Category: Past Exhibitions

Trends: 1954-2011

When : Vernissage: Thursday, May 5, 2016, 19:00 to 20:30

             Exhibition:   Monday, May 2 to Friday, May 27, 2016

                                   Contact the library to insure that the Discovery Room will not be occupied at the time of your visit.

Where: Beaconsfield Library, Discovery Room 

            303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield, H9W 4A7

Everyone welcome. Free entrance. 

Information: Contact us

This exhibition, sponsored in parts by the Société historique Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield Historical Society, has been produced by Alexandre Petitpas, student of DESS (Graduate Diploma) in Modern Architecture and Heritage at UQÀM. He prepared this exhibition as a research study during the summer 2015 semester, being interested in the Trend House program and especially in the Beaconsfield Trend House in Beaurepaire.
Precisely five years after the demolition of the Trend House that was located at the corner of Woodland Avenue and Lakeshore Road, Alexandre Petitpas presents: The Trend House Program, The Beaconsfield Trend House, Its Architect Philip P. Goodfellow, The Wood of the West and their Products, West Coast Modern Architecture, Typological Innovations, Technological Innovations and the Modern Interior of the '50s.
To produce this exhibition, he consulted the historical society's documentations and was able to meet with Michael Goodfellow, son of the architect of the Beaconsfield Trend House, Philip P. Goodfellow.

Category: Past Exhibitions

EXPO '67 Canada's Centennial Crown Jewel

When: from Tuesday, September 26 until Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Where: Discovery Room

            Beaconsfield Library

            303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield H9W 4A7

Vernissage: Thursday, September 28, 2017, from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.

Some of the rare items from the collection of Gary W. Sims will constitute the main part of the Expo 67 exhibit at the Beaconsfield Library. He had special access to the Expo 67 site as Press Correspondent for the Lachine Messenger at the age of 17. Gary started collecting Centennial & Expo 67 items at the age of 14.  Items from his collection have been displayed in different venues, including this year at the Biosphere and the Centre d’histoire de Montréal celebrating the 50th anniversary of Expo 67.

Bring your 2017 Expo 67 passport and relive Expo 67 through an immersive experience by getting a special stamp at the vernissage, or at the library desk after Sept. 28^th.

Note: Only paper passports will be stamped as there is no virtual electronic passport support.

You may obtain your free blank paper passport at participating museums.

• McCord Museum
• Stewart Museum
• Centre d’histoire de Montréal