Respectable burial
Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery
by Brian J. Young
"Respectable Burial is a social history of death, burial, and Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery. A place of great beauty, the Mount Royal Cemetery was an inspiration for Frederick Law Olmstead's adjacent Mount Royal Park and played a part in the development of the city of Montreal. Brian Young shows how the history of the Mount Royal Cemetery mirrors the evolving social makeup, changing mores, and tragic events of what was long Canada's largest city. He examines the changes in the cemetery's landscaping, architecture, and use and shows how, in its evolution from a rural burying ground founded by Montreal's Protestant elite to an urban cemetery, Mount Royal Cemetery has introduced Montreal to new customs and sensibilities from Jewish, Chinese, Greek Orthodox, Buddhist, and other communities."--Jacket.
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Burial, Cimetière Mont-Royal (Montréal, Québec), Death, Histoire, History, Moeurs et coutumes, Mort, Mount Royal Cemetery (Montréal, Québec), Protestants, Social life and customs, Sépulture, Mount Royal Cemetery (Montréal, Quebec), Montreal (quebec), history, Quebec (province), social life and customs, Canada, history, Protestants, canada, Cemeteries, Sepulchral monumentsPlaces
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Une mort très digne: l'histoire du Cimetière Mont-Royal
2003, McGill-Queen's University Press
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0773525998 9780773525993
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Respectable burial: Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery
2003, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
0773525297 9780773525290
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index.
Issued also in French under title: Une mort très digne : l'histoire du cimetière Mont-Royal.
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