{"id":2540,"date":"2014-02-11T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=2540&#038;lang=fr"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:43:06","slug":"conference-200-ans-dhistoire-du-mile-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/conference-200-ans-dhistoire-du-mile-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: 200 Years of Mile End History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>from Coteau Saint-Louis to the lively urban village of today\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lecture by Justin Bur<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2143\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/122413_1817_Notespourun9.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2143\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2143\" alt=\"Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, ca. 1890 \/\u00a0photographer uncertain\" src=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/122413_1817_Notespourun9-600x392.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/122413_1817_Notespourun9-600x392.jpg 600w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/122413_1817_Notespourun9.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, ca. 1890 \/\u00a0photographer uncertain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Coteau Saint-Louis, Mile End, Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, Laurier, the North End, Saint-Louis, and once again Mile End: the area on either side of Saint-Laurent Blvd., starting from a mile beyond the big hill below Sherbrooke St., has borne all these names. Forests, tanneries, orchards, pasture, and quarries were its main land uses, before the landscape was transformed into a suburb as the city blossomed into a metropolis. The mainly francophone population of the early days became bilingual then multilingual, as waves of immigration and transformation remade \u2013\u00a0and still remake \u2013 the area.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Justin Bur<\/i><\/b><i>, urban planning and computer science graduate, is president of <\/i>Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard<i> and a member of the board of Mile End Memories. His recent research has delved into the railway history of Montreal and the spatial, cultural and functional evolution of Mile End.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Sunday 16 February 2014,<br \/>\n2:00\u20134:00 p.m.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Mile End Library<br \/>\n5434 avenue du Parc, Montreal\u00a0<\/b>(south of Saint-Viateur \u2013 80 bus)<\/p>\n<p><b>Free<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Lecture in French,\u00a0<\/b>discussion in French and English<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Coteau Saint-Louis to the lively urban village of today\u00a0 Lecture by Justin Bur Coteau Saint-Louis, Mile End, Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, Laurier, the North End, Saint-Louis, and once again Mile End: the area on either side of Saint-Laurent Blvd., starting from a mile beyond the big hill below Sherbrooke St., has borne all these names. Forests, tanneries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}