Planning and Building the Corporate Suburb of Mount Royal, 1910-1925

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Planning and Building the Corporate Suburb of Mount Royal, 1910-1925
Abstract
An examination of the process of city building in the Town of Mount Royal during the town’s formative years. The Canadian Northern Railway built the Town of Mount Royal as a corporate suburb that was planned, designed and developed as a real estate venture to help offset the costs of building a railway tunnel into the centre of Montreal. The author points out how the idea of the town emerged as a speculative residential scheme at the height of the pre-First World War land boom; how the City Beautiful ideals of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and the Garden Suburb principles of Henry Vivian were introduced to Montreal during their visits to the city in 1910; and how, one year later, their ideas and other planning models converged and were incorporated to form the unique design for the Town of Mount Royal’s urban plan by Frederick Todd, a protégé of Olmsted.
Publication
Planning Perspectives
Volume
Vol. 11
Issue
no. 3
Pages
259-301
Date
July 1996
Language
en
Citation
McCann, L. D. “Planning and Building the Corporate Suburb of Mount Royal, 1910-1925.” Planning Perspectives Vol. 11, no. 3 (July 1996): 259–301.
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