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Montreal

Author : Dany Fougères
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773552693
Total Pages : 1505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Montreal by : Dany Fougères

Download or read book Montreal written by Dany Fougères and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and environmental history to show that while certain distinctive features remain unchanged – Mount Royal, the Lachine Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River – human intervention and urban evolution mean that over time Montrealers have had drastically different experiences and historical understandings. Significant issues such as religion, government, social conditions, the economy, labour, transportation, culture and entertainment, and scientific and technological innovation are treated thematically in innovative and diverse chapters to illuminate how people's lives changed along with the transformation of Montreal. This history of a city in motion presents an entire picture of the changes that have marked the region as it spread from the old city of Ville-Marie into parishes, autonomous towns, boroughs, and suburbs on and off the island. The first volume encompasses the city up to 1930, vividly depicting the lives of First Nations prior to the arrival of Europeans, colonization by the French, and the beginning of British Rule. The crucial roles of waterways, portaging, paths, and trails as the primary means of travelling and trade are first examined before delving into the construction of canals, railways, and the first major roads. Nineteenth-century industrialization created a period of near-total change in Montreal as it became Canada's leading city and witnessed staggering population growth from less than 20,000 people in 1800 to over one million by 1930. The second volume treats the history of Montreal since 1930, the year that the Jacques Cartier Bridge was opened and allowed for the outward expansion of a region, which before had been confined to the island. From the Great Depression and Montreal's role as a munitions manufacturing centre during the Second World War to major cultural events like Expo 67, the twentieth century saw Montreal grow into one of the continent's largest cities, requiring stringent management of infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation. This volume also extensively studies the kinds of political debate with which the region and country still grapple regarding language, nationalism, federalism, and self-determination. Contributors include Philippe Apparicio (INRS), Guy Bellavance (INRS), Laurence Bherer (University of Montreal), Stéphane Castonguay (UQTR), the late Jean-Pierre Collin (INRS), Magda Fahrni (UQAM), the late Jean-Marie Fecteau (UQAM), Dany Fougères (UQAM), Robert Gagnon (UQAM), Danielle Gauvreau (Concordia), Annick Germain (INRS), Janice Harvey (Dawson College), Annie-Claude Labrecque (independent scholar), Yvan Lamonde (McGill), Daniel Latouche (INRS), Roderick MacLeod (independent scholar), Paula Negron-Poblete (University of Montreal), Normand Perron (INRS), Martin Petitclerc (UQAM), Christian Poirier (INRS), Claire Poitras (INRS), Mario Polèse (INRS), Myriam Richard (unaffiliated), Damaris Rose (INRS), Anne-Marie Séguin (INRS), Gilles Sénécal (INRS), Valérie Shaffer (independent scholar), Richard Shearmur (McGill), Sylvie Taschereau (UQTR), Michel Trépanier (INRS), Laurent Turcot (UQTR), Nathalie Vachon (INRS), and Roland Viau (University of Montreal).

City Unique

Author : William Weintraub
Publisher : Robin Brass Studio
ISBN 13 : 9781896941424
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book City Unique written by William Weintraub and published by Robin Brass Studio. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montreal in the 1940s and '50s was Canada's largest, richest, most vibrant and colourful city. It was, at the end of those prosperous decades, "bursting at the seams" and still growing. William Weintraub, writing with insight and affection, brings the Montreal of his youth vividly, entertainingly and wittily to life. The Montreal he describes so well was a city with two communities, English and French, who lived separate lives. They met along the dividing line that was "the Main" -- St Lawrence Boulevard and the nearby streets, where gambling joints, bordellos and night clubs prospered, and where striptease artiste Lili St. Cyr became the toast of the town and gangsters raked in profits while the police looked the other way. It was the Montreal of the charismatic Mayor Camilien Houde within the repressive Quebec of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Weintraub also looks at what he calls the Third Solitude, Montreal's Jewish community, which brought not just smoked meat and delicatessens to the vibrant area around the Main but a lively community that has played a major part in shaping the city and from which sprang such writers as Mordecai Richler and Irving Layton. William Weintraub looks at all aspects of life in Montreal in what Mordecai Richler called "an engaging, evocative book about Montreal's prime-time".

The Living Past of Montreal

Author : Eric McLean
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509818
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Living Past of Montreal by : Eric McLean

Download or read book The Living Past of Montreal written by Eric McLean and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living Past of Montreal is a history of the city and its community, brought to life by fifty-seven specially commissioned charcoal and ink drawings of Old Montreal by R.D. Wilson. Beginning with the establishment of the first permanent settlement in 1

Last Night in Montreal

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1932961682
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Last Night in Montreal written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets. "Last Night in Montreal" is a story of love, amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession.

Living in Montreal

Author : Société du centre des conférences internationales de Montréal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782894170618
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Living in Montreal by : Société du centre des conférences internationales de Montréal

Download or read book Living in Montreal written by Société du centre des conférences internationales de Montréal and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dishwasher

Author : Stéphane Larue
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771962704
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Dishwasher written by Stéphane Larue and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS • A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK • A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 • As heard on CBC's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam. Thrust on his first night into a roiling cast of characters all moving with the whirlwind speed of the evening rush, it’s not long before he finds himself in over his head once again. A vivid, magnificent debut, with a soundtrack by Iron Maiden, The Dishwasher plunges us into a world in which everyone depends on each other—for better and for worse.

