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FS9 Lachine Canal, Industrial Heritage Conservation & Redevelopment

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

7:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST

CE: 3

Additional Cost to Attend/Contribution supplémentaire requise

Coordinator(s)

Emily Beauregard, OAQ, OAA, CAHP, APT Director

Architect, Discipline Manager
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Canada
Jean-Benoit Saint-Laurent, Arch.

Gestionnaire du programme de conservation du patrimoine
SPAC Gouvernement Fédéral

Facilitator(s)

CS

Christopher Sweetnam Holmes
John Festarini

Director, Quebec Waterways
Parks Canada, Canada
Ophélie Clermont, MA (she/her/hers)

Muséologue
Les Forges de Montréal, Canada

This session has qualified for 3 LU|HSW Credits

Meet: 7:30 AM
Departure: 8:05 AM
The Lachine Canal, a 13.5 km former commercial shipping channel, once served as the port of entry from the Atlantic to the continent. The National Historic Site of Canada is a navigable waterway lined by a green urban park with industrial vestiges. Participants will begin the session at the Peel Basin, walk to Lock 1 & 2 in Old Montreal via de la Commune Street, Silo #5 at Windmill Point Basin, and the Forges of Montreal via Mill Street . The session provides the experience of the adaptive reuse and infill per the Griffintown Redevelopment Master Plan and the Wellington Basin Redevelopment Preliminary Master Plan. The walk along the canal includes other notable industrial and manufacturing heritage structures such as bridges, locks, factories and the Redpath sugar refinery. The field session ends at the art deco style Atwater Market, in operation since 1933. Total walking distance 7km (4.3mi).

Learning Objectives:

Recognize the initial heritage elements from the mid to late 1800s, reflecting the impact of hydraulic power as the stimulus for the growth of the Lachine Canal region's top three manufacturing industries of wood, iron, and steel.
Assess the success of the adaptive reuse of the Atwater Market as an early Canadian Public Works Project and the recent residential reuse of structures that began in 1970 as the canal was replaced by the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Describe the primary challenges of the Forges de Montréal for both its successful re-use of the Riverside pumping station as well as its production, teaching, and demonstration of forging and small-scale steelmaking to understand the history of the blacksmith's trade in the region.
Assess the functionality and design of the locks along the canal as they were established and modified in the expansions and draught improvements of the canal to accommodate larger and more frequent ships.