The Montreal History Group is happy to welcome Olivier Beaulieu! Olivier Beaulieu is a student in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Supervised by Magda Fahrni (UQAM) and Clarence Hatton Proulx (UdeM), his research focuses on working-class suburbs in post-World War II Quebec. Unlike pre-war suburbs, post-war suburbs are generally […]

Camille Robert (Université de Montréal) is the recipient of the Eugene-A.-Forsey prize, awarded for the best graduate thesis on labour and working-class history in Canada. “Camille Robert’s dissertation, Les travailleuses de l’éducation et de la santé face au tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois (1980-1990), is an inspired and insightful study of an often-overlooked decade in […]

Samia Dumais (Concordia University) and Magda Fahrni (Université du Québec à Montréal) contributed to the forum surrounding historian Joy Parr’s book, The Gender of Breadwinners, published in the Canadian Historical Review. Alongside Nancy Janoviček, Sarah Carter, and Peter Gossage, Dumais and Fahrni share the impact of Parr’s book on their own research. “Parr’s award-winning book […]

Several members of the GHM were recognized during the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada. Brian Gettler (University of Toronto) is the recipient of the Best Scholarly Article in Canadian Business History, for the article ” “The Vincent-Picard Family’s Investments: Wendat Wealth and Notarized Contracts in the Mid-Nineteenth Century“, […]

Several members of the GHM were recognized during the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada Amanda Ricci (York University) received an honorable mention for the Hilda Neatby Prize, English Language Article, for her article “Feminists Confront the Neoliberal Turn: The Third United Nations World Conference on Women, Nairobi, 1985,” […]