Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal

Contents

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