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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 Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of fields of historical investigation, this collection tells the story of the Square Mile from its origins to its decline. 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 history of the Square Mile and an investigation of its impact beyond the immediate urban environment.

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""Montreal's Square Mile makes a significant contribution to the story of Montreal, its Anglo-Protestant elite, their place in the economy of the nation state of Canada and of the wider British world, and the history of how Square Mile families constructed their private and public images. No other study in the field of Canadian history is at once so wide-ranging and comprehensive in its approach to a city's past.""--Todd Webb, Associate Professor of History, Laurentian University ""A significant contribution to its field, this collection of essays combines detailed local investigation with consideration of the broad structural forces that made, remade, and unmade Montreal's Square Mile. ""--Matthew J. Bellamy, Professor of History, Carleton University

"""Montreal's Square Mile makes a significant contribution to the story of Montreal, its Anglo-Protestant elite, their place in the economy of the nation state of Canada and of the wider British world, and the history of how Square Mile families constructed their private and public images. No other study in the field of Canadian history is at once so wide-ranging and comprehensive in its approach to a city's past.""--Todd Webb, Associate Professor of History, Laurentian University ""A significant contribution to its field, this collection of essays combines detailed local investigation with consideration of the broad structural forces that made, remade, and unmade Montreal's Square Mile. ""--Matthew J. Bellamy, Professor of History, Carleton University"

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Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Elizabeth Kirkland is a faculty member in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College. Don Nerbas is an associate professor and the St. Andrew’s Society / McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

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