Starting in 1958, houses in the blocks between Hutchison and Sainte-Famille, from Milton up to des Pins, began quietly changing ownership. The buyers were intermediaries—companies whose names were no more than registered numbers for names or that acted as go-betweens. One greystone at a time, year after year, and this continued for a decade. By the time residents worked out what they were looking at, the developer behind the purchases, Concordia Estates Ltd., controlled more than nine-tenths of six square blocks, having spent close to $20 million to get there. A few individual owners held out against this process, but most of the land stayed out of the developer's hands belonged to churches and schools.
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