Project Title: Social Transformation in Notre Dame de Grâce over the Long Sixties

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Project Title: Social Transformation in Notre Dame de Grâce over the Long Sixties
Abstract
The author examines the changes that took place in the Montreal district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) over the course of the long nineteen sixties. He argues that the suburban order that its leaders strove to maintain in the late 1950s became untenable by the early 1970s, as the community had been transformed by urban development, the Quiet Revolution, the coming of age of the baby-boom generation, and the recognition of the economic and social diversity in the community. He points out that since the NDG did not have a majority of Francophone citizens (20% of the total population), it was characterized as an English-speaking district. He notes that the area was religiously mixed and ethnically diverse, with no single group dominating numerically. Originally developed as a tramway suburb, by the Sixties, NDG was being characterized both as a downtown district and a suburb. The author traces the changes in the district by looking at how the local social organizations adapted or formed. Focus is given to the NDG Community Council, which operated throughout the period under consideration, and to Head & Hands, a youth clinic and drop-in centre that was founded in 1970 to address the needs of young people involved in the mass countercultural movement. The author supplements the existing scholarship by analysing the Sixties through the lens of a middle-class inner suburb, where there was a mixed level of participation in, and resistance to, Quebec’s cultural and social ferment of the time.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
2023
# of Pages
128p.
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en
Citation
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Project Title: Social Transformation in Notre Dame de Grâce over the Long Sixties.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 2023. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/7h149v80k.
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