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For anyone who grew up in Montreal between 1968 and 1994, as I was lucky enough to do, or at least for any anglophone, to use the term that replaced “English Montrealer” in the course of that time, Terry Mosher’s Aislin’s Montreal Expos: A Cartoonist’s Love Affair is almost too painfully resonant to read. Here, from the hand and memory of the artist who (under his daughter’s name, Aislin) chronicled the time and the team for the Montreal Gazette, are all the images of an era. It was one that started very badly, with the October Crisis, then took (from the anglophone point of view) a wrong turn with the referendum that made it plain that independence might not be a long way off. But it ended in the fortunate way of Montreal, with political things more or less in place and in many ways much improved and with a kind of cultural renaissance that, for the most part, continues to this day. What is now called and valued as the Plateau was then still the student...