Main entry:

Young, Brian J., 1940-

Title & Author:

Respectable burial : Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery / Brian Young ; colour photographs by Geoffrey James.

Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.

Description:

lv, 226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 x 29 cm

Notes:
Issued also in French under title: Une mort très digne : l'histoire du cimetière Mont-Royal.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
The Cemetery in Colour / Geoffrey James -- Abandoning Urban Burial Grounds -- Establishing a "Rural" Cemetery -- The Victorian Cemetery -- Contested Decorum: The Cemetery as Public Space -- Running a Business, 1852-1924 -- The Lawn Plan versus "Widowed Stone" -- Cremation, 1902-1947 -- Military Graves -- Continuity and Entitlement -- New Respectability: Business and History at the Cemetery Today.

Summary:

"Respectable Burial is a social history of death, burial, and Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery. A place of great beauty, the Mount Royal Cemetery was an inspiration for Frederick Law Olmstead's adjacent Mount Royal Park and played a part in the development of the city of Montreal. Brian Young shows how the history of the Mount Royal Cemetery mirrors the evolving social makeup, changing mores, and tragic events of what was long Canada's largest city. He examines the changes in the cemetery's landscaping, architecture, and use and shows how, in its evolution from a rural burying ground founded by Montreal's Protestant elite to an urban cemetery, Mount Royal Cemetery has introduced Montreal to new customs and sensibilities from Jewish, Chinese, Greek Orthodox, Buddhist, and other communities."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0773525297
9780773525290

Subject:

Mount Royal Cemetery (Montréal, Québec) History.
Cimetière Mont-Royal (Montréal, Québec) Histoire.
Mount Royal Cemetery (Montréal, Québec)
Protestants Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Burial Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Death Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Cemeteries Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Protestants Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Sépulture Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Mort Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Cimetières Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Cemeteries
Burial
Death
Manners and customs
Protestants
Montréal (Québec) Social life and customs.
Montréal (Québec) History.
Montréal (Québec) Moeurs et coutumes.
Montréal (Québec) Histoire.
Québec Montréal

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

James, Geoffrey, 1942-

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 227718
Call No.: FC2947.61 Y6 2003
Status: External loan