5 On The Eve of Confederation 37
- The Fact—Material Improvement 37
- The Prevailing Mood 39
- A Neighbour's War 40
- 6 Montreal and Confederation 44
- Montreal's Fathers of Confederation 46
- The Common Man and Confederation 48
- The Critics of Confederation 50
- An Opportunity Missed 51
- The Debit Side of the Ledger 52
- 7 Across The Continent and Beyond 54
- The Quebec Montreal Ottawa and Occidental 55
- The Transcontinental—Failure 56
- Frustration 57
- The Transcontinental—Success 59
- The Canadian Pacific in Montreal 62
- Montreal and the West 65
- The New North-West Passage 65
- 8 O God! O Montreal! 67
- Universities 67
- Schools 70
- Adult Education 73
- The Newspaper Press 75
- Victorian Entertainment 78
- 9 The Post-Confederation City 81
- The Structure of the City 81
- The Temper of the Times: Commercial, Military, and Sporting 85
- A Period of Civic Strife 89
- 10 "THE CITY BELOW THE HILL" 93
- Work, Wages, and Living 93
- The French and English Worlds 100
- The Beginning of Multiracialism 102
- 11 Municipal Government, Part II: La Maree Americaine 104
- Franchises and Annexations 106
- Raymonde Prefontaine 109
- 12 Transport, Communications, Power 111
- The Lachine Rail-Road 111
- Les petits chars 112
- Electric Traction 113
- The New Suburbs 113
- The Automobile 114
- Communications 115
- Lighting 116
- Power 117
- 13 The Era of Consolidation 120
- Early Mergers 120
- Max Aitken in Montreal 123
- The Captive Press 125
- 14 The Early Twentieth Century 130
- Montreal Air Meets, 1906 and 1910 130
- Population Growth 131
- The Movement Uptown 133
- Expansion North and East 133
- Major Annexations: Ste-Cunegonde; St-Henri; Maisonneuve 135
- Westmount; Outremont 135
- Verdun, Lachine; Montreal West; St-Laurent 136
- The Town of Mount Royal 137
- The Emergence of a New Class 138
- The New Broom at Quebec 139
- Le regime des honnetes gens 142
- 15 1914 and Afterwards 144
- Mederic Martin 145
- Election Background 146
- The Municipal Elections of 1914 147
- Aftermath 151
- The First World War 152
- 16 Prosperity—Depression—War 159
- Prosperity 159
- The St. Lawrence Seaway—The First Phase 165
- The Sixtieth Anniversary of Confederation 166
- The End of the Martin Era 168
- Who's Houde? 170
- Depression—the 1930's 172
- Prelude to War 176
- The Second World War 179
- 17 The Great Transformation 182
- The New Industrialism 182
- The Modern Montrealers 185
- The Church's Role 189
- Montreal sous le regime de la Ogre 191
- The First Drapeau Administration 194
- The New Landmarks 196
- Decentralization and Urban Transportation 198
- Le Parti civique 199
- Expo 67 201
- Notes to Chapters 206
- A Note Regarding Sources 216
- Index 218