City Unique : Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and '50s (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from datrappert

The story of Montreal in the 1940s and 50s, when it was a wide open city where gambling, prostitution, and other vices flourished with the connivance of the police department. In parallel, we read about the alarming dictatorial premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis, whose iron-handed rule is almos...

from EricCostello

Amusing and engrossing look at various aspects of the City of Montreal from roughly the late 1930s to the late 1950s, touching on the various social and political fissures that rocked the city (sometimes quietly, sometimes noisily) during that time, including some of the outsized personalities th...

from EricCostello

Amusing and engrossing look at various aspects of the City of Montreal from roughly the late 1930s to the late 1950s, touching on the various social and political fissures that rocked the city (sometimes quietly, sometimes noisily) during that time, including some of the outsized personalities th...