Montreal in the Twentieth Century : Trajectories of a City under Strains

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Montreal in the Twentieth Century : Trajectories of a City under Strains
Abstract
Montreal began the twentieth century as Canada’s primary city, economically ruled by an Anglophone Protestant elite and politically by a Francophone Catholic elite. By the 1960s, Toronto had become the financial and industrial capital of Canada and, with the advent of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and the push for Francophone linguistic rights, Montreal declined into a regional cultural capital. The author argues that that movement nevertheless helped Montreal protect some key industries while immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and the Islamic world created new ethnic diversity. She claims that urban processes mixing separations, aggregations, and integrations allowed Montreal to grow through urban sprawl and keep solid prosperity, fair distributions, and open opportunities, limiting marginalities.
Book Title
New World Cities: Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas
Place
Chapel Hill, NC
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Date
2019
Pages
169-209
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-4696-4877-4
Citation
Dagenais, Michèle. “Montreal in the Twentieth Century : Trajectories of a City under Strains.” In New World Cities: Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas, edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melsoi, 169–209. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
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