Montreal's Square Mile

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don NerbasThe Square Mile: A Singular Topography (Vignettes by Julia Gersovitz)Part I: Frameworks and Perspectives1. The High Ground: Mansions, Mythology, and the MountainRoderick MacLeodFirst Development: From Apple Orchards to Building Lots2. Property and Power: Connecting the DotsSherry Olson Widening InfluencesPart II: Constructing Business Networks and Institutions3. Others of More Enterprise: Thomas Morland and the Formation of Montreal Rolling Mills, 1858–68Jean-Philip MathieuMcGill University4. "Dear Richard… send us a few buffalo tongues": Donald Smith’s Fur Trade Contacts and Personal Credit NetworksMax HamonRow and Terrace HousingPart III: Family, Gender, and Property5. Marriage, Property, and the Law in a Square Mile Family: The Case of Annie Stevenson Anderson vs David Morrice, 1884–85Peter Gossage and Lisa MooreHugh Allan and Ravenscrag6. Searching for Intimacies beyond the Notman Photographs: The Case of Amy Redpath RoddickElizabeth Kirkland and Mary Anne PoutanenThe Creation of Mount Royal Park7. Gender and Social Relations in the City above the HillRobert C.H. Sweeny Houses of WorshipPart IV: Professional and Business Worlds in Transformation8. Max Aitken in Montreal: Financial Innovation and CreativeGregory P. MarchildonDestruction in the Laurier BoomThe Stanley Street Presbyterian Church9. "Glad of your help": Scottish Architects in Montreal, 1860–1940Annmarie AdamsThe Art Association, Phillips Square10. The Changing of the Guard: Bartlett McLennan, Roy Wolvin, and the Leveraged Buyout of the Montreal Transportation Company, 1903–21M. Stephen Salmon Architects UnitePart V: Crisis and Decline-11. Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers’ First World War LettersNicolas KennyA Consistent Material Palette12. The Death of the Golden Square Mile? Understanding the Transformation of an Urban District, 1945–85Harold Bérubé1920s: Beginning of the EndAfterwordBrian J. YoungIndex