Montreal, City of Water

Montreal, City of Water is full of insights.

~Annmarie Adams, Scientia Canadiensis

The past was never paradise. Michèle Dagenais’s Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city’s streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment…

~Dale Barbour, University of Toronto, Network in Canadian History and Environment