The Last Canadian

Author : Henry Hook
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780671787431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The Last Canadian written by Henry Hook and published by Markham, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh collection of cryptic crosswords, filled with all the irreverent wordplay--anagrams, reversals, homophones, charades, double definitions, and palindromes--for which Henry Hook is known.

Fauna

Author : Christiane Vadnais
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770566554
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Fauna written by Christiane Vadnais and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own. Fauna, Christiane Vadnais’s first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada.

Mountain City Girls

Author : Anna McGarrigle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0345814029
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Mountain City Girls written by Anna McGarrigle and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive family memoir from world well-known singers Anna and Jane McGarrigle.

Nick

Author : Nick Auf der Maur
Publisher : Esplanade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550651140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Nick written by Nick Auf der Maur and published by Esplanade Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick was a cherished friend. An original. And the columns collected here are as near as we will ever get to a self-portrait of an endearing, if somewhat exasperating, man, blessed with all the right instincts and prejudices. - Mordecai Richler Among Nick's friends who contributed anecdotes to NICK: A MONTREAL LIFE are Warren Allmand, Benoit Aubin, Hubert Bauch, Conrad Black, Margaret Davidson, Josh Freed, Allan Fotheringham, Leon Harris, Oliver Irwin, John Lynch-Staunton, Margo MacGillivray, Brian McKenna, Robin McKenna, Terry Mosher, Brian Mulroney, Nathalie Petrowski, Mark Phillips, Stephen Phizicky, Jacob Richler, Juan Rodriguez, Mark Starowicz, Brian Stewart, Dr. Roger Tabah, Lisa Van Dusen, and Anthony Wilson-Smith. Nick Auf der Maur was in journalism and politics. He thought there was honour in both. He also thought both should be fun. He was primarily a newspaper columnist, not a crusader, but a storyteller in love with his city, Montreal. When he wrote about other cities, he always used Montreal as his point of reference. When he became ill with cancer over Christmas of 1996, he decided to share his news with his Montreal Gazette readers. Some of his best work was done in the last year of his life. He faced illness with courage and good humour, and he touched a deeply responsive chord in his readers. (from the Preface by L. Ian MacDonald) All net proceeds from the book, including a portion of many booksellers' markups, will be contributed to the Nick Fund.

Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773538127
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil written by Rebecca Margolis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Montreal's Yiddish community ensured its lasting cultural importance and influence."--WorldCat.

Montréal Chic

Author : Katrina Sark
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1783206187
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Montréal Chic written by Katrina Sark and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montréal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and artists flock from all over to be a part of Montréal’s hip fashion community. MontréalChic is the first book to document this scene and how it connects with the city’s design, film, music and cultural history. Scholars Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud are intimately acquainted with Montréal and use their firsthand knowledge of the city’s fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, along the way uncovering many untold stories of Montréal’s fashion scene.

Evil Dead

Author : George Reinblatt
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573651396
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Evil Dead written by George Reinblatt and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Sam Raimi¿s 80s cult classic films, EVIL DEAD tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, ¿camp¿ takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like ¿All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons,¿ ¿Look Who¿s Evil Now¿ and ¿Do the Necronomicon.¿

Montreal Main

Author : Thomas Waugh
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459608372
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Montreal Main written by Thomas Waugh and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montreal Main, one of three QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood ''the Main' and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and a great queer film; a fascinating cinema vrit take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s, about a twenty something photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and his growing obsession with Johnny, the young son of acquaintances, a relationship that is doomed from the start. Disarming in its matter-of-fact treatment of potentially sensational themes, Montreal Main is a quiet yet powerful look at human relations among the post-flower power generation. The book, a collaboration between Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison, details the nuanced history of this peculiar film, which was released on DVD for the first time in 2009. It also considers the politics and aesthetics of the trope of intergenerational love that director Vitale and collaborators Allan Moyle and Stephen Lack so brazenly probed, in a way that would make the film virtually impossible to produce in present day.

The Lachine Canal

Author : Yvon Desloges
Publisher : Les éditions du Septentrion
ISBN 13 : 9782894483312
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Lachine Canal written by Yvon Desloges and published by Les éditions du Septentrion. This book was released on 2002-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for history buffs interested in inland navigation and industrial history, this volume reveals how the construction of the Lachine Canal starting in 1821 played a pivotal role in the industrial development of Montreal and all of Canada. Truly revolutionary, the canal ultimately allowed ships to bypass the previously insurmountable rapids and reach the Great Lakes, and its many consequences and benefits are described in detail.

Art Life

Author : Catherine Ocelot
Publisher : Bdang
ISBN 13 : 9781772620467
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Art Life written by Catherine Ocelot and published by Bdang. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Best Graphic Novel in Quebec 2018! Catherine Ocelot wonders about her place as an artist, digging into the layers of what it means to live this Art Life. In her search for answers, she talks with seven artists from different disciplines who express their doubts, their struggles, their ambitions and their sometimes-wise and sometimes-funny observations. The author stages these encounters with finesse and wit, and echoes them with scenes from her own life. Art Life is a tragicomic tale tinged with fantasy that explores the impact of others on oneself, led by an artist who slowly comes to understand herself.

Saving the City

Author : Daniel Sanger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550655803
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Saving the City written by Daniel Sanger and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory. When it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montréal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall--after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec. Projet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, Saving the City chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it's headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal's administration for almost a decade, Daniel Sanger's book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present. A highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, Saving the City will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal's borough system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car use? What is the optimum width for a sidewalk? The best kind of street tree? And why free parking is a terrible idea.