The Festival d’histoire de Montréal (FHM) returns for the second year with nearly 50 activities and events on offer, most of which are free, from May 13 to 15, at several museums and historic sites in the city.
Faced with a typically fairly scattered offer, FHM presented itself as a rallying point where 14 Montreal history museums and 36 organizations come together for a weekend.
What we offer is a kind of history buffet for all tastes. We see that the story is more and more popular in the media, but it is often difficult to have access to it over the years because it is somewhat dispersed.explanation by Jean-François Leclerc, historian, museologist and president of the festival’s programming committee.
Activities, mainly face -to -face, but also virtual, include conferences, tours to explore the city and activities separated by themes: storytelling, playing, witnessing, seeing, touching, dancing, singing and listening to the story.
New this year: a section titled History in podcasts and podcasts, featuring podcasts on specific topics produced by museums, historical societies, historians or historians.
People can discover these podcasts from the comfort of their homes, but FHM invites the public to listen to them by walking through neighborhoods whose history they are re -tracing, followed by a map or sound indications.
The Bronx of Montreal and the trees of Mount Royal
For example, Société historique Cavelier-de-LaSalle offers two thirty-minute podcasts focused on a neighborhood in the LaSalle borough known as the Bronx of Montreal. (New window)due to the purchase of several lots in this area, in 1919, by New York brokers, in the vicinity of Broadway Street.
Located across the river from Lachine and also known as Village des Rapides, this place has witnessed, since the 18th century, great social change in our time, the evolution of Montreal, Quebec and Americacompany explanation.
In the same vein, the organization Portrait sonore is offering Friday, at 9:30 am, a sound immersion in Mount Royal titled At the root of the treereturning to the park’s origins and wondering what the many trees it shelters can teach us.
The walk of about 2h30 will be done in the presence of the designer of the podcast, according to the words of those close to these trees: landscapers, botanists, herbalists, designers and poets. People who want to participate can register for free on the FHM website. (New window).
The Assassin’s Creed series of games under the magnifying glass of history
The Playing history section suggests dealing with the subject in a fun way, for example in an online game inspired by books in which you are the hero and created by Maison Saint-Gabriel.
There is a right Crime in New France – La Pointe under investigation, the game puts Internet users in the position of the prosecutor of the king of Ville-Marie, in October 1671 in Montreal, who must explain the circumstances of a robbery on the Pointe farm, now the Maison Saint-Gabriel. The game will be available for free from May 13 on the museum website (New window).
Also as part of the Playing with History portion, the Pointe-à-Callière Museum will host a conference with a dozen historians consulted by Ubisoft during the creation of several games in the Assassin’s Creed series. .
Hosted by education science professors Marc-André Éthier and David Lefrançois, the conference will try to answer questions such as can we trust historical representations in a video game?
The event will be held on May 14 at 4 pm at the museum’s Espace 360 ° COGECO. Some tickets are still available for $ 7 at the Le point de vente site. (New window).
For the complete program of the second FHM, go to the festival website (New window).
This text was written from an interview conducted by Catherine Richer, cultural columnist on the show 15-18. Comments may have been edited for clarity or brevity.
Source: Radio-Canada
