The third volume of William H. Atherton’s history of Montreal is devoted to biography, presenting individual sketches of the merchants, politicians, clergy, professionals, and civic leaders who shaped the city from its founding to the early twentieth century. Together these portraits provide a human-scale history of how Montreal grew from a French colonial settlement into a great metropolitan centre.
An invaluable reference for Montreal’s genealogical and local history, this volume is freely available as an EPUB download for researchers and anyone curious about the people who made Canada’s most storied city.