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Montreal's Square Mile
The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole
Dimitry Anastakis (Edited by), Elizabeth Kirkland (Edited by), Don Nerbas (Edited by)
9781487508050
Hardback, published 30 May 2024
464 pages, 59 colour illustrations and 77 b&w illustrations
26 x 18.4 x 3.8 cm, 1.12 kg
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.
Acknowledgments Introduction The Square Mile: A Singular Topography Part I: Frameworks and Perspectives 1. The High Ground: Mansions, Mythology, and the Mountain First Development: From Apple Orchards to Building Lots 2. Property and Power: Connecting the Dots 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 McGill University 4. "Dear Richard… send us a few buffalo tongues": Donald Smith’s Fur Trade Contacts and Personal Credit Networks 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 Hugh Allan and Ravenscrag 6. Searching for Intimacies beyond the Notman Photographs: The Case of Amy Redpath Roddick The Creation of Mount Royal Park 7. Gender and Social Relations in the City above the Hill Part IV: Professional and Business Worlds in Transformation 8. Max Aitken in Montreal: Financial Innovation and Creative Destruction in the Laurier Boom The Stanley Street Presbyterian Church 9. "Glad of your help": Scottish Architects in Montreal, 1860–1940 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 Part V: Crisis and Decline- 11. Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers’ First World War Letters A Consistent Material Palette 12. The Death of the Golden Square Mile? Understanding the Transformation of an Urban District, 1945–85 1920s: Beginning of the End Afterword Index
Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don Nerbas
(Vignettes by Julia Gersovitz)
Roderick MacLeod
Sherry Olson
Jean-Philip Mathieu
Max Hamon
Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore
Elizabeth Kirkland and Mary Anne Poutanen
Robert C.H. Sweeny
Houses of Worship
Gregory P. Marchildon
Annmarie Adams
M. Stephen Salmon
Architects Unite
Nicolas Kenny
Harold Bérubé
Brian J. Young