1. Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers

Part 1: Homes and Homelessness

2. Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender, Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Mary Anne Poutanen

3. Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98 / Darcy Ingram

4. Keeping Men Out of "Public or Semi-Public" Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Homeless Men, 1931-34 / Anna Shea and Suzanne Morton

Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood

5. Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: The Montreal McCords / Brian Young

6. Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury

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 / Marie-Eve Harbec, translated by Yvonne Klein

8. On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women's Anti-Delinquency Work in Interwar Montreal / Tamara Myers

9. From Tomorrow’s Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: The Search for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-58 / Karine Hébert, translated by Steven Watt

Part 4: Selling and Consumption

10. "Behind the Store": Montreal Shopkeeping Families Between the Wars / Sylvie Taschereau, translated by Yvonne Klein

11. A Ritual Transformed: Women Sm