Over the course of the last few months, undergraduate History students at Concordia enrolled in the “History and Memory in Gentrifying Saint-Henri” course have been thinking through the brutal processes of deindustrialization and gentrification in the St-Henri neighbourhood in Montreal. In collaboration with the À Nous la Malting Collective, a community initiative to convert the neighbourhood’s last abandoned industrial site into social housing, a working-class history museum, and local services, the students have been working on exhibit proposals, interpretative panels, and creative outputs that can help to further this project. Come and see what they’ve been working on! Register here.
Protesting coal miners at the Friedrich Heinrich/Rheinland colliery in the town of Kamp-Lintfort in March 1997. There was a wave of miners' protests in Winter and Spring 1996/97 as the German Federal Government planned to cut subsidies which would have meant a loss of 60,000 jobs in less than ten years. The banner in front says "We want a perspective for our future". Photo: Betriebsrat Bergwerk West. 