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Title Montreal : the history of a North American city / edited by Dany Fougeres and Roderick Macleod
Published Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes) : maps
Summary Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and environmental history to show that while certain distinctive features remain unchanged - Mount Royal, the Lachine Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River - human intervention and urban evolution mean that over time Montrealers have had drastically different experiences and historical understandings. Significant issues such as religion, government, social conditions, the economy, labour, transportation, culture and entertainment, and scientific and technological innovation are treated thematically in innovative and diverse chapters to illuminate how people's lives changed along with the transformation of Montreal. This history of a city in motion presents an entire picture of the changes that have marked the region as it spread from the old city of Ville-Marie into parishes, autonomous towns, boroughs, and suburbs on and off the island. The first volume encompasses the city up to 1930, vividly depicting the lives of First Nations prior to the arrival of Europeans, colonization by the French, and the beginning of British Rule
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
SUBJECT Montréal (Québec) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002319
Subject Québec -- Montréal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fougères, Dany, 1963- editor.
Macleod, Roderick, editor
ISBN 9780773552692
0773552693