
Justin Bur has a dual background in urban studies (M.Urb., Université de Montréal 1994) and in computer science (M.Sc., Université de Montréal 1989). After working as a software developer for over twenty years, while in parallel devoting his attention to the railway history of Montreal and the historical evolution of the Mile End area, he entered the Ph.D. program in urban studies at UQAM in 2016 in order to focus on the historical development of Montreal neighborhoods.
His thesis project, with Dany Fougères as adviser, is titled La banlieue électrique de Montréal: vie, travail et transports dans un nouveau quartier, 1895–1935 (Montreal's electric suburbs: life, work and mobility in a new neighborhood). Between the beginning of electric streetcar service in Montreal in September 1892 and the Great Depression of the 1930s, the city's growth was rapid and sustained. During this time, the neighborhoods that are now considered typical of Montreal were built, with their two- and three-storey rowhouses containing superposed flats, usually with outdoor stairways. The first half of the period is the time when streetcars were the dominant form of urban transit; the second half is the time when the automobile started taking over. The project aims to understand the mechanisms of development on the urban fringe, the reasons for the choice of building types, and the relationship between development and streetcar routes.
Since 2008, he has been an active member of local history groups Mile End Memories and the Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard. He is also a Montreal tour guide.
Documents
Sessions in which Justin Bur participates
- Commémoration virtuelle d’un patrimoine industriel perdu : la gare du Mile End UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Justin Bur (UQAM) | Speaker Nathalie Charbonneau (Atelier Mobile 3D) |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Industry rediscovered: technical knowledge as critical to understanding industrial sites in Eastern Canada I
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Sessions in which Justin Bur attends
- Book launch: Deindustrializing Montreal
- Signup required Bâtiment 7 - La Taverne
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 2 hours
- Event
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
- Word of Welcome UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Event
- Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Roundtable
- Industrial heritages to discover: current research I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- À la recherche d’un patrimoine énergétique montréalais UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- Presenter Clarence Hatton-Proulx |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Industrial heritages to discover: current research I
- Paper
- Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Industry rediscovered: technical knowledge as critical to understanding industrial sites in Eastern Canada I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Black diamond heritage : a pacific region comparative study of coal mining preservation UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Speaker Dr. Barry L. Stiefel (College of Charleston) |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas IV
- Paper
- Industry rediscovered: Technical knowledge as critical to understanding industrial sites in Eastern Canada II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- The ''first link'' between the two shores: the technical challenge of the Quebec Bridge in 1901 UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Jean Desbiens (Université Laval) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Industry rediscovered: Technical knowledge as critical to understanding industrial sites in Eastern Canada II
- Paper
- 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- At the Intersection of memory loss and community creativity: The deindustrialization of the former railway workshops in Pointe St. Charles UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Andrew Elliott (Library and Archives Canada) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Industry rediscovered: Technical knowledge as critical to understanding industrial sites in Eastern Canada II
- Paper
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- The Soulanges Canal: an impressive technical heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- Speaker Luc Noppen (Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge II
- Paper
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Big-data geospatial heritage infrastructures and industrial heritage
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R910 (access from the metro floor)
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop
- Notre pain quotidien. Le patrimoine de l’industrie du pain depuis le 19e siècle UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
- Signup required Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
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Écomusée du fier mondeSponsor
- TICCIH National Representatives first roundtable: Belgium (Vlaanderen/Wallonie), Brazil, Quebec, Chile UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- Presenter 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) |
- 9:10 AM - 9:45 AM | 35 minutes Part of: TICCIH National representatives session
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée