Alain Gelly

Historian

Parks Canada

Participates in 5 items

Dr. Alain Gelly is historian at Archaeology and History Branch with Parks Canada Agency. After a long career in applied history, where he produced publications on urban, scientific, and heritage history, he began his career at Parks Canada in 1995. During his time at Parks Canada, he has developed an expertise in industrial and cultural heritage while producing reports on economic, military, scientific, and social history. His writings, presentations, and exhibitions testify to the diversity of his fields of interest and expertise..

Sessions in which Alain Gelly participates

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

1:30 PM

Talk: overview of industrial heritage in Canada

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Keynote speaker)

As a "continent” country, in which industrialization began as early as the 19th century, Canada has seen through deindustrialization ...

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge I

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Regular session

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Moderator)

Matthieu Paradis, Agence Parcs Canada (Moderator)

North America has a large number of historic canals, which have been closed to commercial shipping due in part to the evolution of transportatio...

11:00 AM

Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge II

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Regular session

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Moderator)

Matthieu Paradis, Agence Parcs Canada (Moderator)

North America has a large number of historic canals, which have been closed to commercial shipping due in part to the evolution of transportatio...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:00 AM

Early bird tour. Lachine Canal: A walk through history and commemoration or The Lachine Canal: now and then

1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Presenter)

Matthieu Paradis, Agence Parcs Canada (Presenter)

From its construction to its restoration, immerse yourself in the now and then of this key Canadian industrial heritage site. A country’s

Friday 2 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:10 AM

TICCIH National Representatives first roundtable: Belgium (Vlaanderen/Wallonie), Brazil, Quebec, Chile

35 minutes, 9:10 AM - 9:45 AM

Part of: TICCIH National representatives session

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Jean-Louis Delaet, Patrimoine industriel Wallonie-Bruxelles (Presenter)

Maria Beatriz Andreotti, Universidade de São Paulo - IAU USP (Presenter)

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Presenter)

Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Presenter)

Jaime Migone Rettig, TICCIH Chile (Presenter)

Joeri Januarius, Center for Industrial Heritage ETWIE (Presenter)

Sessions in which Alain Gelly attends

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:00 AM

Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Roundtable

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)

11:00 AM

Industrial heritages to discover: current research I

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Regular session

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

1:30 PM

Industrial heritages to discover: current research II

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Regular session

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)

Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

1:00 PM

Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge (III). A tour of the Soulanges Canal

6 hours, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Speaker)

Marianne Sigouin-Lebel (Other Participant)

The Soulanges Canal is an infrastructure, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, which was opened to maritime traffic in 1900, succeedi...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...

11:00 AM

Notre pain quotidien. Le patrimoine de l’industrie du pain depuis le 19e siècle

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420

Regular session

Joanne Burgess, Université du Québec à Montréal (Moderator)

Prof. Claudine Déom, University of Montreal (Moderator)

Geneviève Sicotte, Concordia University (Panelist)

Si le blé occupe une place mythique dans l’histoire de l’industrie au Canada, le pain et la boulangerie n’ont pas suscité le même intérêt. Témoi...

1:30 PM

Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Stefan Berger (Speaker)

This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...

Friday 2 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

3:30 PM

Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)

In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...

6:30 PM

Closing dinner

3 hours, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Available

Usine C - Hall

Repas

Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...