Une pointe d'histoire
In the Pointe St. Charles neighbourhood of Montreal in the early 1970s, citizen involvement gave rise to a network of community groups. Faced with a difficult economic and social situation, welfare recipients and low-income workers, both French- and English-speaking, pooled their energies to improve their situation. By alternating first-person accounts from four fomrer activists with archival footage of projects in 1970, this documentary paints a living picture of the exemplary involvement of the citizens of Pointe St. Charles. This neighbourhood has survived thanks to solidarity and activism which must constantly be renewed.
Credits
Direction
Françoise Dugré
Sylvie Joly
Participants
Linda Tremblay
Jean-Guy Dutil
Pauline Verreault
Maureen Ryan
Research
Sylvie Joly
Interviews
Sylvie Joly
Camera
Jean-Pierre Saint-Louis
Louis Bélanger
Sound
Colette Loumède
Lucie Guilbert
Editing
Françoise Dugré
Online Editing
Michel Giroux
Music
Guy Bélanger
Jacques Roy
Production
Clinique communautaire de Pointe St-Charles
Technical information
Color
Black and white
Color
Sound
Stereo
Documentation
Images
Keywords
Community, Archives, Past, Memory, Montreal, Pointe-Saint-Charles
Themes