MONTREAL - The Days That Are No More

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1976. Book. Illus. by John Collins;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 316 pp. Red patterned boards; lettered in black on the spine; endpaper maps. Light edgewear on the dustjacket; short closed tear on the rear panel of the jacket and a small scuff mark on the front. The chapters are: PART ONE - The French Regime: The Brides Who Came by Shiploads: The King's Girls: The Strong Man of St. Sulpice: Dillier de Casson; The Chief They Called the Rat: Kondiaronk; The Prisoner of God: Jeanne Le Ber; The Man with the Iron Hand: Henri de Tonty; The Traders of the Waterfront: the Fur Fairs; The Mother of the Homeless: Mme.d'Youville. PART TWO - Americans' Montreal: The Man George Washington Did Not Admire: Ethan Allen; The American Who Captured Montreal: Richard Montgomery; The Ruler of a Testy Winter: David Wooster; The Great Diplomat Who Failed: Benjamin Franklin; The Last American to Command Montreal: Benedict Arnold; Good God, This Is Murder: Thomas Walker. PART THREE - Adventures and Ordeals: Murder Among Gentlemen: The Duel; Citizens of the Wilderness: The Voyageurs; The Huge, Rugged, Uneven Boulder: the Irish Stone; Winter Cheerfulness and Muffins: the Sleighs; Tragedy in the Lane: The Firemen; March Away O'er the Snow: the Snowshoers. PART FOUR - Persons and Places: Wife Murderer to Stonewall's Sunday: the Champ de Mars; He Had His Faults: D'Arcy McGee; The Little Emperor of the Fur Trade: Sir George Simpson; The Mountain That Was Too Far Away: Mount Royal; It Took Six Years to Bury HIm: Joseph Guibord; and The Man Who Changed the World: Ernest Rutherford..