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

Anastakis, Dimitry (EDT); Kirkland, Elizabeth (EDT); Nerbas, Don (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1487508050 / ISBN 13: 9781487508050

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Montreal's Square Mile : The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487508050
• ISBN 13: 9781487508050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.