MacLeod (Protestant education research, McGill U.) and Poutanen (history, Concordia U.) trace the fortunes of the Quebec Protestant school system from its beginning to when the provincial government abolished confessional school boards. The records they searched are kept in various obscure places across Quebec, often in environments not conducive t

Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and...