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Aug 21, 2019 · When the sinkhole appears, Asigny’s supervisor, Dr. Antoine Morin obtains an order from Québec’s Ministry of Culture to be allowed to dig, and he hires Asigny to lead an archaeological excavation of the field.
Aug 8, 2024 · In less than ten years, between Cartier’s first and second visit, the vibrant Hochelaga village had vanished. So had the people who had built it. What happened to them?
Observing the development, Morin theorizes that the sinkhole may lead to evidence of Hochelaga, where French explorer Jacques Cartier contacted Indigenous peoples in Quebec in 1535. Morin obtains an order from the Ministry of Culture to be allowed to dig and hires Baptiste to lead an archaeological excavation of the field.
May 9, 2017 · “The presumption is that Hochelaga ceased to exist between 1541 and 1603, possibly circa AD 1580,” Pendergast wrote in 1998. There is evidence in the Jesuit Relations that at least some Hochelagans had a presence in the Montréal area well after the dispersal.
Jun 19, 2017 · He raised the alarm that excavators digging to install a sewer system might be destroying Hochelaga, the Iroquoian village visited by Cartier. As archaeologists went to work, media attention focused on the mystery of Hochelaga’s location.
Feb 17, 2015 · One of the enduring mysteries of Canadian history resurfaced this week when developer Ivanhoé Cambridge halted excavation for a new office tower on de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. between Metcalfe and...
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In his 2017 film, Hochelaga, terre des âmes (Hochelaga, Land of Souls), Québécois filmmaker François Girard delves into the complex history of Montreal. When a sinkhole appears in a football stadium, the site becomes an archaeological dig, led by a Mohawk graduate student at the Université de Montréal.
