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David Monteyne is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Architecture, in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada. He teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. Monteyne has held fellowships at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. He is the author of Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
Immigration Architectures of Canada
Beginning in the mid-19th century, Canadian governments built a network of immigration architecture across the country. “Immigration sheds,” where transoceanic liners would dock, immigrants would be processed, and trains of colonist cars would whisk them away to remote areas of Canada, were complemented by a wide range of quarantine, hostelling, and support facilities in receiving areas. Portions of this network of immigration facilities were in operation, with changes, up to the 1960s when immigrants increasingly arrived by air, and came from farther away. This research aims to interpret official, governmental intentions evidenced by Canadian immigration architecture; and also to trace unofficial, informal practices of people who occupied, used, and were processed through the spaces, which I attempt to delineate through the mobilization of immigrant stories as recorded in first-person sources such as memoirs and oral histories.
Monteyne will also be giving an information session for interested students on the U of C’s Masters of Architecture and Masters of Planning on Tuesday, October 7 at 11am in W850.
Image from Library and Archives Canada
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca