Governing the Island of Montreal : language differences and metropolitan politics / Andrew Sancton.

Intro
Contents
Tables and Maps
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The Environment for Metropolitan Reform
Alliances of Convenience
Comparisons with the United States
Political Will
Political Will
I. French and English in Montreal prior to 1960
2. The Emergence of the "Two Solitudes
Montreal's Ethnic Balance
Ethnic Diversity Without Conflict
Evidence of English Dominance
Mutual Isolation
3. Municipal Government in Montreal
The English Retreat to the Suburbs
Annexations
The Montreal Metropolitan Commission
Twentieth-Century Populist Mayors
Camiliien Houde
Proposals for Metropolitan Reform
The Municipal Service Bureau and the Borough System
The Paquette Report
The Suburbs Begin to Organize
The Montreal Metropolitan Corporation
The Politics of Caution
4 Schools and Social Services
School Boards
School Boards and the Constitution
Jews: Catholic or Protestant?
English-Speaking Catholics
Growing Demand for Educational Reform, 1925-1960
Social Services: The Public Charities Act
The Welfare State Comes to Quebec
The Welfare State Comes to Quebec
II. The Quiet Revolution
5. Quebec Politics and the Politicization of Language, 1960-1981
The Quiet Revolution
English Canada Responds
English Canada Responds
Provincial Politics in Turmoil, 1966-1970
Montreal's Language Groups
Francophones: A Homogeneous Ethnic Group
Anglophones: Only a Language Group
Others": French or English?
Montreal: Bilingual City?
Language: The Territorial Dimension
Bills 63 and 22: Language in the Political Arena
Robert Bourassa and Bill 22
The Impact of the Parti Québécois
René Lévesque and Bill 101
French: The New Language of Work
The 1980 Referendum and the 1981 Provincial Election.

Anglophones and Language Legislation
III. Reorganizing Montreal's Local Government
6. Creating the Montreal Urban Community
Drapeau's Metropolitan Strategies
Establishing the Blier Commission
Annexation Battles
Searching for a Solution
Blier's Final Compromise
The Lack of Provincial Action
The Montreal Urban Community: First Version
Another Retreat
The Police Strike of October 1969
Saulnier's Solution
Weakness on All Fronts
The Creation of the MUC
Bill 75 and the Legislative Process
Functions of the MUC
The Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission
A Noncontroversial Reform
7. The Montreal Urban Community in Operation
Saulnier as MUC Chair
Hanigan and DesMarais
The MUC: Accomplishments and Failures
The Quality of Air and Water
Public Transit
Regional Planning
The Montreal Urban Community Police Department
Problems with Police-Cost Sharing
Police Force Unification
Quebec Municipal Commission: 1972 MUC Budget
Language and Policing
Attempts at Municipal Consolidation
The Westmount "Bourg" Plan
Lochine's Seven Cities Plan
Hanigan's Suggested Mergers
Tinkering with MUC Structures
Pointe-aux-Trembles Annexation
The Suburban Alliance
8. The Reorganization of Montreal's School Boards
Seculcurization of School Boards
The Page Report
Bill 62: Eleven Unified School Boards
Opposition Grows
The Liberal Proposal: Bill 28
Bill 28 in Committee
Bill 71: The School Council of the Island of Montreal
Bill 71: Passage and Implementation
School Board Reorganization: An Unresolved Problem
9. Social Services
The First Version of Bill 65
Castonguay Makes Concessions
The Council of Health and Social Services of Metropolitan Montreal
Language Issues
Social Service Centers for Montreal.

Three Centers: French, English, and Jewish
Sectorization
Drawing Linguistic Boundaries
The Private Politics of Public Social Services
10 Conclusion: Language Differences and Metropolitan Reform in Montreal
The Policing Controversy
Uniqueness of Social Services
School Boards: Pressure from Quebec Nationalists
Appendix: Political Parties in Canada, Quebec, and Montreal.