Main entry:

Cooper, John Irwin, 1905-

Title & Author:

Montreal : a brief history / John Irwin Cooper

Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1969.

Description:

vii, 217 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Early Montreal 1642-1817 -- 2. Hopes raised by steam -- 3. Nineteenth-century Montreal -- 4. Municipal Government: pt. I: The art of the possible -- 5. On the eve of confederation -- 6. Montreal and confederation -- 7. Across the continent and beyond -- 8. O God! O Montreal! -- 9. The post-confederation city -- 10. "The city below the hill" -- 11. Municipal government, pt. II: La maree Americaine -- 12. Transport, communications, power -- 13. The era of consolidation -- 14. The early twentieth century -- 15. 1914 and afterwards -- 16. Prosperity, depression, war -- 17. The great transformation.

Summary:

This lively account of Montreal emphasizes the last 150 years of its history. It is the story of Montreal's people, of its various municipal administrations, and its growth to the cosmopolitan centre it is today. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the reign of the monopolists: "In the classical life cycle, the Montrealer was born in a house made with Aitken's cement, was surfeited on McConnell's or Redpath's sugar, travelled on Forget's streetcar, paid his bills to Holt's electrical and gas company, smoked McDonald's and Davis's cigarettes, and was buried in a coffin from the casket trust." More recently the corrupt municipal regimes of the 1940's and 1950's resulted in an orgy of commercialized vice, with the highly questionable operations of bawdy houses and gambling saloons openly tolerated by the police and the city administration. The "reign of thieves" was followed by a reform administration led by Lucien Saulnier and Jean Drapeau, who later, by bringing Expo 67 to Montreal, brought Montreal to the world.

Resources:
Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0773500537
9780773500532

Subject:

Geschichte
Montréal (Québec) History.
Montréal (Québec) Histoire.
Québec Montréal
Canada, Quebec, Île-de-Montréal History.
Montréal

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 92130
Call No.: ID GDER CAN MON; ID:85-B13571
Status: Available