{"id":688447,"date":"2025-04-14T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veq.ca\/event\/building-our-community-architecture\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:35:34","slug":"building-our-community-architecture","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/veq.pigecommunication.com\/fr\/event\/building-our-community-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Our Community: Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come enjoy our historical talk series\u00a0<em>Building our Community<\/em>, where we will take a look at the past, present and, in some cases, future of the English-language community institutions that have contributed to the development of Quebec city. From our past educational institutions to our modern medical institutions and so much more, our community has a lot of history to share! Come one and all to meet our specialists and learn more about how our community evolved and came to be through its intitutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Mendel, who retired as President of Mendel Tours in 2019, studied at York University in Toronto and at the University of Paris, before moving to Quebec City in 1976. After completing a master\u2019s thesis in Art History and undertaking doctoral studies at Laval University, he became co-founder of Mendel Tours in 1984. He is often called upon to give talks about the history of Quebec at international conferences and has given numerous tours of the city for visiting dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Quebec\u2019s historic district since 1976, he is very involved in preservation issues. He is President of the Foundation of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity \u2500 the first Anglican Cathedral to have been built outside the British Isles. He is the author of a best-selling series of guidebooks devoted to Quebec City and its surrounding region:\u00a0<em>Quebec: World Heritage City\u00a0<\/em>(2009);\u00a0<em>Quebec, Birthplace of New France<\/em>\u00a0(2012);\u00a0<em>The Seminary of Quebec, A Living Heritage<\/em>\u00a0(2013);\u00a0<em>Cathedral of the Holy Trinity<\/em>\u00a0(2015);\u00a0<em>Le Ch\u00e2teau Frontenac, in the Heart of Old Quebec<\/em>\u00a0(2018); and co-author, with Fran\u00e7ois Tremblay and Judy Bross, of\u00a0<em>Charlevoix, a Tradition of Hospitality<\/em>\u00a0(2018).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.evbuc.com\/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F686142229%2F419191540179%2F1%2Foriginal.20240130-201614?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=7c65b2b022e5cb016c2097462c84fe54\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Venez profiter d&#8217;une s\u00e9rie de pr\u00e9sentations historiques dans le cadre de notre projet\u00a0<em>Construire notre communaut\u00e9<\/em>. Nous y parlerons du pass\u00e9, du pr\u00e9sent, et m\u00eame parfois du futur des institutions de la communaut\u00e9 de langue anglaise qui ont contribu\u00e9 au d\u00e9veloppement de la ville de Qu\u00e9bec. De nos anciennes institutions \u00e9ducatives \u00e0 nos institutions m\u00e9dicales modernes et bien plus, notre communaut\u00e9 \u00e0 beaucoup d&#8217;histoire \u00e0 partager ! Venez rencontrer nos sp\u00e9cialistes et apprenez-en plus sur la fa\u00e7on dont notre communaut\u00e9 a grandit et \u00e9volu\u00e9 \u00e0 travers ses institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notre invit\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Mendel, qui a pris sa retraite comme pr\u00e9sident de Mendel Tours en 2019, a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 \u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 York \u00e0 Toronto et \u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de Paris avant de s&#8217;installer \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec en 1976. Apr\u00e8s avoir compl\u00e9t\u00e9 une th\u00e8se de ma\u00eetrise en histoire de l&#8217;art et entrepris des \u00e9tudes doctorales \u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Laval, il est devenu co-fondateur de Mendel Tours en 1984. Il est souvent appel\u00e9 \u00e0 donner des pr\u00e9sentations sur l&#8217;histoire du Qu\u00e9bec lors de conf\u00e9rences internationales et a donn\u00e9 de nombreuses visites guid\u00e9es de la ville \u00e0 des dignitaires en visite.<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9sident de l\u2019arrondissement historique de Qu\u00e9bec depuis 1976, il est tr\u00e8s impliqu\u00e9 dans les enjeux de pr\u00e9servation. Il est pr\u00e9sident de la Fondation de la Cath\u00e9drale Holy Trinity, la premi\u00e8re cath\u00e9drale anglicane construite en dehors des \u00eeles britanniques. Il est l&#8217;auteur d&#8217;une s\u00e9rie de guides \u00e0 succ\u00e8s consacr\u00e9s \u00e0 la ville de Qu\u00e9bec et \u00e0 sa r\u00e9gion :<em>\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec : Ville du patrimoine mondial<\/em>\u00a0(2009) ;\u00a0<em>Qu\u00e9bec, berceau de la Nouvelle-France<\/em>\u00a0(2012);\u00a0<em>Le S\u00e9minaire de Qu\u00e9bec, un patrimoine vivant<\/em>\u00a0(2013);\u00a0<em>Cath\u00e9drale de la Sainte Trinit\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0(2015) ;\u00a0<em>Le Ch\u00e2teau Frontenac, au coeur du Vieux-Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>\u00a0(2018); et co-auteur, avec Fran\u00e7ois Tremblay et Judy Bross, de\u00a0<em>Charlevoix, une tradition d&#8217;hospitalit\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0(2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come enjoy our historical talk series\u00a0Building our Community, where we will take a look at the past, present and, in some cases, future of the English-language community institutions that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-688447","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Building Our Community: Architecture &#8212; 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