Skip to main page content

Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge II

My Session Status

What:
Regular session
When:
11:00 AM, miércoles 31 ago 2022 (1 hour 30 minutos)
Breaks:
Lunch   12:30 PM to 01:30 PM (1 hour)

North America has a large number of historic canals, which have been closed to commercial shipping due in part to the evolution of transportation (higher tonnage ships, trains, trucks, etc.). While some historic canals have been filled in, forgotten or disused, many have survived, in whole or in part, becoming attractive heritage sites. For some of these, the challenge is to reconcile the preservation of historic components with the need to keep their waterway accessible to navigation. This session will explore preservation modes (architectural, landscape, archaeological, etc.), new uses, and the interpretation of heritage sites that have been redeveloped in order to ensure their sustainability. This session also aims to explore, through some recent projects, new perspectives for historic canals facing the stakes and challenges of the 21st century. In so doing, beyond the North American situation, this session is designed to reflect on the situation of canals throughout the world. 

Please note that this session goes in pair with an actual visit of a waterway,  the Soulanges canal. Participants will be transported by bus to the site. This half-day visit will be concluded with a cocktail at the Ateliers du canal de Soulanges, at Pointe-des-Cascades. Return to Montreal is scheduled at 7:30. Participants are required to register to the visit (please select that session in your schedule).

 

Sub Sessions

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutos

Designed in 1889 and built from 1890 to 1902, the Soulanges Canal offered a series of technical innovations that made it famous at the time.The engineer Thomas Monro (1831-1903), responsible for this vast project (design and construction), based on his experience acquired notably during the construction of the Welland Canal (which he designed and supervised from 1870 to 1888) and through the detailed report he made of his visit to the brand new Manchester Ship Canal in 1891, synthes...

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutos

As an important part of urban civilization, water industry heritage is a dynamic and complex system with very specific characteristics. They are historical witnesses of mankind overcoming resource, environmental, and health crises. Water industry heritage are mostly adjacent to the water source, and some are parts of the historical water systems, which makes them vulnerable to natural disasters such as heavy rains, floods, and hurricanes. Some of th...

My Session Status

Send Feedback

Session detail
Allows attendees to send short textual feedback to the organizer for a session. This is only sent to the organizer and not the speakers.
To respect data privacy rules, this option only displays profiles of attendees who have chosen to share their profile information publicly.

Changes here will affect all session detail pages