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Crossing Boundaries & Constructing LinkagesThe History of Montreal’s Square Mile in National and
International Context McGill University
19-20 June 2019
Day 1 19 June 2019 @ 279 Macdonald Engineering Building | d 9
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:15
9:15 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:00
1:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:45
4:00 - 4:50
Registration
Welcome - Don Nerbas (McGill)
Keynote - Roderick MacLeod, The High Ground: A Historical Overview of the Golden Square Mile
Nutrition Break
Session 1 – Institutions and Networks of a Metropole Kurt Korneski (MUN)“Not a very orderly population”: George Simpson, Donald Smith, andthe Making of a de facto State in Labrador, 1830-1855Jean-Philip Mathieu (McGill), Square Mile Capital and the Formation of Montreal RollingMills, 1867-68Mark Sholdice (University of Guelph), Towards a Taxonomy of Financial-IndustrialNetworks in Canada, 1867-1914
Chair: Robert Kristofferson (Wilfrid Laurier University)Lunch
Session 2 – Family and Gender, Connections and Boundaries
Peter Gossage (Concordia) and Lisa Moore (Concordia), Marriage, Property,
and the Law in a Square-Mile Family: The Case of Annie Stevenson Anderson vs David
Morrice, 1884
Max Hamon (McGill), “A Very Fair profit”: Commissioner Donald Smith and
Investment Networks in the Northwest
Elizabeth Kirkland (Dawson College) and Mary Anne Poutanen (Concordia), Searching for Intimacies Beyond the Notman Photographs: A Case Study of Amy
Redpath
Chair: Laura O'Brien (McGill)Nutrition Break
Keynote - Annmarie Adams (McGill), Unravelling Scottish Architecture in Canada:
Percy Nobbs, Ramsay Traquair and Their Montreal Networks
Walking Tour: Roderick MacLeod
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:1510:15 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:45
12:45 - 1:45
1:45 - 2:00 2:00 - 3:30
Registration
Session 3 – Architecture and Place
Julia Gersovitz (McGill), Architects of the Square Mile, 1860-1914
William Fong, Where Exactly was the Golden Square Mile and When?
Chair: Amy Korczynski (TD Group/CBHA)
Nutrition BreakSession 4 – Crisis and Transformation: the Square Mile in the Early Twentieth Century
Stephen Salmon (CBHA),T he Changing of the Guard: Bartlett McLennan, Roy Wolvin and
the Leveraged Buyout of the Montreal Transportation Company, 1903-1920
Greg Marchildon (UofT), Max Aitken in Montreal: Financial Innovation and Creative
Destruction in the Laurier BoomNicolas Kenny (SFU), Imperial Boundaries and Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers’ First World War Letters
Chair: Elsbeth Heaman (McGill)LunchSession 5 – Property, Credit, and Governance Robert Sweeny (MUN), Landed Ladies: Gender and Property Ownership in Turn-of-the-
Century Golden Square Mile
Sherry Olson (McGill), Applying the Tools of Visualization to Kinship, Credit, and
Governance
Chair: Michèle Dagenais (Université de Montréal)Nutrition BreakSession 6 - Private Fortunes, Globalization and Decline Alexander Reford, Dwindling Fortunes – The Montreal Business Elite and the Great
Depression
Andrew Ross (LAC), From the Golden Square Mile to the Las Vegas Golden Knights: The
Globalization of the Montreal Game
Joe Martin (Rotman), The Shift of the Financial Centre of Canada from Montreal to Toronto;
1929 to 1936
Chair: Don Nerbas (McGill) @ School of Architecture
Cynthia Hammond (Concordia), The Home, the Hospital, and the Healing Garden: Notman House
@ Rare Books and Special Collections5:00 - 6:15
6:15 - 7:00
Keynote - Harold Bérubé (Sherbrooke), The Death of the “Golden Square Mile”?
Understanding the Mutation of an Urban District, 1945-1980
Reception @ Faculty Club
7:00 - 10:00 Banquet and Closing Remarks
ff@ 279 Macdonald Engineering BuildingDay 2 20 June 2019
3:45 - 4:45