C.A.R.A. asbl
Centre d'Assistance
à la Recherche et à la
Formation en Architecture

Informations pratiques :

• 16:00 – 18:00 19 March 2013.
• Emplacement Room 517A, Wates House, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB.
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Canadian Immigration Facilities and the Production of Space

Beginning in the mid-19th century, Canadian governments built a network of immigration architecture across the country. “Immigration sheds,” where transoceanic liners would dock, immigrants would be processed, and trains of colonist cars would whisk them away to remote areas of Canada, were complemented by a wide range of quarantine, hostelling, and support facilities in receiving areas. Portions of this network of immigration facilities were in operation, with changes, up to the 1960s when immigrants increasingly arrived by air, and came from farther away…