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GARRISON HOUSE [3 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

garrison house : an item in the "Structures" class of the "Built Environment Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

maison de garnison : objet de la classe «Constructions» de la catégorie «Éléments du bâtiment».

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • National History
  • Heritage
OBS

The fashion trend of the day was for the ladies to line their grey cloaks with red velvet, the colours of the British military uniform. In a show of force, [Captain Jonathan] Prescott assembled the women and had them reverse their cloaks and hold their brooms so as the broom handles looked like musket barrels as they marched on the grounds of Capt. Prescott's house. The privateer's thought it was a garrison of British soldiers and wasted no time in hightailing it out of the harbour in their three ships.

Key term(s)
  • Turncoat Victory reenactment
  • reenactment of the Turncoat Victory

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoires nationales
  • Patrimoine
OBS

Le mot anglais «Turncoat» renvoie aux capes que des femmes, des jeunes gens et des personnes âgées de Chester, Nouvelle-Écosse, ont retournées le 30 juin 1782 pour faire croire à des corsaires américains qu'ils étaient des militaires britanniques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Housing
  • Urban Development
CONT

Stanley Park is located just West of Toronto's downtown core. It has a rich variety of building forms and is an excellent urban design case study. It belongs to the old Niagara neighborhood and also is part of the Garrison creek water system. For the first part of the term, the studio dealt with issues of collecting context data, creating a virtual model and eventually designing a small in-fill house intervention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
  • Développement urbain
CONT

Un autre immeuble d'insertion, construit au 3575 rue Sainte-Famille par le même architecte, a également été reconnu par une mention honorable.

OBS

Strictement parlant, on devrait préciser qu'il s'agit d'un immeuble résidentiel.

Spanish

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