A scientific article entitled “Remember asbestos: heritage architecture and entanglement in Thetford, Quebec” was published in The Company Journal for the Study of Architecture in Canada. The authors Samuel Dubois and Heather Braidé explore the history of the city’s built environment.
The latter more precisely propose a comparative analysis of the two highest buildings in the historic city center of Thetford, the Catholic church of Saint-Alphonse and the horse of the old King Brothers mine. This study shows that these two places of memory – of great importance for the local and regional community – are deeply linked to the heritage, architectural and territorial levels.
The article is available free of charge on the erudite platform: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/jssac/2024-v49-n1-jssac09751/1115137ar/.
About authors
Born in Thetford Mines, Samuel Dubois is an architect (OAQ) and geographer by training with several years of experience in private practice in Canada and internationally, notably in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Since 2020, he has been a doctoral candidate in history, theory and criticism of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. His research is the confluence of architecture, regional planning and identity issues in various rural communities and historically marginalized in Quebec and Canada. His research projects have received the generous financial support from the MIT Presidential Fellowship, the Canadian Center for Architecture and the Human Sciences Research Council of Canada, both in control and in doctorate.
Heather Braiden is landscape architect and assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Montreal. She is a founding member of the land | Terre Design Research Network and played a decisive role in developing the BTECH program in landscape architecture at Dalhousie University. His research focuses on the rehabilitation of the “recovery” of the post-industrial landscapes of Canada and on the pedagogy of design. Heather would like to thank the Canada Human Sciences Research Council for having offered it financial support as part of the Developing Frameworks for Climate Positive Design: Case Study of Extraction and Processing Industries in Nova Scotia and Quebec, as well as landscape architecture students from the University of Montreal, Marie-Pierre Turcot and Lucas Schramiak research.
