Abstract

This thesis explores an archive of photographs by Montreal-based photographer David Wallace Marvin and its potential for reimagining Griffintown, an historically working class neighbourhood and industrial district located near Montreal’s downtown waterfront. Drawing upon sociologist Avery Gordon’s “haunting-as-method,” I examine how David Marvin’s photographs bear traces of a community left out of the histories of Montreal currently in circulation, revealing the imaginative and geographical displacements brought about by more than two centuries of municipal neglect and isolation, eviction, and gentrification.