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Montreal, City of Spires

Church Architecture During the British Colonial Period 1760-1860

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Résumé

Of the fifty religious buildings discussed in this book, only a precious few remain standing despite the fact that Montreal boasts one of the largest and most eclectic groupings of Georgian and Victorian structures of any city in North America.

Following the British conquest of New France in 1759 a remarkable series of transformations took place in the small, Catholic trading town of Montreal. Given the diversity of settlers forced to live side by side, the new church buildings that were to rise became strategic public spaces, meeting places as well as power bases. It was no wonder that by the time Mark Twain toured Canada’s first metropolis in the 1880s, he found that one could not throw a brick in the place without breaking a church window.

By addressing the social, religious and architectural issues surrounding these colonial-era structures, it will become apparent that Montreal was at once a shining jewel in England’s imperial crown, a chief outpost of Catholicism in the New World, as well as the British North American headquarters for more than a dozen independent congregations.

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2012, 272 pages, G3422, ISBN 978-2-7605-3422-3

Ce qu’on en dit...

« ...this beautiful, thoughtful, coffee-table book examines the social and cultural history behind church architecture in Montreal during the British colonial period between 1760 and 1860. »

Pegy Curran, The Gazette, 16 octobre 2012.

Encore plus sur le blogue de Peggy Curran : http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/10/16/montreal-a-city-of-spires-and-diversity/?postpost=v2

Entrevue à CTV : http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=786829&playlistId=1.1000988&binId=1.815249

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