Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class

Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city’s English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry in Montreal were clustered and by which these two communities were formed and divided.

Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by ...