Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal

Edited by Bettina Bradbury & Tamara Myers
Categories: History, Canadian History, Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774811972, 328 pages, August 2005
Paperback : 9780774811989, 328 pages, January 2006
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774840606, 328 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774851749, 328 pages, October 2007
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Table of contents

1. Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury and Tamara
Myers

Part 1: Homes and Homelessness

2. Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender,
Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal /
Mary Anne Poutanen

3. Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Institute
and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98 / Darcy Ingram

4. Keeping Men Out of "Public or Semi-Public" Places: The
Montreal Day Shelter for Homeless Men, 1931-34 / Anna Shea and
Suzanne Morton

Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood

5. Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: The
Montreal McCords / Brian Young

6. Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood in
Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury

Part 3: Youth, Institutions, and Identities

7. The Ideal Education to Construct an Ideal World: The Dunham
Ladies' College and the Anglican Elite of the Montreal Diocese,
1860-1913 / Marie-Eve Harbec, translated by Yvonne Klein

8. On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women's
Anti-Delinquency Work in Interwar Montreal / Tamara Myers

9. From Tomorrow’s Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: The
Search for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-58 /
Karine Hébert, translated by Steven Watt

Part 4: Selling and Consumption

10. "Behind the Store": Montreal Shopkeeping Families
Between the Wars / Sylvie Taschereau, translated by Yvonne
Klein

11. A Ritual Transformed: Women Smokers in Montreal, 1888-1950 /
Jarrett Rudy

Index

In this illuminating history of Montreal, readers will discover the
links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet
vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression,
elite families, shopkeepers, reformers, notaries, and social workers.

Description

With its focus on sites where identities were forged and contested over
crucial decades in Montreal’s history, this collection
illuminates the cultural complexity and richness of a modernizing city.
Readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical
moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of
the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, and reformers, among
others. This fascinating study explores the intersections of state,
people, and the voluntary sector to elucidate the processes that took
people between homes and cemeteries, between families and shops, and
onto the streets.