Bliss, Michael.Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montréal. HarperCollins, 1991. Gripping account of how Montréal coped with a smallpox epidemic in 1885 that killed 3,234 people.
Demchinsky, Bryan, and Elaine Kalman Naves, eds.Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination. MacFarland, 2000. A mosaic of literary passages from notable Montreal writers, including Leonard Cohen, Mordecai Richler and Gabriel Roy.
Germain, Annick, and Damaris Rose.Montreal: The Quest for a Metropolis. Wiley, 2000. Reflections on the bilingual history of Montreal and its clash with increasing multicultural growth.
Weintraub, William.City Unique. McClelland & Stewart, 1998. Once Canada's largest, richest, and most cosmopolitan city, Montréal is masterfully captured in this portrait of the glory days of the 1940s and 1950s.