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An Industrial Landscape Observed: The Lachine Canal

Exhibition, Octagonal gallery, 15 July 1992 to 22 November 1992

Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry.

Fifteen years after the waterway closed, the CCA commissioned the documentation of its changing landscape. The area’s industrial buildings and topography, from Montreal’s Old Port to the municipality of Lachine, and its relationship to the city are recorded by the two artists during different seasons of the year. The exhibition creates a kind of temporal overlapping which, by relating the past to the present, aims to stimulate reflection, improve understanding, and instigate more effective interventions in the industrial landscape.

Curated by Louise Désy, CCA, with Jean Bélisle, Concordia University.

David Miller. View of the Canadian National Port Bridge and Canadian National Wellington Bridge looking south from the control tower, Montréal, Québec. 1985

Clara Gutsche. Interior view of the Canadian Switch & Spring Company Building showing the former pit (now a catchment for waste water), Montréal, Québec. 1985

David Miller. View of the Northern Electric Company Building looking south from the roof of the Belding Corticelli Spinning Mill, Montréal, Québec. 1985

David Miller. View of the Redpath Sugar Refinery looking east from the roof of the Belding Corticelli Spinning Mill with Lachine Canal and downtown Montréal in the background, Montréal, Québec.1985

David Miller. View of the workshops of the Belding Corticelli Spinning Mill looking west from the roof, Montréal, Québec. 1985

Clara Gutsche. Interior view of workshops on the fourth floor of the Belding Corticelli Spinning Mill, Montréal, Québec.1985

Clara Gutsche. Interior view of the Caledonian Ironworks Building showing an empty room on the upper floor, Montréal, Québec.1985

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