Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montreal

Lambert, Phyllis (INSCRIBED) & Alan Stewart (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0262620863 / ISBN 13: 9780262620864

Published by Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 1992

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Based on a 15-year study of manuscript sources from Europe and North America, the book 'focuses on the inter-relationships of 3 key elements of Montreal's urban form: its fortification; the ownership, distribution and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings.' Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Opening the gates of Eighteenth Century Montreal', shown at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, from 9 September 1992 to 17 January, 1993 and curated by Phyllis Lambert & Alan Stewart. The exhibition was part of Montreal's 350th Anniversary Celebrations. This ISBN distributed by MIT Press, Massachusetts. 93 pages with B&W and colour plates. Slight soiling to white card covers. INSCRIBED by Phylis Lambert to Bill Toye.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montreal
• Publisher: Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262620863
• ISBN 13: 9780262620864
• Binding: Card Covers
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Canadian History

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Synopsis

This study focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal's urban form: its fortifications; the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings.

Based on a fifteen-year study of manuscript sources from Europe and North America, Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal's urban form: its fortifications; the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings. The first section of the book, Fortifications, traces Montréal's development as one of the most important military and commercial centers of the French colonial network arching from Louisbourg to the Great Lakes and down the Lake Champlain and Ohio corridors. It also discusses the related development of the town's fortifications. Town, the second section, examines how Montréal's diversifying economic activities - many connected with the building, maintenance, and supply of inland military posts -influenced land use and building within the walls. The last section, Buildings, focuses on the urban house, Montréal's principal building type in the eighteenth-century, examining it in its material and social environments: morphology of town and fortifications, distribution of institutional buildings, and formative legal traditions—metropolitan French above all, but later also British and American. The demolition of the walls (1801-1817) that had defined the town blurred town and suburb and augured a new urban form.

About the Author

Phyllis Lambert is founder and director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.