{"id":3574,"date":"2016-04-03T18:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2016-04-03T21:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T01:15:53","slug":"conference-une-page-dhistoire-oubliee-mile-end-juif-lelection-de-1934-dans-le-quartier-laurier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/conference-une-page-dhistoire-oubliee-mile-end-juif-lelection-de-1934-dans-le-quartier-laurier\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk: A forgotten page of Mile End Jewish history: the election of 1934 in Laurier Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Talk by\u00a0<b>Yves Desjardins<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3576\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3576\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3576\" src=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinique-Seigler-VM94-Z97-2-600x390.jpg\" alt=\"Salle d\u2019attente de la clinique Seigler (Laurier), 1933. AVM, VM94-Z97\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinique-Seigler-VM94-Z97-2-600x390.jpg 600w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinique-Seigler-VM94-Z97-2-768x500.jpg 768w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinique-Seigler-VM94-Z97-2-1024x666.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinique-Seigler-VM94-Z97-2.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waiting room of the\u00a0Seigler (Laurier) Clinic, 1933.<br \/>AVM, VM94-Z97<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Spring 1934. The Great Depression of the 1930s is at its worst. Camillien Houde is about to take back the mayoralty of Montreal. His supporters and opponents combat fiercely in the city\u2019s districts.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is exceptional: Laurier Ward, i.e., the southern part of today\u2019s Mile End. A \u201cnational unity\u201d candidate, Omer Langlois, is running against the incumbent Jewish councillor, Max Seigler. The campaign is impassionned and violent. A recently opened municipal medical clinic (corner of Mont-Royal and Henri-Julien, now occupied by Jeunesses musicales du Canada) is the focal point of the storm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Yves Desjardins<\/b>\u00a0is an urban history researcher and a member of the board of Mile End Memories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sunday 10 April 2016<\/b>,\u00a0<b>2:00<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 4:00 pm<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/plateau\/bibliothequedumileend\">Mordecai-Richler Library \u2013 Mile End District<\/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><div id=\"attachment_3577\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3577\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3577\" src=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Refuge-Meurling-1933-VM94-Z35-600x410.jpg\" alt=\"Meurling Refuge, 1933. \/ AVM, VM94-Z35\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Refuge-Meurling-1933-VM94-Z35-600x410.jpg 600w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Refuge-Meurling-1933-VM94-Z35-768x525.jpg 768w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Refuge-Meurling-1933-VM94-Z35-1024x700.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Refuge-Meurling-1933-VM94-Z35.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meurling Refuge, 1933. \/ AVM, VM94-Z35<\/p><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk by\u00a0Yves Desjardins Spring 1934. The Great Depression of the 1930s is at its worst. Camillien Houde is about to take back the mayoralty of Montreal. His supporters and opponents combat fiercely in the city\u2019s districts. One of them is exceptional: Laurier Ward, i.e., the southern part of today\u2019s Mile End. A \u201cnational unity\u201d candidate, [&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\/3574"}],"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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}