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Book SynopsisTrade Review“For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers will appeal to a wide readership. Scholars of architectural history and vernacular landscape studies will be attracted to the book’s methodological rigour and its attention to a set of understudied building types, as will scholars of Canadian studies. The topic is timely and will reach readers eager to bring an understanding of history to bear on current debates about illegal immigration and concerns about policing national borders; a chapter on the lived experience of those detained in nineteenth-century quarantine stations has specific resonance in troubling times.” Abigail A. Van Slyck, A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960
“Monteyne deftly moves from close analysis of visual material to a wide array of voices found in memoirs, letters, internal departmental correspondence, and parliamentary debate. His introduction situates his work within vernacular architectural studies and frames his study wisely around Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space. Indeed, by invoking Lefebvre he establishes a broad field of important players, including not only government officials and the buildings themselves, but also the migrants who briefly inhabited the sites. This creates a richly textured study of the best kind in architectural history – one that allows readers to imagine the use and longer life of these spaces in an evocative and thought-provoking manner. We come away with an understanding of the intentions behind the design of the sites, the experience of them, the shortcomings of the architecture, and the way buildings were adapted and developed over time to meet changing needs.” Michael Windover, author of Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility
"This book is sure to shape future studies not only of immigration architecture or institutional architecture broadly but also of the ways in which architecture acquires meaning. Highly recommended." Choice
“... un livre magnifique ... esthétiquement plaisant, riche en idées, et l’argument principal peut servir de métaphore pour l’étude de la migration de manière plus générale. L’analyse, riche et pénétrante, et l’éventail des sources utilisées font que ce livre primé intéressera les spécialistes de la migration, de l’histoire du Canada, de l’histoire locale et de l’architecture, ainsi que les étudiants de premier et deuxième cycles. Il apporte une contribution essentielle à l’histoire de l’environnement bâti et à l’histoire de la migration, amenant les lecteurs à regarder d’une manière nouvelle leur propre environnement et l’histoire de la mobilité et du peuplement.” Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
