{"id":26130,"date":"2019-09-19T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/collections\/team\/mathieu-lapointe\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:41:04","slug":"mathieu-lapointe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/mathieu-lapointe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu Lapointe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Curator, Textual Archives<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>I enjoy working with archives because reading them brings one face to face with the strange world of the past\u2014its otherness. At the same time, one discovers its vibrant, eloquent humanity and finds unexpected affinities with bygone generations. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Mathieu Lapointe joined the Museum team in 2018 as Curator, Textual Archives. He and his team strive to preserve, develop and promote this collection for the enjoyment of both researchers and the public. Building on projects carried out over the past few years, the department is trying to make the collection more accessible and promote its treasures by digitizing and transcribing archival documents and enhancing their online descriptions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord.qc.ca\/en\/collections\/textual-archives\/shared-emotions\/\"><em>Shared Emotions<\/em><\/a> project, for example, aims to explore the feelings, sensations and values conveyed in these archives and make these elements easier to locate by improving the indexing.<\/p>\n<p>A historian with additional training in information technology (M.L.I.S., Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, 2023), Mathieu Lapointe earned a PhD in Canadian History from York University in Toronto and a master&#8217;s in History from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. As a specialist in Montreal history and Quebec culture and ideologies, he has taken a particular interest in the history of citizen movements, moralizing rhetoric, and public inquiries in 20<sup>th<\/sup> century Montreal. His book <em>Nettoyer Montr\u00e9al\u00a0: les campagnes de moralit\u00e9 publique, 1940-1954<\/em> (Les \u00e9ditions du Septentrion, 2014) was awarded the Prix Robert-Pr\u00e9vost from the Montreal Historical Society and the Prix de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale du Qu\u00e9bec from the Institut d\u2019histoire de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise. His research on the history of corruption and its role in building Montreal&#8217;s reputation led him to produce an historical study for the Charbonneau Commission and collaborate with European researchers.<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked to enhance the public&#8217;s knowledge of Montreal&#8217;s history. In addition to engaging with the media, he helped organize the exhibition <em>Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960<\/em> at the Centre d\u2019histoire de Montr\u00e9al and co-authored the exhibition catalogue, and contributed to the history documentary <em>Downtown: The Age of Lights<\/em> by filmmaker Paul Carvalho.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly the coordinator of the Institut d\u2019histoire de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise, he has taught at Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke and Carrefour BLE in Montreal. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at McGill, a visiting scholar at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), and remains an associate member of McGill\u2019s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/archives\/\">More about the Archives Collection<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/155915\/archives\/objects\">Explore the collection online<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/archives\/list-main-fonds-collections\/\">List of main fonds and collections<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curator, Textual Archives I enjoy working with archives because reading them brings one face to face with the strange world of the past\u2014its otherness. 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