Table of Contents
Lists of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Stéphane Castonguay Michèle Dagenais 1
Representations: Urban Cultures
1 The Colonial Landscapes of the Early Town Colin M. Coates 19
2 The Herons Are Still Here: History and Place Victoria Dickenson 37
3 Corporeal Understandings of the Industrializing Environment Nicolas Kenny 51
4 Influenza and the Urban Environment, 1918-1920 Magda Fahrni 68
Infrastructures: Socio-Technical Systems
5 Surface Water in the Early Nineteenth Century Dany Fougères 85
6 At the Source of a New Urbanity: Water Networks and Power Relations in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Michèle Dagenais 101
7 Hidden Water in the Landscape: The Covered Reservoirs of Mount Royal Susan M. Ross 115
8 The Political Ecology of Floods in the Late Nineteenth Century Christopher G. Boone 133
9 City Streets as Environmental Grid: The Challenge of Private Uses and Municipal Stewardship Sherry Olson 148
10 A City on the Move: The Surprising Consequences of Highways Claire Poitras 168
Hinterlands: City-Country Relationships
11 Agriculture on the Montreal Plain, 1850-1950: Urban Market and Metropolitan Hinterland Stéphane Castonguay 187
12 Horses, Hedges, and Hegemony: Foxhunting in the Countryside Darcy Ingram 211
13 When Bridges Become Barriers: Montreal and Kahnawake Mohawk Territory Daniel Rueck 228
14 The Destruction of the Rural Hinterland: Industrialization of Landscapes in Beauharnois County Louis-Raphaël Pelletier 245
Conclusion: The Historicity of Montreal's Environment Stéphane Castonguay Michèle Dagenais 265
Notes 271
Contributors 313
Index 317
