Montreal's Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole

Book Overview

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 neighbourhood, from its origins to its decline, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. 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 Square Mile's history and an investigation of the neighbourhood's impact beyond the immediate urban environment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487508050
• ISBN13: 9781487508050
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher