Culture, Language and the Location of High-Order Service Functions: The Case of Montreal and Toronto

Type of resource
Authors/collaborators
Title
Culture, Language and the Location of High-Order Service Functions: The Case of Montreal and Toronto
Abstract
Starting in 1960, Toronto replaced Montreal at the top of the Canadian urban hierarchy. The authors argue that long-term shifts in the geography of population and economic activity cannot account for Montreal’s fall to second place. Rather, they believe that Montreal’s natural service hinterland for high-order corporate and business functions shrunk after 1960 largely because of the rise of French as the politically-inspired dominant language of business in Quebec.
Publication
Economic Geography
Volume
Vol. 80
Issue
no. 4
Pages
329-350
Date
October 2004
Language
en
Citation
Polèse, Mario, and Richard Shearmur. “Culture, Language and the Location of High-Order Service Functions: The Case of Montreal and Toronto.” Economic Geography Vol. 80, no. 4 (October 2004): 329–350.
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