12-09-2020, 04:59 PM
(12-09-2020, 02:42 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: You don't even have to go to the US to see it. Montreal has a number of enclaves...apparently there is one in Victoria BC as well.
The local context for Montreal is that there used to be a bunch of cities (plus the Montreal Urban Community which wasn't that powerful) and then some Quebec government decided to do the thing that provincial governments do and merge them. People weren't happy and a subsequent government had demerger votes so that boroughs could become cities again, but the bar was quite high.
(OK, so even before the mergers the city of Montreal was not contiguous, there were mergers from the early part of the 20th century also. An interesting one is in the east end, the Cité de Maisonneuve a bit east of the present-day Olympic Stadium was ambitious and built stuff and then ran out of money and got merged with Montreal. There's a short bit of the history at the end of this page, in French: http://patrimoine.ville.montreal.qc.ca/p...67-3765-01)