It's a 350-page beast complete with a fat chapter on Montreal's most notable bars, others on Montreal restaurants, hotels, venues, along with chapters on sports/recreation, odd moments, retail, geography and transportation.
It's definitive, authoritative, and exposes Montreal's crazy and often-jawdropping past.
The Odd moments chapter alone is worth the price of the book, with plenty of sex cults and other nonsense.
Buy it off of Amazon, in paper or e-book form.
Or snap it up at Paragraph on McGill College Ave. or one of the wtwo Au Vieux Bouc outlets on the east side.
It took a lifetime to assemble and two years to write.
Reviews include:
- "An interesting read which provides readers with the history of Montreal. Great description and anecdotes make you feel like you were there!"
- "If the gods created people so they'd have something to talk about, Kristian Gravenor's Montreal (2017) makes it clear that Canadians created Montrealers so they'd have something to talk about."
The Amazon link:
Paragraph Books at 2220 McGill CollegeLibrairie Au Vieux Bouc at 2884 Masson and 3615 Ontario)