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Power and Planning
Nature reorganized
Arvida, cités-jardins, Ernest Isbell Barott, Garden City, industrial, industriel, Ludger Lemieux, Québec, Ross and Macdonald, Shawinigan, Témiscaming, Thomas Adams
23 July 2009
Nature reorganized
New towns created by private enterprise in the early years of the twentieth century bear witness to the confluence of economic, social, and political forces at work in shaping urban forms. Built quickly and expensively, these towns thoroughly planned to sustain industrial profits, relying on social control to ensure the hegemony of the ruling class. This exhibition traces(...)
Main galleries
6 March 1996 to 26 May 1996
Power and Planning: Industrial Towns in Québec, 1890-1950
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New towns created by private enterprise in the early years of the twentieth century bear witness to the confluence of economic, social, and political forces at work in shaping urban forms. Built quickly and expensively, these towns thoroughly planned to sustain industrial profits, relying on social control to ensure the hegemony of the ruling class. This exhibition traces(...)
Main galleries
photographs
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2 photograph(s)
PH1995:0078:001-002
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Group consists of 2 colour photographic prints that form a panorama view of rue McLeod, Arvida, Quebec.
1995
Panorama of rue McLeod, Arvida, Quebec
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PH1995:0078:001-002
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Group consists of 2 colour photographic prints that form a panorama view of rue McLeod, Arvida, Quebec.
photographs
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2 photograph(s)
1995
photographs
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2 photograph(s)
Panorama of workers' housing on Wohler and Davy streets looking northeast, north Arvida, Quebec
PH1995:0080:001-002
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Group consists of 2 colour photographic prints that form a panorama view of workers' housing on Wohler and Davy streets looking northeast, north Arvida, Quebec.
1995
Panorama of workers' housing on Wohler and Davy streets looking northeast, north Arvida, Quebec
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PH1995:0080:001-002
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Group consists of 2 colour photographic prints that form a panorama view of workers' housing on Wohler and Davy streets looking northeast, north Arvida, Quebec.
photographs
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2 photograph(s)
1995
photographs
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2 photograph(s)
PH1995:0083:001-002
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Group consists of 2 colour photographic prints that form a panorama view of workers' housing built by Wartime Housing Limited, 1941-46 rue Lamarche at rue Poitras looking northwest, Arvida, Quebec.
1995
Panorama of workers' housing built by Wartime Housing Limited, 1941-46 rue Lamarche at rue Poitras looking northwest, Arvida, Quebec
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PH1995:0083:001-002
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Group consists of 2 colour photographic prints that form a panorama view of workers' housing built by Wartime Housing Limited, 1941-46 rue Lamarche at rue Poitras looking northwest, Arvida, Quebec.
photographs
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2 photograph(s)
1995
archives
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Fonds
AP074
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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds contains photographs dating from about 1947, of a house project in West Vancouver which Chard Wisnicki, the first female graduate of the McGill School of Architecture, was assistant architect. The fonds also contains a videocassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki from 1995, and one textual document from 1997.
[ca. 1947], 1995, 1997
Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds
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AP074
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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds contains photographs dating from about 1947, of a house project in West Vancouver which Chard Wisnicki, the first female graduate of the McGill School of Architecture, was assistant architect. The fonds also contains a videocassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki from 1995, and one textual document from 1997.
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[ca. 1947], 1995, 1997
books
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312 pages ; 19 cm
Montréal (Québec) : Les Éditions du Boréal, [2014], ©2014
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Montréal (Québec) : Les Éditions du Boréal, [2014], ©2014
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26 unnumbered pages : all illustrations ; 20 x 29 cm
[Québec?] : [publisher not identified], [194-]
The Saguenay Inn, Arvida, Quebec.
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26 unnumbered pages : all illustrations ; 20 x 29 cm
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[Québec?] : [publisher not identified], [194-]
maps
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1 map on 11 sheets : color ; sheets 34 x 31 cm
Toronto : Underwriters' Survey Bureau, [1970]
Insurance plan of the city of Arvida, Que., population 16,000 : plan dated July 1970.
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1 map on 11 sheets : color ; sheets 34 x 31 cm
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Toronto : Underwriters' Survey Bureau, [1970]
books
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251 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Sillery, Québec : Septentrion, ©1998.
Arvida, cité industrielle : une épopée urbaine en Amérique / Lucie K. Morisset, préface de Daniel Le Couédic.
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251 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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Sillery, Québec : Septentrion, ©1998.