Goose Village - Marisa Portolese
In 1964, in preparation for Expo 67, the municipal administration decreed the demolition of the neighbourhood to make way for the short-lived Autostade, razing 350 buildings and expropriating 1,500 people. In this exhibition, artist Marisa Portolese tells this tragic story.
Description
This neighbourhood was located between Victoria Bridge and the Lachine Canal. Its population was composed of people of British, Irish, French-Canadian, Scottish and largely Italian origin in the late 1950s.
The exhibition brings together some 100 photographs and archive images as well as a video, offering a chronology from the 1800s to 1964. It also shows the devastated urban landscape where wild vegetation persists.
Photo exhibition by Marisa Portolese, Goose Village.
This neighborhood, demolished in 1964, was home to people of British, Irish, French-Canadian, Scottish and Italian origin.
The story of a tragic history.
In partnership
An event presented as part of "CAM en tournée."
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Montréal, QC H8Z 1X7
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