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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.
Dec 16, 2017 · Jacques Cartier arrived on Oct. 2, 1535, welcomed with open arms by Indigenous Peoples whom archeologists describe as Iroquoians. Cartier visited a village called Hochelaga. He climbed a...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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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.