Montreal: Clarence Epstein

City Of Spires. Dept: Clarence Epstein is the director of special projects and cultural affairs at Concordia University. He's also an expert on religious architecture and has written a new book called 'Montreal, City of Spires.', according to CTV. After the British conquest, particularly of Montreal, there was a wave of immigration that came through via the British Empire and its various colonies, and the various immigrants came in, whether they were Presbyterian, Quakers, Jews, of the like were coming into Montreal for the first time because Montreal was effectively a French Roman Catholic town, said Epstein and mark Twain once famously said of Montreal that you couldn't throw a brick without breaking a church window. He said that Montreal has so many churches because it has been a landing point for multiple waves of immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.