Montreal, City of Spires : Church Architecture During the British Colonial Period 1760-1860

Clarence Epstein

Description

By situating the church architecture within the cultural dynamic of Montreal, the author closes a critical gap in our understanding of those decades of the British Colonial Period (1760-1860) when church buildings and their parishioners overtly marked the urban scene.

Sujets

• Colonisation
• Architecture
• Montréal
• Anglais
• Musique irlandaise
• HIStory
• Church
• Scottish
• French
• Québec
• American
• British Empire
• English
• Irish
• Building
• French Canadian
• Montreal
• Quebec
• América
• Francocanadiense
• Idioma inglés
• historical

Informations

• Publié par: Presses de l'Université du Québec
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9782760534230
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 37 Mo

Extrait

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Urban Heritage
Although drastically altered by an increase in mobility and An analysis of both ideas and objects is therefore included,
cultural exchange, relations between communities and their in an effort to understand the ingredients that bring life to
environment remain at the heart of modern identity con- the environment and the representations that forge the built
structions. Urban Heritage/Patrimoine urbain, an anthology landscape. Presented form from cross-disciplinary perspective,
compiled by the Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage the works seek to nourish a reinvention of heritage as
(ESG-UQAM), proposes to explore the material foundations a projection into the future of our society.
and imaginary confgurations of this environment. From In Urban Heritage/Patrimoine urbain, both young
researcharchitecture to the city, and from creation to commemoration, ers and their more experienced counterparts, from all four
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festations to understand its processes and all its fnery, learn of readers interested in history, mythic constructions or simply
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3422-Liminaires.indd 2 12-02-24 13:33MONTREAL
City of Spires
3422-Liminaires.indd 3 12-02-24 13:33Series from the Canada Research Chair
atrimoine urbain on Urban Heritage – ESG / UQAM
Urban Heritage
Habiter l’Arménie au Québec Quel avenir pour quelles églises ?
Ethnographie d'un patrimoine en diaspora What future for which churches ?
Marie-Blanche Fourcade Edited by Lucie K. Morisset, Luc Noppen
2011, ISBN 978-2-7605-2653-2, 304 pages and Thomas Coomans
2006, ISBN 2-7605-1431-5, 624 pages
La ville
Phénomène de représentation Le combat du patrimoine à Montréal (1973-2003)
Edited by Lucie K. Morisset and Marie-Ève Breton Martin Drouin
2011, ISBN 978-2-7605-2657-0, 352 pages 2005, ISBN 2-7605-1356-4, 402 pages
De la ville au patrimoine urbain Les églises du Québec
Histoires de forme et de sens Un patrimoine à réinventer
André Corboz and Lucie K. Morisset Luc Noppen and Lucie K. Morisset
2009, ISBN 978-2-7605-2479-8, 336 pages 2005, ISBN 2-7605-1355-6, 456 pages
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Membre deMONTREAL
City of Spires
Church Architecture during
the British Colonial Period
1760-1860
Clarence Epstein
Presses de l’Université du Québec
3422-Liminaires.indd 5 12-02-24 13:33Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and Library and Archives Canada cataloguing in publication
Epstein, Clarence
Montreal, City of Spires : Church Architecture during the British Colonial Period, 1760-1860
(Patrimoine urbain ; 7)
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral--University of Edinburgh), 1999 under the title:
Church architecture in Montreal during the British-Colonial period, 1760-1860.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-2-7605-3422-3
1. Church architecture – Québec (Province) – Montréal - History. 2. Architecture and society – Québec (Province) –
Montréal. 3. Group identity – Québec (Province) – Montréal. 4. Montréal (Québec) – History.
I. Title. II. Series: Patrimoine urbain ; 7.
NA5247.M6E57 2012 726.509714’28 C2012-940288-5
This volume of the Urban Heritage/Patrimoine urbain series was granted the fnancial support
of the following programs and organizations :
– The Canada Research Chairs Program, thanks to the contribution of the Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage
ESG / UQAM (Luc Noppen, chairholder, 2008-2015) ;
– The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Strategic Knowledge Clusters Program,
that subsidizes the Canadian Forum for Public Research on Heritage (Dir. Luc Noppen, Lucie K. Morisset
and Martin Drouin, 2008-2015) ;
– The Fondation de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
Les Presses de l’Université du Québec acknowledges the fnancial support of the Government of Canada
for its publishing activities through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council of the Arts.
It also thanks Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) for its fnancial support.
Layout and cover design : Starling
Cover photos : Upper left – Church of St. Pierre Apôtre, Montreal. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Centre d’archives de Québec.
Upper right – Champ de Mars, Montreal. Watercolour by Philip John Bainbrigge, 1838. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
Lower left – Notre Dame Street and the Old Notre-Dame Cathedral, Montreal, Lower Canada.
Watercolour by James Pattison Cockburn, 1829. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
Lower right – Interior View of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal. Watercolour by Thomas Seaton Scott.
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
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3422-Liminaires.indd 6 12-02-27 15:04Half French and half English—a diversity in manners and
dress as well as in creeds—institutions drawn from the
Coutume de Paris and the Parliament of Westminster—
ancient feudalities and modern privileges—traditions of
the Sulpicians and reminiscences of Lord Sydenham—
nunneries next door to Manchester
warehouses—barristers pleading in the language of France and a
customhouse decorated with the Royal Arms of England—priests
in long black dresses, and Scotch Presbyterians—cabmen
in frieze jackets fresh from Ireland and native market
carters in coloured sashes and night-caps—in short, a
complication of incongruities; the old and new world jumbled
together, and then assorted according to some odd device
in social economics. Such is Montreal.
William Chambers, Things as They Are in America.
Edinburgh, 1857, p. 53.
3422-Montage final.indd 7 12-02-27 11:533422-Montage final.indd 8 12-02-27 11:53Cont ents
Pr ef ac e by Phyllis Lambert ........................................... 13
Ackno wl edgments ................................................... 15
Abbr e viations ....................................................... 17
Introduction .......................................................... 19
P ART ONE – 1760-1830
Chapter I: Compromising British Ideals 1760-1815 .............................. 29
The Colony in Transition ................................................. 29
Provisions for New Minorities .............................................. 36
• Jewish
• Presbyterian
Modifying the English Program ............................................. 41
• Anglican
• Catholic
Chapter II: Encroachment of the United States 1805-1825 ......................... 57
Republican Resistance .................................................. 57
New England Versus England .............................................. 61
• Presbyterian
• Methodist
The American Presbyterian Bias ............................................ 69
Chapter III: French Ca