Montreal : A Brief History

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Title 2
• Copyright 3
• Contents 6
• Preface 4
• 1 Early Montreal 1642-1817 9
• Discovery and the French Fact 9
• Ville Marie 10
• The Fur-trading Community 11
• The Era of Revolution, 1760-1817 12
• The Cession 13
• The American Revolution 16
• The French Revolution 16
• The New Economy 17
• 2 Hopes Raised by Steam 19
• The Grand Trunk Era 22
• The Port 24
• 3 Nineteenth-Century Montreal 26
• The Immigrant Tide 26
• Organization 27
• Tensions 29
• "Dismemberment" of the Parish of Montreal 30
• 4 Municipal Government, Part I: The Art of the Possible 32
• A Lengthy Look Behind 32
• The Early Elective Regime 34
• 5 On The Eve of Confederation 37
• The Fact—Material Improvement 37
• The Prevailing Mood 39
• A Neighbour's War 40
• 6 Montreal and Confederation 44
• Montreal's Fathers of Confederation 46
• The Common Man and Confederation 48
• The Critics of Confederation 50
• An Opportunity Missed 51
• The Debit Side of the Ledger 52
• 7 Across The Continent and Beyond 54
• The Quebec Montreal Ottawa and Occidental 55
• The Transcontinental—Failure 56
• Frustration 57
• The Transcontinental—Success 59
• The Canadian Pacific in Montreal 62
• Montreal and the West 65
• The New North-West Passage 65
• 8 O God! O Montreal! 67
• Universities 67
• Schools 70
• Adult Education 73
• The Newspaper Press 75
• Victorian Entertainment 78
• 9 The Post-Confederation City 81
• The Structure of the City 81
• The Temper of the Times: Commercial, Military, and Sporting 85
• A Period of Civic Strife 89
• 10 "THE CITY BELOW THE HILL" 93
• Work, Wages, and Living 93
• The French and English Worlds 100
• The Beginning of Multiracialism 102
• 11 Municipal Government, Part II: La Maree Americaine 104
• Franchises and Annexations 106
• Raymonde Prefontaine 109
• 12 Transport, Communications, Power 111
• The Lachine Rail-Road 111
• Les petits chars 112
• Electric Traction 113
• The New Suburbs 113
• The Automobile 114
• Communications 115
• Lighting 116
• Power 117
• 13 The Era of Consolidation 120
• Early Mergers 120
• Max Aitken in Montreal 123
• The Captive Press 125
• 14 The Early Twentieth Century 130
• Montreal Air Meets, 1906 and 1910 130
• Population Growth 131
• The Movement Uptown 133
• Expansion North and East 133
• Major Annexations: Ste-Cunegonde; St-Henri; Maisonneuve 135
• Westmount; Outremont 135
• Verdun, Lachine; Montreal West; St-Laurent 136
• The Town of Mount Royal 137
• The Emergence of a New Class 138
• The New Broom at Quebec 139
• Le regime des honnetes gens 142
• 15 1914 and Afterwards 144
• Mederic Martin 145
• Election Background 146
• The Municipal Elections of 1914 147
• Aftermath 151
• The First World War 152
• 16 Prosperity—Depression—War 159
• Prosperity 159
• The St. Lawrence Seaway—The First Phase 165
• The Sixtieth Anniversary of Confederation 166
• The End of the Martin Era 168
• Who's Houde? 170
• Depression—the 1930's 172
• Prelude to War 176
• The Second World War 179
• 17 The Great Transformation 182
• The New Industrialism 182
• The Modern Montrealers 185
• The Church's Role 189
• Montreal sous le regime de la Ogre 191
• The First Drapeau Administration 194
• The New Landmarks 196
• Decentralization and Urban Transportation 198
• Le Parti civique 199
• Expo 67 201
• Notes to Chapters 206
• A Note Regarding Sources 216
• Index 218