Cities have long been a subject of interest in literature, with fictional and emotional depictions of historical neighbourhoods influencing how readers remember urban spaces. Based on the results of my undergraduate thesis, this multidisciplinary project draws on research from fields such as literary criticism, human geography, and narrative mapping to propose a cartographic visualization of the literary depictions of urban spaces in two novels set in Montréal in the 1940s: Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion (1954) and Michel Tremblay’s La grosse femme d’à côté est enceinte (1978). Following a close reading, a total of 106 passages depicting urban locations were identified, annotated with a selection of emotional themes, then mapped using the platform Atlascine. This joint cartographic-literary exercise, represented in an interactive web map, revealed a pattern in the emotionality of urban spaces depicted in these two novels. Positive feelings of joy and welcome were largely associated with characters’ home neighbourhoods, while feelings of anxiety and inferiority areas were experienced outside of these spaces. Despite its small scale, the project has great potential for continued development, possibly through the use of geographical text analysis (GTA) and natural language processing (NLP) in order to increase the size of the corpus and ‘systematize’ the literary analysis. The combination of these computational analysis techniques with the story mapping capabilities of Atlascine opens new possibilities for analyzing and visualizing literary geographies, thereby expanding our understanding of the influence of literature on the shaping of cities’ memories, while effectively contributing to the fields of literary mapping, digital humanities, and urban studies.