{"id":3195,"date":"2015-01-19T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=3195&#038;lang=fr"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:56:07","slug":"conference-lidentite-historique-du-plateau-mont-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/conference-lidentite-historique-du-plateau-mont-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk: Historic identity of the Plateau Mont-Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Talk by\u00a0<b>Jean-Claude Robert<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus, Department of History, UQAM<\/i><\/p>\n<p>See <a title=\"L\u2019identit\u00e9 historique du Plateau\" href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=3025&amp;lang=en\">Jean-Claude Robert&#8217;s article<\/a> on this topic<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3196\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plateau_air1965.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3196\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3196\" alt=\"Canada, Phototh\u00e8que nationale de l\u2019air, Montr\u00e9al 1965, clich\u00e9 A 18763-150 (1:20000)\" src=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plateau_air1965-600x440.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plateau_air1965-600x440.jpg 600w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plateau_air1965.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada, Phototh\u00e8que nationale de l\u2019air, Montr\u00e9al 1965, clich\u00e9 A 18763-150 (1:20000)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What is a neighbourhood? A part of the city, of course, but it\u2019s not just a geographic area; it can also be the product of a series of communities in time, sources of multiple identities. The Plateau Mont-Royal is typical in this regard. Villages, parishes and neighbourhoods each gave the Plateau their own flavour, well before the establishment of the borough council in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Or is the \u201cPlateau\u201d a fictional place created by authors such as Mordecai Richler and Michel Tremblay? And what if fiction played a part in fashioning reality?<\/p>\n<p><em>Jean-Claude Robert, specialist in the history of Montreal, is the author of the\u00a0<\/em>Atlas historique de Montr\u00e9al<em>\u00a0and one of the co-authors of <\/em>Quebec: A History 1867-1929<em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Qu\u00e9bec Since 1930<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sunday 25 January 2014<\/b>,\u00a0<b>2:00<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 4:00 pm<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=7297,90163574&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL\">Mile End Library<\/a><\/b>, 5434 avenue du Parc, Montr\u00e9al (south of Saint-Viateur \u2013 80 bus) \u2013 in the upstairs meeting room<\/li>\n<li>Free, no reservation required<\/li>\n<li><b>Presentation in French, discussion in English and in French<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk by\u00a0Jean-Claude Robert Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UQAM See Jean-Claude Robert&#8217;s article on this topic What is a neighbourhood? A part of the city, of course, but it\u2019s not just a geographic area; it can also be the product of a series of communities in time, sources of multiple identities. The Plateau Mont-Royal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/3195"}],"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=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}