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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Beaudry (Montreal Metro), Cegep du Vieux Montreal, Centre-Sud, Cinematheque quebecoise, Cite du Havre, Cite du Multimedia, Cormier House, Delorimier Stadium, Downtown Montreal, Ecomusee du fier monde, Frontenac (Montreal Metro), Gare d'autocars de Montreal, Gay Village, Montreal, Golden Square Mile, Grande Bibliotheque, Grand seminaire de Montreal, Habitat 67, Hopital Notre-Dame, Hopital Saint-Luc, Ilot-Trafalgar-Gleneagles, Institut national de l'image et du son, Jacques Cartier Bridge, Les Foufounes Electriques, Maison Radio-Canada, Metropolis (concert hall), Montreal Chinese Hospital, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal Neurological Institute, Old Montreal, Ouimetoscope, Overdale, Montreal, Papineau (Montreal Metro), Pied-du-Courant Prison, Pont de la Concorde (Montreal), Quartier Concordia, Quartier des Spectacles, Quartier international de Montreal, Quartier Latin, Montreal, Robillard Block, Saint-Jacques Cathedral (Montreal), Saint-Sulpice Library, Sainte-Marie, Montreal, Seville Theatre, Shaughnessy Village, Shriners Hospital-Canada, Theatre Saint-Denis, Time Supper Club, Viger Square. Excerpt: The Golden Square Mile (French: Le Mille Carre Dore) or more simply the "Square Mile" was the nostalgic name given to a small neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Canada. Montrealers began to refer to it as the "Square Mile" from the 1930s, but the addition of 'Golden' was a comparatively modern twist added from the 1950s by Montreal's real estate brokers. From the 1790s, the anglophone business leaders of Montreal, who included and succeeded the men of the Beaver Club, started to look beyond Old Montreal for spacious sites on which to build their homes. They turned their eyes to the farmland on the slopes of Mount Royal north of Sherbrooke Street - then nothing more than a quiet country lane. The houses they built there came to represent a period of prosperity when Canada was at its economic peak and Montreal was its unrivalled cultural and financial capital. The controllers of the overwhelming majority of Canadian rail, shipping, timber, mining, fur and banking consisted of a small group of about fifty men who called the Square Mile 'home'. An often-cited statistic is that from about 1870 to 1900, 70% of all wealth in Canada was firmly in the hands of this small group. By 1900, the Bank of Montreal's assets and transactions were equal to any of its counterparts on the New York Stock Exchange, and those assets were twice that of the Bank's nearest Canadian competitor. The Square Mile was a neighbourhood of an opulence and architectural audacity until then unknown in the Dominion of Canada, and never seen since. But, by 1930, following the Great Depression, and with the dawn of the automobile and a demand for more heat-efficient houses, the younger generations of the families that had built these homes largely decamped for Westmount. During the Quiet Revolution, the businesses created in Montreal on whose fortunes the Square Mile had been built uprooted to Toronto and
