Cover13; -- Contents13; -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface: Two Founding Peoples -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Exploring the Boundaries of Public Memory -- 2 Crossroads: Montr233;al to 1891 -- 3 Grounds for Disagreement: Social and Political Contexts of Montr233;al, 1891 1930 -- 4 Fissured Heritage Elites -- 5 British Citizenship: Material Progress, Class Harmony, and Imperial Greatness -- 6 Devotion and Rebellion: The Contest for French Canadas Public Memory -- 7 Contested Terrain, Contiguous Territory -- 8 Public Memory on the Move: Festivals and Parades -- 9 The Angel of History -- Postscript: The Reconquest of Montr233;als Memory -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index
Summary
Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In Making Public Pasts Alan Gordon argues that the contest was fundamentally ideological, a competition between major social groups to shape perceptions of history and frame the historical consciousness of individuals