Quartier Concordia is a neighbourhood redevelopment project centred on Concordia University 's Sir George Williams campus in downtown Montreal , Quebec , Canada . Bordered by Sherbrooke Street , Saint-Mathieu Street, René Lévesque Boulevard and Bishop Street , the district is designed to be a green urban campus that will improve the use and quality of public places and spaces, student life on campus and transportation.
8-522: As part of the redesign, the small Norman Bethune Square has been redesigned and enlarged. Sidewalks in the area will also be widened, with additional trees. Within the area is Grey Nuns Motherhouse , a student residence. As of September 2010, a tunnel links the university's Hall and J.W. McConnell buildings with the Guy-Concordia metro station . The hallway was completed in Spring 2010. However,
16-621: A number of ground-breaking medical instruments against tuberculosis . During the Great Depression , Bethune worked with Lea Roback and others to open a public clinic for the unemployed and poor as party of his cross-Canada advocacy for socialized medicine or public health care . After joining the Communist Party of Canada , he traveled to Spain as part of the International Brigades where he created one of
24-472: A project to create a green space on Mackay Street was put on hold. Completed in 2009, the Quartier Concordia project was the result of an architectural competition held by Concordia in 2001, the winning designers of which were those at the architectural firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) , in joint-venture with Fichten Soiferman et Associés Architectes. The project comprises
32-678: A rehousing of three of Concordia's schools: Engineering, Computer Science (ENCS), Visual Arts (VA) and the John Molson School of Business (JMSB). The architectural plans for this project are held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture . Norman Bethune Square Norman Bethune Square ( French : place Norman-Bethune ) is a small urban square located in Downtown Montreal at the northwest intersection of Guy Street and De Maisonneuve Boulevard West . It
40-405: Is located close to Concordia University 's Sir George Williams campus and is opposite the Guy-Concordia metro station. The main feature of the square is the statue of Dr. Norman Bethune , as well as trees, lighting, benches and an expanded sidewalk. Inaugurated on March 23, 1976, Norman Bethune Square is named after Norman Bethune (1890–1939), a Canadian doctor from Montreal . Although he
48-632: The city of Montreal . At the time of the 70th anniversary of the Bethune's participation in the World War II in China, the City of Montreal undertook a major renovation project of the square at a cost of C$ 3 million. The site was under substantial renovations as part of the redevelopment of De Maisonneuve Boulevard. The newly restored statue of Norman Bethune was unveiled on October 14, 2008. The square
56-558: The first mobile blood transfusion services during the Spanish Civil War . Bethune returned to Montreal to campaign for Republican Spain before leaving for China . Between 1938 and 1939, on the eve of World War II , Bethune traveled with the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and he eventually contracted blood poisoning and died in China. The People's Republic of China offered the statue of Norman Bethune to
64-539: Was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario and died in China, Bethune resided in Montreal for eight years, from 1928 to 1936. It was during his stay in Montreal that he became a renowned thoracic surgeon , that his socialist ideas and convictions took shape, guiding him to a profound commitment towards social and humanitarian causes including joining the Communist Party of Canada . While living in the city, Bethune innovated
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