Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 Joan Coutu Part One Planning and Building the Nation 1 From the City Beautiful to the City Efficient: The Transformation of Canada's Civic Improvement Movement, 1910-1930 21 David L.A. Gordon 2 Beyond Style: The Training and Early Work of Canada's Four Beaux-Arts Pioneers 44 Isabelle Gournay 3 The Belated Classicism of Montreal's Maisonneuve District 63 Aniel Guxholli 4 Temples of Commerce: Canada's Edwardian-Era Bank Architecture 84 David Winterton 5 Arthur A. Stoughton and the City Beautiful Movement in Winnipeg 112 Jeffrey Thorsteinson 6 "A City of the Future": Thomas Mawson's Preliminary Scheme for Calgary as Imperial Map 135 Stephanie Weber 7 The Architecture of Tourism: Banff and Niagara Falls 154 Joan Coutu 8 Looking Beyond the Lookout: Classicism, Indigeneity, and Montreal's Kondiaronk Belvedere 179 Samuel DuBois Part two a Case study: Hamilton, tHe "amBitious City" Introduction 195 David A. Galbraith 9 Revisioning the Industrial City: Space, Place, and Classical Visions in Hamilton, 1920s-1950s 199 Nicholas Terpstra 10 Thomas Baker McQuesten - a Modern Medici 227 John Best 11 The City Beautiful in the Ambitious City: Noulan Cauchon's 1917 Reconnaissance Report on Hamilton 243 Mark Osbaldeston 12 Utopia and Pragmatism: Thomas Baker McQuesten and the Origins of Royal Botanical Gardens 263 David A. Galbraith Afterword: Hubris 293 Joan Coutu Appendix 1: Former Students of the École des Beaux-Arts Who Worked in Canada 297 Isabelle Gournay Appendix 2: Chart Comparing École des Beaux-Arts Performances for Jean-Omer Marchand, John M. Lyle, Alfred H. Chapman, Samuel Stevens Haskell, Edward H.

Bennett, Max Doumic, and Ernest Hébrard 316 Isabelle Gournay Table, Maps, and Figures 319 Bibliography 329 Contributors 351 Index 355.