Emerging From Oblivion: The St. Ann’s Market And Parliament Of The United Province Of Canada In Old Montreal
Author(s): Louise Pothier; François Gignac; Hendrik Van Gijseghem
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
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. The archaeological site was the object of a major research project from 2010 to 2019. Thanks to innovative tools, including a geolocation system for artifacts using their horizontal and stratigraphic positions, as well as a 3D reconstruction of the site, our analysis of the archaeological data suggests new ways of thinking about the changes occurring in Canadian architecture and politics in those days. 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.
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Emerging From Oblivion: The St. Ann’s Market And Parliament Of The United Province Of Canada In Old Montreal. Louise Pothier, François Gignac, Hendrik Van Gijseghem. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457418)
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Keywords
General
Architecture
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Digital
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Parliament
Geographic Keywords
Canada
Temporal Keywords
1832-1849
Spatial Coverage
min long: -141.003; min lat: 41.684 ; max long: -52.617; max lat: 83.113 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 710