Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal -- Part 1: Homes and Homelessness -- 2 Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender, Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal -- 3 Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98 -- 4 Keeping Men Out of "Public or Semi-Public" Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, 1931-34 -- Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood -- 5 Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: The Montreal McCords -- 6 Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal -- Part 3: Youth, Institutions, and Identities -- 7 The Ideal Education to Construct an Ideal World: The Dunham Ladies' College and the Anglican Elite of the Montreal Diocese, 1860-1913 -- 8 On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women's Antidelinquency Work in Interwar Montreal -- 9 From Tomorrow's Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: The Search for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-58 -- Part 4: Selling and Consumption -- 10 "Behind the Store": Montreal Shopkeeping Families between the Wars -- 11 A Ritual Transformed: Women Smokers in Montreal, 1888-1950 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.