In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations.
Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of fields of historical investigation, this collection tells the story of the Square Mile from its origins to its decline. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family and home life, business and high politics, architecture and urban redevelopment, this interdisciplinary and richly illustrated volume presents a new account of the history of the Square Mile and an investigation of its impact beyond the immediate urban environment.
Edited by:
Dimitry Anastakis,
Elizabeth Kirkland,
Don Nerbas
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9781487525699
ISBN 10: 1487525699
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don Nerbas The Square Mile: A Singular Topography (Vignettes by Julia Gersovitz) Part I: Frameworks and Perspectives 1. The High Ground: Mansions, Mythology, and the Mountain Roderick MacLeod First Development: From Apple Orchards to Building Lots 2. Property and Power: Connecting the Dots Sherry Olson Widening Influences Part II: Constructing Business Networks and Institutions 3. Others of More Enterprise: Thomas Morland and the Formation of Montreal Rolling Mills, 1858–68 Jean-Philip Mathieu McGill University 4. “Dear Richard… send us a few buffalo tongues”: Donald Smith’s Fur Trade Contacts and Personal Credit Networks Max Hamon Row and Terrace Housing Part III: Family, Gender, and Property 5. Marriage, Property, and the Law in a Square Mile Family: The Case of Annie Stevenson Anderson vs David Morrice, 1884–85 Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore Hugh Allan and Ravenscrag 6. Searching for Intimacies beyond the Notman Photographs: The Case of Amy Redpath Roddick Elizabeth Kirkland and Mary Anne Poutanen The Creation of Mount Royal Park 7. Gender and Social Relations in the City above the Hill Robert C.H. Sweeny Houses of Worship Part IV: Professional and Business Worlds in Transformation 8. Max Aitken in Montreal: Financial Innovation and Creative Gregory P. Marchildon Destruction in the Laurier Boom The Stanley Street Presbyterian Church 9. “Glad of your help”: Scottish Architects in Montreal, 1860–1940 Annmarie Adams The Art Association, Phillips Square 10. The Changing of the Guard: Bartlett McLennan, Roy Wolvin, and the Leveraged Buyout of the Montreal Transportation Company, 1903–21 M. Stephen Salmon Architects Unite Part V: Crisis and Decline- 11. Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers’ First World War Letters Nicolas Kenny A Consistent Material Palette 12. The Death of the Golden Square Mile? Understanding the Transformation of an Urban District, 1945–85 Harold Bérubé 1920s: Beginning of the End Afterword Brian J. Young Index
Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Elizabeth Kirkland is a faculty member in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College. Don Nerbas is an associate professor and the St. Andrew’s Society / McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.
