This selection of approximately 300 images provides a sample of the collections related to Montreal's middle class, between the years 1840 and 1945. It recalls certain key figures from the city's elite as well as various corporate, industrial, social, cultural, sporting and philanthropical activities.

Profile:

• Portraits of financiers, manufacturers, merchants, politicians, professionals, philanthropists (men and women), etc.;
• Bourgeois homes and popular stops of the wealthy;
• Scenes recalling middle-class activities, leisure and consumer practices;
• Furniture, dishes, clothing, accessories and excerpts from archival texts.

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