Crossing Boundaries & Constructing Linkages The History of ’s Square Mile in National and International Context McGill University 19-20 June 2019 Day 1 19 June 2019 @ 279 Macdonald Engineering Building Day 2| d 20 June 20199 ff@ 279 Macdonald Engineering Building

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