Des sociétés distinctes – Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880…

Des Socits DistinctesGouverner Les Banlieues Bourgeoises De Montral, 1880-1939\nAuthor(s): Harold Brub\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780773543935, 978-0773543935\nSynopsis\nIn 2006 fifteen suburban municipalities of Montreal partially regained the autonomy they lost during the 2002 mergers. The fact that most of these were affluent suburbs did not go unnoticed. Supporters of the \""one island, one city\"" project saw the demerged municipalities as fiscal and linguistic enclaves refusing integration into the wider metropolitan community, but for merger opponents they represented the last political institutions of Quebec's anglophone community, with long-established local identities and distinct political cultures. Harold Brub studies three of these \""distinct societies\"" - Westmount, Pointe-Claire, and Town of Mount Royal - between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the Seco.