Grant, George2023-07-132023-07-132023-07-07http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82683This thesis proposes strategies for architecture to redress the impacts of colonization and industrialization that have overshadowed and erased Indigenous narratives from public memory in lands and waters of Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). The thesis questions whether architecture can facilitate reconciliation for Indigenous people and decolonize its extractive ways. Perspectives of Indigenous knowledge and the history embedded in the land inform a design methodology that aims to tell a deeper and more complete story of place, while creating a system and platform for Indigenous storytelling and collective healing. The resulting architecture is a series of seven built interventions including programs of community center, daycare, co-housing, and clinic in the former cradle of Canadian industrialization along the Lachine Canal. The design is positioned as a story of architectural possibilities stanced as solidarity from a settler perspective, that reflects upon truths of colonial trauma, and the potentials of reconciliation over seven generations.enArchitectureReconciliationDecolonizationIndigenousStoryworkLachine CanalMontreal