The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Golden Square Mile (Rue Sherbrooke Ouest)
At its peak this square mile housed families who controlled an astonishing share of all of Canada's wealth — the railway, banking, and shipping magnates, mostly Anglo-Scottish Protestants. Their grey-limestone mansions line Sherbrooke and the slopes above. Read this against the working-class canal districts to understand the city's brutal class and linguistic divide. The wealth was concentrated and the divide was stark.
The district where Canada's Anglo-Scottish business elite — who once controlled most of the nation's wealth — built their mansions in grey stone.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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