Dan Horner - Taking to the Streets: Crowds, Politics, and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

TAKING to the STREETS

TUDES DHISTOIRE DU QUBEC / STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF QUEBEC
Magda Fahrni et/and Jarrett Rudy
Directeurs de la collection / Series Editors

1 Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal

Louise Dechne

2 Crofters and Habitants
Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 18481881

J.I. Little

3 The Christie Seigneuries
Estate Management and Settlement in the Upper Richelieu Valley, 17601859

Francoise Noel

4 La Prairie en Nouvelle-France, 16471760

Louis Lavalle

5 The Politics of Codification
The Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866

Brian Young

6 Arvida au Saguenay
Naissance dune ville industrielle

Jos E. Igartua

7 State and Society in Transition
The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 18381852

J.I. Little

8 Vingt ans aprs Habitants et marchands, Lectures de lhistoire des XVIIe et
XVIIIe sicles canadiens Habitants et marchands, Twenty Years Later Reading the History of Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Canada

Edited by Sylvie Dpatie, Catherine Desbarats, Danielle Gauvreau, Mario Lalancette, Thomas Wien

9 Les rcoltes des forts publiques au Qubec et en Ontario, 18401900

Guy Gaudreau

10 Carabins ou activistes? Lidalisme et la radicalisation de la pense tudiante lUniversit de Montral au temps du duplessisme

Nicole Neatby

11 Families in Transition
Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe

Peter Gossage

12 The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec

Colin M. Coates

13 Amassing Power
J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 18971927

David Massell

14 Making Public Pasts
The Contested Terrain of Montreals Public Memories, 18911930

Alan Gordon

15 A Meeting of the People
School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 18011998

Roderick MacLeod and Mary Anne Poutanen

16 A History for the Future
Rewriting Memory and Identity in Quebec

Jocelyn Ltourneau

17 Ctait du spectacle !
Lhistoire des artistes transsexuelles Montral, 19551985

Viviane Namaste

18 The Freedom to Smoke
Tobacco Consumption and Identity

Jarrett Rudy

19 Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France
Qubec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe sicle

Josette Brun

20 Fous, prodigues, et ivrognes
Familles et dviance Montral au XIXe sicle

Thierry Nootens

21 Done with Slavery
The Black Fact in Montreal, 17601840

Frank Mackey

22 Le concept de libert au Canada lpoque des Rvolutions atlantiques, 17761838

Michel Ducharme

23 The Empire Within
Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

Sean Mills

24 Quebec Hydropolitics
The Peribonka Concessions of the Second World War

David Massell

25 Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec
The Taschereaus and McCords

Brian Young

26 Des socits distinctes
Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montral, 18801939

Harold Brub

27 Nourrir la machine humaine
Nutrition et alimentation au Qubec, 18601945

Caroline Durand

28 Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 18191849

Robert C.H. Sweeny

29 Techniciens de lorganisation sociale La rorganisation de lassistance catholique prive Montral (19301974)

Amlie Bourbeau

30 Beyond Brutal Passions
Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Mary Anne Poutanen

31 A Place in the Sun
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec

Sean Mills

32 The Paupers Freedom
Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

Jean-Marie Fecteau

33 Au risque de la conversion
Lexprience qubcoise de la mission au XXe sicle (19451980)

Catherine Foisy

34 From Old Quebec to La Belle Province Tourism Promotion, Travel Writing, and National Identities, 19201967

Nicole Neatby

35 Genre, patrimoine et droit civil Les femmes maries de la bourgeoisie qubcoise en procs, 1900-1930

Thierry Nootens

36 Lglise et la politique qubcoise, de Taschereau Duplessis Alexandre Dumas

37 Grossires indcences
Pratiques et identits homosexuelles Montral, 1880-1929

Dominic Dagenais

38 Taking to the Streets
Crowds, Politics, and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Dan Horner

DAN HORNER

TAKING to the STREETS

Crowds, Politics, and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

McGill-Queens University Press
Montreal & Kingston London Chicago

McGill-Queens University Press 2020

ISBN 978-0-2280-0126-3 (cloth)

ISBN 978-0-2280-0127-0 (paper)

ISBN 978-0-2280-0263-5 (ePDF)

ISBN 978-0-2280-0264-2 (ePUB)

Legal deposit second quarter 2020

Bibliothque nationale du Qubec

Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free

This publication has been supported by a Faculty of Arts Special Projects Grant from Ryerson University.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Taking to the streets : crowds, politics, and the urban experience in mid-ninteenth-century Montreal / Dan Horner.

Names: Horner, Daniel, 1979- author.

Series: Studies on the history of Quebec ; 38.

Description: Series statement: tudes dhistoire du Qubec / Studies on the history of Quebec; 38 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200198823 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200198904 | ISBN 9780228001270 (softcover) | ISBN 9780228001263 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780228002635 (PDF) | ISBN 9780228002642 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: DemonstrationsQubec (Province)MontralHistory19th century. | LCSH: Montral (Qubec)History19th century. | LCSH: Montral (Qubec)Politics and government19th century. | LCSH: Sociology, UrbanQubec (Province)MontralHistory19th century. | LCSH: Collective behavior.

Classification: LCC FC2947.4 .H67 2020 | DDC 971.4/2802dc23

Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Crowd as an Historical Actor and a Lived Experience

CHAPTER 1
A City on the Brink: Making Sense of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

CHAPTER 2
The Raucous Street Meets the Reformers Gaze

CHAPTER 3
Custom, Tumult, and Modernity on the Urban Fringe: The Lachine Canal Strike of 1843

CHAPTER 4
A voluntary power: Making Liberal Politics on the Streets of Montreal

CHAPTER 5
Cacophony and Awe: Popular Piety and Public Order in an Age of Sectarian Conflict

CHAPTER 6
A picture of awful and thrilling beauty: Rethinking Popular Politics and Authority in the Midst of the Rebellion Losses Crisis of 1849

CONCLUSION
On the Streets and Looking Forward as a Turbulent Decade Draws to a Close