Alcide Chausse / J. William Ritchie / JWilliam Ritchie
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Montreal’s building law, laid bare. A working handbook for those who made and mended the city.Alcide Chausse’s Building Inspectors’ Handbook of the City of Montreal stands as a pragmatic, authoritative building code reference guide and construction by-laws handbook: methodical, explicit and relentlessly useful. It assembles the city’s buildings by-laws and ordinances with plumbing and sanitary regulations, drainage and sewerage laws, engineers’ rules and regulations, steam boiler inspection rules and an electrical terminology glossary, creating an architects and builders manual and a contractors field reference that tradesmen, surveyors and municipal inspectors relied on. The language is technical yet accessible, the instructions exacting; its pages map how materials, labour and law combined to shape the nineteenth-century Montreal building landscape.Historically significant and unusually vivid, this volume belongs to a historic building codes collection and offers a primary lens on early Canadian municipal practice and wider Canadian construction regulations. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure. Casual readers will find a compelling portrait of urban life and civic order; classic-literature collectors and preservation professionals will value the handbook as an engineers regulatory handbook and as evidence for restoration, research and provenance.Engineers, architects and trade historians find it an essential contractors field reference and an engineers regulatory handbook for understanding how nineteenth-century rules affected everyday construction choices. The electrical terminology glossary and careful, procedural tone make the volume approachable for modern readers while preserving the procedural detail demanded by professionals. Whether consulted by a weekend enthusiast tracing the city’s fabric or by a collector assembling a historic building codes collection, Chausse’s handbook rewards curiosity with exact, characterful information about a formative moment in Canadian construction regulations. It endures as a working artefact.
