Montréal: My Love, My Story
Season 1
Ep 2. Maisonneuve: Cradle of Industry
- May 24, 2018
- 52 min
At the dawn of the 20th Century, industrialists and real estate developers attract a vast working class to the east side of the island of Montreal by offering cheap housing and industrial jobs. Mostly French Canadian laborers make trains, airplanes, tanks and even submarines. The brothers Oscar and Marius Dufresne, enriched by the immense shoe-manufacturing business founded by their parents.