The art deco building on Mont-Royal
The elegant art deco building on Mont-Royal at Henri-Julien has been the headquarters of Jeunesses musicales for years, but was originally built as a pioneering prenatal clinic for the area in 1935. I have no information who designed the building.
The Journal has been doing a regular “this week in history” piece, but they’ve puzzled me this weekend by listing the notorious burning of the parliament building as taking place on May 10, 1844. Wikipedia says it was April 25, 1849. Other sources I’ve found, including the website of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian Encyclopedia, concur on the 1849 date. Anyone know if there’s actually a disagreement on when it happened, or is this just an error?
Robert Tyler Wood 10:35 on 2019-05-05 Permalink
I believe the 1844 date is referring to when the parliament moved from Kingston to the building here in Montreal that would eventually be destroyed.
Robert Tyler Wood 10:44 on 2019-05-05 Permalink
The architect for the Laurier/Siegler clinic is Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh according to UdM. Source:
https://calypso.bib.umontreal.ca/digital/collection/_diame/id/7827/
Yves Desjardins 10:50 on 2019-05-05 Permalink
Bonjour Kate, c’est bien Fethersonaught. Plus de détails sur cet édifice à la p. 82 du Dictionnaire historique du Plateau Mont-Royal, où tu as toi même écrit un des articles 🙂 Je regrette seulement que le Centre d’histoire ne cite pas ses sources lorsqu’ils rappellent le rôle important joué par Max Seigler dans la création de cette clinique.
Kate 13:39 on 2019-05-05 Permalink
Robert Tyler Wood, thanks for the data. Yves, vous êtes correct – je n’ai jamais consulté un livre!