In its corporate capacity : the Seminary of Montreal as a business institution, 1816-1876 / Brian Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Brian J., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business enterprises--Quebec (Province)--Montreal--History--19th century.

Business enterprises.

Church lands--Quebec (Province)--Montreal--History--19th century.

Church lands.

Montréal (Québec)--Economic conditions.

Montréal (Québec).

Grand Séminaire de Montréal--Finance--History--19th century.

Grand Séminaire de Montréal.

Physical Description:

xix, 295 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The end of the Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-8 assured the survival of the Seminary. Assuming a reinforced social and ideological role in industrializing Montreal, the Seminary benefited from new corporate powers, rights of recruitment, and income, while its expanding social role ensured its protection by an appreciate bourgeoisie. Emphasizing economic rather than religious history, Brian Young's study compares the Seminary's pre-industrial forms of income to its new capitalist revenues from land sales, subdivision developments, bonds, and rentier income from office, warehousing, and urban-housing properties. Its changing income required new forms of management and the priest-manager was eventually assisted by an accountant, architect, surveyor, clerk, and several notaries and lawyers. The Seminary played a central role in the development of popular schools in Montreal, and in financing and directing social institutions such as hospitals, newspapers, libraries, and national societies, the Seminary of Montreal legitimized the changing class structure of industrializing Montreal.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Appendixes

Introduction

Holy Housekeeping

Political Relations of the Seminary in the Transition

Seigneurialism on Seminary Lands

Freedom of Property

From Seigneur to Capitalist

Land Developers

Class Legitimation

Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Appendix 6

Appendix 7

Appendix 8

Appendix 9

Appendix 10

Appendix 11

Appendix 12

Appendix 13

Appendix 14

Appendix 15

Appendix 16

Appendix 17

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85076-8

9786612850769

0-7735-6109-9