“Nancy Douglas’ photo and collage project Murphys in Griffintown questions our manipulation of history and memory. Her work will utilized archival and new material–both public and family history–and examine the dismantling of a neighborhood in Montreal.”

How will we mark the place where the fever sheds stood? Where six thousand Irish died of Typhus and were buried in mass graves? Griffintown was populated by labourers: factory workers, train men and domestics. Should anything be saved of a community so fraught with poverty? Nancy Douglas’ photo and collage project Murphys in Griffintown questions our manipulation of history and memory. Her work will utilized archival and new material–both public and family history–and examine the dismantling of a neighbourhood in Montreal.