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Montreal’s history brought to life at Pointe-à-Callière museum

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Gail Dever

The Montreal museum of archaelogy and history, Pointe-à-Callière, has launched a “new spectacular multimedia experience of Montreal’s history.” Projected in a one-of-a-kind room over a large space overlooking archaeological ruins, the multimedia show Generations MTL brings the city’s history to life. Like a time … Continue reading →

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Remains of Montreal’s first European settlement to be unveiled next year

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Gail Dever

After years of research, officials at Montreal’s archaeology and history museum, Pointe-à-Callière, say they are now able to pinpoint the precise location of the city’s first European settlement. Although archaeologists have been digging the Fort Ville-Marie site since 2002, a … Continue reading →

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Uncovering Montreal’s birthplace, the Fort of Ville-Marie

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Gail Dever

Since 2002, archaeologists have been working on a dig at Place D’Youville to uncover the remains of the Fort of Ville-Marie, Montreal’s birthplace. The site holds the fort’s remains that will help archaeologists and historians better understand the city’s earliest … Continue reading →

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Montreal’s Pointe-à-Callière museum welcomes world première of Ancient Greece exhibition

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Gail Dever

If you have traced your ancestry back thousands of years to Alexander the Great and Ancient Greece — or not — the new exhibition at the Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal’s Museum of Archaeology and History, is bound to interest genealogists and many … Continue reading →

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Pointe-à-Callière launches The Great Peace of Montréal exhibit

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Gail Dever

Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal’s museum of archaeology and history, announced Monday that it has added to its collection the work entitled 1701. The Great Peace of Montréal by artist Nicolas Sollogoub. The following is from the museum’s news release: The magnificent glass … Continue reading →

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Montreal’s 18th-century public market offers unique opportunity

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Gail Dever

Next weekend, August 23 and 24, take a trip back to Montreal’s first public marketplace in 1750. The Pointe-à-Callière museum offers visitors a unique opportunity in Old Montreal to taste authentic 18th-century products and goods, listen to storytellers and musicians, see people dressed … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Montreal!

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Gail Dever

Joyeux anniversaire, Montréal! On this day — May 17 — 372 years ago, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance founded Montreal, then known as Ville-Marie. Plans are already underway for a memorable 375th anniversary in 2017. One initiative I … Continue reading →

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