Lost Neighborhoods - Red Light District, Faubourg à m'lasse, Goose Village

During the 1950s and 1960s, Montreal was a city in constant flux. A powerful wind of modernization swept through the city, fueled by the rhetoric of the Quiet Revolution and the feverish atmosphere of Expo 67. This surge of modernization led urban planners and political leaders—Mayor Jean Drapeau foremost among them—to rethink the city's development, not hesitating to wipe the slate clean. This resulted in a massive wave of demolitions of older housing, often justified by the need to eliminate slums deemed unsanitary.

In this book, composed of eloquent testimonies and extraordinary archival photographs from the Montreal Archives (most of them previously unpublished), the reader can immerse themselves in the lives of three vanished neighborhoods: the Red Light District, Faubourg à m'lasse, and Goose Village. Born from the exhibition of the same name and conceived by the Montreal History Centre in collaboration with the Montreal History and Heritage Laboratory at UQAM and the City of Montreal Archives, *Vanished Neighbourhoods* offers a photographic contextualization of this important chapter in the history of Quebec's metropolis.

• Hardcover
  
• 311 pages
• Language: French