A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929
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A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929
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| Abstract |
The author maintains that local political and economic alliances in Montreal between 1850 and 1929 created the physical, ideological and legal structures for suburban industrial growth and the rearrangement of the urban fabric. The author concludes that Montreal’s ethnic division of labour mostly influenced the social geography of the suburbs, but the pattern was not absolute. Clusters of people of British and Irish origins lived in the northeastern suburbs, an area largely populated by French Canadians, while, by 1914, the city’s Jewish population moved out of the garment corridor of the central business district to the Mile End manufacturing district in the city’s north end.
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Journal of Historical Geography
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Vol. 27
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no. 1
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20-35
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January 2001
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en
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Also in Robert Lewis, ed. Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Philadelphia : Temple University, 2004 : p. 76-91. |
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Lewis, Robert D. “A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929.” Journal of Historical Geography Vol. 27, no. 1 (January 2001): 20–35.
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