Triplex rowhousing, Fabre Street, 2021 (photo Justin Bur)
Just what does working-class housing mean? There is a tendency to call anything built before the 1930s a “working-class neighborhood”. But the rowhouses of Montreal’s older neighbourhoods reveal a diversity of forms, and a wide variety of façade treatments and ornamentation. In more recently built neighborhoods, row housing gave way to semi-detached or detached houses and new forms with roots in modernism.
The talk, in French, will provide an illustrated overview of these house types and their evolution, while considering the difference – if any – between working-class and middle-class housing during the twentieth century.
The speaker will be Justin Bur, a doctoral candidate in urban studies at UQAM and member of the board of Mile End Memories.
Sunday, November 10, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Mordecai-Richler Library
5434 Park Avenue, Montreal, H2V 4G7, #80 bus
Free admission, no reservation required
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