From Quincy Market In Boston To St. Ann's Market In Montréal: The Architectural Genesis Of Montréal’s First Covered Market

Summary

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 1832, a few years after Quincy Market was built, Montréal erected its first covered market, inspired by the architecture of its Boston counterpart. The market, Montréal’s largest public building at the time, housed the Parliament of the United Province of Canada starting in 1844, but burned down in 1849. From 2010 to 2017, Pointe-à-Callière, the Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, carried out a program of archaeological digs on this Old Montréal site. In this presentation, a comparative analysis of the original construction documents, historical images and archaeological remains of this large building erected on top of a canalized river, allows us to make some assumptions about the building’s actual appearance, from its Bostonian influences to the ornamental details on its façade. This is an opportunity to take a new look at one of Montréal’s largest archaeological dig campaigns of the past decade and one of the city’s iconic sites.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• 2020 SHA General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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PaperId(s): 597