Remembrance of Grandeur: The Anglo-Protestant Elite of Montreal

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Author/collaborator
Title
Remembrance of Grandeur: The Anglo-Protestant Elite of Montreal
Abstract
A social history of the decline of Montreal's wealthy English-speaking families who, during their apex at the turn of the twentieth century, controlled up to two-thirds of the wealth of Canada. The author estimates that there were between fifty and one-hundred and fifty families among this predominately Scottish elite group, most of whom lived in Montreal's Golden Square Mile district. The author interviewed the descendants of these families and analyzes why they began to lose their wealth and national economic and political power following the 1920s.
Place
Montreal
Publisher
Libre Exoression
Date
1990
# of Pages
311p.
Language
en
ISBN
2-89111-439-6
Notes

Available in French as: Grandeur et déclin. L'élite anglo-protestante de Montréal 1900-1950. Montréal: Libre Expression, 1990. 332p.

Citation
Westley, Margaret W. Remembrance of Grandeur: The Anglo-Protestant Elite of Montreal. Montreal: Libre Exoression, 1990.
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