The loveliest lake in the New Dominion : Montreal villégiateurs on Lake Memphremagog, 1860-1914

In the early 1860s, wealthy English Montrealers began to purchase property on the shores of Lake Memphremagog to build lavish summer estates. Each year, these upper-class businessmen and their families would spend a significant part of the summer at their country houses, swimming in Lake Memphremago...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Jody
Other Authors: Bérubé, Harold
Language:English
Published: Université de Sherbrooke 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6533