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Author Monteyne, David, author.

Title For the temporary accommodation of settlers : architecture and immigrant reception in Canada, 1870-1930 / David Monteyne
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Contents "For the temporary accommodation of settlers" -- Dominion government pier buildings : immigrants arrive in Canadian ports -- Coastal quarantine stations and defence against disease -- Heading west : early immigration halls -- Prairie immigration halls in a new era of reception -- Canadian immigration architectures of inspection, detention, and deportation
Summary "For immigrants making the transoceanic journey from Europe or Asia to North America, the experience of a new country began when they disembarked. In Canada the federal government built a network of buildings that provided newcomers with shelter, services, and state support. "Immigration sheds" such as Pier 21 in Halifax -- where ocean liners would dock and global migrants arrived and were processed -- had many counterparts across the country: new arrivals were accommodated or incarcerated at reception halls, quarantine stations, and immigrant detention hospitals. For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers reconstructs the experiences of people in these spaces -- both immigrants and government agents -- to pose a question at the heart of architectural thinking: how is meaning produced in the built environments that we encounter? David Monteyne interprets official governmental intentions and policy goals embodied by the architecture of immigration but foregrounds the unofficial, informal practices of people who negotiated these spaces to satisfy basic needs, ensure the safety of their families, learn about land and job opportunities, and ultimately arrive at their destinations. The extent of this Canadian network, which peaked in the early twentieth century at over sixty different sites, and the range of building types that comprised it are unique among immigrant-receiving nations in this period. In our era of pandemic quarantine and migrant detention facilities, For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers offers new ways of seeing and thinking about the historical processes of immigration, challenging readers to consider government architecture and the experience of migrants across global networks."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes David Monteyne is associate professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary
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Subject Architecture and society -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Architecture and society -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Architecture and state -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Architecture and state -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Immigrants -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Immigrants -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Architecture and society
Architecture and state
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
SUBJECT Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Subject Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780228007555
0228007550
Other Titles Architecture and immigrant reception in Canada, 1870-1930