La tour Eiffel à Montréal ? Sur quelques projets transatlantiques de commémorations monumentales, 1963–1987

Dominique Trudel ()
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Dominique Trudel: Audencia Business School

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Abstract: In the 1960s, Mayor Jean Drapeau envisioned a monumental tower for Montreal to mark the city's 325th anniversary. After an initial failed attempt to temporarily relocate the Eiffel Tower for the 1967 World's Fair, several alternative tower proposals were considered, particularly through collaborations between Montreal and Paris. The project ultimately came to fruition two decades later with the completion of the Olympic Stadium tower in 1987. Drawing on a conceptualization of towers as media, this research examines these various failures through the lens of three interwoven narratives: the institutional history of these towers, primarily based on archival materials (Archives of the City of Montreal, Schöffer Archives); the media narratives that focused on them; and the different memorial narratives they embody. In doing so, this study contributes to the broader discussion of failures in media history and the complex relationship between media, memory, and history.

Keywords: failures; historiography; memory; Montreal; towers; World’s Fair; échecs; exposition universelle; historiographie; mémoire; monuments; Montréal; tours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-03
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Published in Le Temps des médias. Revue d’histoire, 2026, n° 44 (44), pp.173-192. ⟨10.3917/tdm.044.0175⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/tdm.044.0175

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