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.


Upcoming Events:

► 18 February: Jeudi d'histoire (McGill University). Louise Bienvenue (Université de Sherbrooke): Traiter la délinquance juvénile autrement : l’expérience rééducative de Boscoville (1941-1970)



► Winter 2010. Talk: The complete schedule for the 2010 Jeudis d'histoire can be found here.



Recent News:

► Seminar: Muffins & Methodology, February 5th, 12:00, Beaverbrook Room (Ferrier, 230). Tom Hulme (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester): Researching Citizenship: Sources, Methods and Problems.

► Talk: Jeudi d'histoire, 4 February (Université de Montréal): Tom Hulme (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester), “Fit for Democracy”: Civic Festivals and the Production of the Citizen in 1920s Chicago and Manchester. The conference begins at 5pm in room C-6121, pavillon Lionel-Groulx.

► Talk: Karine Hébert will give the keynote address at the 10th International Student Colloquium organized by ARTEFACT at Université Laval on February 3rd. She will also paricipate in a roundtable on February 2nd on "Regards sur l'engagement étudiant". Information.

► Visitor: The Montreal History Group welcomes Tom Hulme, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leicester, from February 1st to 5th.

► Talk: Jeudi d'histoire, 21 January (McGill University): Catherine Bertho-Lavenir (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III/McGill University), "Une éducation à la modernité : les récits de voyage en Europe d’Anne-Marie Palardy, 1909-1914." The conference begins at 5pm in the Ferrier Building, room 230.

► Visitor: The Montreal History Group welcomes Catherine Bertho-Lavenir (Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris 3). Professor Bertho-Lavenir is a visiting scholar in the History Department at McGill University and will participate in some of the Group's activities.

► Publication: Denyse Baillargeon. "Éduquer les enfants, discipliner les parents: les rapports famille-école à Montréal, 1910-1960." in Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation 21,2 (Fall 2009).

► Publication: Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds. Lost Kids: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009). The book includes contributions from Denyse Baillargeon and Tamara Myers.


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