Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montreal

Lambert, Phyllis; Stewart, Alan

ISBN 10: 0262620863 / ISBN 13: 9780262620864

Published by Mit Pr, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1992

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English text. Limited to 1/4,000 copies. VG++. Softcover, 93 pp, b&w illustrations with 6 color fold-out plates, French flaps, light edgewear, otherwise a crisp, clean and tight copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montreal
• Publisher: Mit Pr, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262620863
• ISBN 13: 9780262620864
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Limited
• Condition: Very Good ++

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Synopsis

This study focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal's urban form: its fortifications; the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings.

Based on a fifteen-year study of manuscript sources from Europe and North America, Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal's urban form: its fortifications; the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings. The first section of the book, Fortifications, traces Montréal's development as one of the most important military and commercial centers of the French colonial network arching from Louisbourg to the Great Lakes and down the Lake Champlain and Ohio corridors. It also discusses the related development of the town's fortifications. Town, the second section, examines how Montréal's diversifying economic activities - many connected with the building, maintenance, and supply of inland military posts -influenced land use and building within the walls. The last section, Buildings, focuses on the urban house, Montréal's principal building type in the eighteenth-century, examining it in its material and social environments: morphology of town and fortifications, distribution of institutional buildings, and formative legal traditions—metropolitan French above all, but later also British and American. The demolition of the walls (1801-1817) that had defined the town blurred town and suburb and augured a new urban form.

About the Author

Phyllis Lambert is founder and director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.