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