The Montreal History Group

The Montreal History Group is a multi-university, bilingual research collective composed of students, independent scholars and faculty whose research spans the mid-18th to 20th century and generally focuses on Montreal or uses the city for comparative purposes.


Recent News:


► Talk: Donald Fyson will give a talk entitled "La Conquête et les élites canadiennes: mythes et réalités" at the Chapelle du Musée de l'Amérique française, 10 November at 5:30pm. Information

► New Member: The Montreal History Group welcomes its newest member, Brian Gettler. Brian is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research focuses on the economic and social history of Aboriginal peoples in Québec and Ontario. Brian Gettler

► Conference: Andrée Lévesque, Bettina Bradbury, Sylvie Taschereau and Denyse Baillargeon will give papers at the Mais qui sont les Montréalaises? conference. This conference is part of the Women's History Month and will take place on 24 October from 9:30am to 4pm at 1550 Metcalfe, 14th Floor, Montreal. Information and Programme.

► Visitor: Ciaran Toal, Ph.D. candidate (Queen’s University, Belfast) is a visitor to the Montreal History Group from 12 to 24 October, to pursue research about the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting of 1884, which was held in Montreal. This research is part of a larger comparative project with Cork entitled Space and Spectacle: Science and Religion at the British Association. Ciaran Toal

► Talk: Sean Mills, "Repenser les années 60 au Québec," CEFAN (Université Laval), 1 October.

► Book Launch: Sean Mills et al, eds. New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009) will be launched Friday September 18th at 5:00pm at The Artel, 205 Sydenham St., Kingston, and Friday October 2nd at 5:00pm at Touski Café, 2361 rue Ontario Est, Montréal. For more information: Between the Lines (416-535-9914).

► Conference: "Histoire et idées du patrimoine, de la régionalisation à la mondialisation - 5e Rencontre internationale des jeunes chercheurs en patrimoine" (Rimouski, 27-29 August 2009), organized by Karine Hébert and Julien Goyette. Info: Karine Hébert

► Publication: Denyse Baillargeon. "La médicalisation de la maternité au Québec comme enjeu de pouvoir(1910-1970)." in Pourvoir médical et santé totalitaire : conséquences socio-anthropologiques et éthiques, ed. Hachimi Sanni Yaya (Québec: Presses de l’université Laval, 2009): 177-203

► Publication: Nicolas Kenny. "From Body and Home to Nation and World: The Varying Scales of Transnational Urbanism in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the 20th century." Urban History 36,2 (August 2009), 223-42.

► Publication: Denyse Baillargeon. Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970. (Trans. W. Donald Wilson; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009).

► Publication: Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord, Sean Mills, and Scott Rutherford, eds. New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009).

► Grant: Donald Fyson, Tamara Myers and Mary Anne Poutanen were awarded a SSHRC standard research grant (2009-2012) for their project entitled "Criminal Justice and Gendered Bodies in Quebec City and Montreal, from the 1840s to the 1930s".

► Publication: Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds. Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).

► Publication: Magda Fahrni. "Reflections on the Place of Quebec in Historical Writing on Canada." in Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History. ed. Christopher Dummitt and Michael Dawson (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2009): 1-20.

► Prize: Sean Mills was awarded the 2009 John Bullen Prize by the Canadian Historical Association and the Eugene Forsey Prize in Canadian and Working-Class History for his Ph.D. thesis, "The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical Imagination, 1963-1972" (Queen's University, 2007).


For full details and older news, see our News and Announcements page.