Respectable Burial: Montreal's Mount Royal CemeteryMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003 M05 26 - 288 páginas Respectable Burial also highlights how important a role Montreal played in Canada's history. The cemetery is the final resting place of politician Alexander Galt, poet F.R. Scott, hockey star Howie Morenz, explorer David Thompson, bank presidents, renegades, hangmen, and victims of the Titanic. This history of a model rural cemetery, an innovator in perpetual care and proprietor of the first crematorium in Canada, illustrates changing attitudes to burial and commemoration - including the relationships between Protestantism, Romanticism, and death. Young also shows how the cemetery, a site of great natural beauty that helped inspire Frederick Law Olmsted's adjacent Mount Royal Park, became a much-loved public urban space and examines how the evolution of its landscaping, architecture, and use reflect changing attitudes to the place of women, recreation, heritage, and the environment. Incorporating a rich collection of archival illustrations, walking maps, and a colour photo essay by photographer Geoffrey James, Respectable Burial will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian history, parks, and cities. |
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Chronology | xli |
Introduction | xlvi |
Abandoning Urban Burial Grounds | 2 |
Establishing a Rural Cemetery | 20 |
The Victorian Cemetery | 38 |
Cremation 19021974 | 124 |
Military Graves | 140 |
Continuity and Entitlement | 156 |
Business and History at the Cemetery Today | 174 |
Notes | 195 |
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Illustration Credits | 215 |
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The Cemetery as Public Space | 62 |
Running a Business 18521924 | 82 |
The Lawn Plan versus Widowed Stone | 104 |
Grave Location Maps | 227 |
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Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City Sherry Simon Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Les Écossais: The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada, 1763-1855 Lucille H. Campey Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |