WEALTH AND POVERTY IN MONTREAL
![[ Canada Sugar Refinery Co., employees ]](../../images/site/345873_2.jpg "[ Canada Sugar Refinery Co., employees ]")
Unknown, Redpath Sugar Museum, The employees of the Redpath family’s sugar refinery posed for this photograph in 1904
When Ada and Clifford Redpath died in 1901, Montreal was a complex urban centre. It was a city of contrasts, contradictions, and conflicts generated by one hundred years of industrialization and urbanization. The new century heralded an optimism founded on urban development, industrial growth, and technological advances such as the electrification of the city and its tramway.
Built on the slopes of Mount Royal, the Square Mile seemed a self-contained community cocooned by its homes, gardens, and institutions, and detached from the gritty realities faced by most Montrealers. It lay high above the smoke, pandemonium, and effluvium of the factories that the Anglo-Protestant bourgeoisie owned and far away from the industrial workers who laboured in them.
Books
- Herbert Brown Ames, The City Below the Hill, 1897
- A. L. A. Himmelwright, The Pistol and Revolver, 1908
- Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich , 1914
- Amy Redpath Roddick, The Iroquois Enjoy a Perfect Day, A Chance Meeting, and other Poems, 1939
- Hugh McLennan, Two Solitudes, 2003
Multimedia
- Charles Edward Goad, Atlas of the City of Montreal, plates 17 and 19, 1890, 1890
- Herbert Ames, City Below the Hill (map D), 1897
- A.R. Pinsoneault, Atlas of the Island and City of Montreal and Ile Bizard, plates 19 and 24, 1907, 1907
- Chas. E. Goad Co., Atlas of the City of Montreal and vicinity, plates 17 and 19, 1912, 1912
Newspaper or Magazine Articles
Photographs, Paintings or Drawings
- Wm. Notman & Son, Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896 [towards mountain], 1896
- Wm. Notman & Son, Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896 [towards factory], 1896
- Herbert Ames, City Below the Hill (title page), 1897
- Herbert Ames, The City Below the Hill (page 3), 1897
- Herbert Ames, City Below the Hill (page 4), 1897
- Unknown, Canada Sugar Refinery Co., engraving, 1904