{"id":721,"date":"2012-04-10T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=721"},"modified":"2013-12-27T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:20:08","slug":"conference-le-jardin-du-carmel-assemblee-generale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/conference-le-jardin-du-carmel-assemblee-generale\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: The Carmelite Garden \u2013 Annual general meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Montreal Carmelite Garden<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>its history, its symbolism, its value<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean-Paul Simard<\/strong>, gardener and art historian<\/p>\n<p>The monastery of the Carmelites of Montreal has been located in Mile End since 1896. This talk focuses on its garden: its origins, its symbolism, and its value as a historical garden. Also, a review of the controversy over the future of the monastery and its garden which led to its designation as a Qu\u00e9bec historic site in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Paul Simard holds degrees in art history and conservation of the built environment. He is a horticulture and parks manager at the City of Montreal, and a member of the board of directors of Mile End Memories.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Sunday 15 April 2012, <\/strong><strong>2:00\u20133:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mile End Library<br \/>\n5434 avenue du Parc, Montreal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(south of Saint-Viateur \u2013 80 bus)<\/p>\n<p><em>Cost: <\/em><strong>Free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Languages: <\/em><strong>Talk in French, discussion <\/strong><strong>in French and English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME-affiche.120415.Carmel.pdf\">Poster (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The talk will be followed by the Annual General Meeting of Mile End Memories, at 3:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME-odj-AGA-120415_prel.pdf\">Proposed agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME-CR-AGA-110518_rev.pdf\">Minutes of the AGM of 18 May 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Mile End Memories <\/em>is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the heritage, history and culture of the Mile End neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Consult our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mile-end.qc.ca\/?page_id=72&#038;lang=en\">program of activities for 2012<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture The Montreal Carmelite Garden its history, its symbolism, its value Jean-Paul Simard, gardener and art historian The monastery of the Carmelites of Montreal has been located in Mile End since 1896. This talk focuses on its garden: its origins, its symbolism, and its value as a historical garden. Also, a review of the controversy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/721"}],"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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}