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  5. Montréal (Place d'Armes) : creusage d'un puits de la Place d'Armes. Fouilles archéologiques. / Edgar Gariépy. - Septembre 1933.
Montréal (Place d'Armes) : creusage d'un puits de la Place d'Armes. Fouilles archéologiques. / Edgar Gariépy. - Septembre 1933.
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Montréal (Place d'Armes) : creusage d'un puits de la Place d'Armes. Fouilles archéologiques. / Edgar Gariépy. - Septembre 1933.

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Ville de Montréal. Section des archives via Archives de Montréal (Ville de Montréal)
Dates
Septembre 1933 (indexed as 1933)
Level
item
Scope & content
Photographie du trou creusé sur la place d'Armes à Montréal, probablement pour la construction des vespasiennes. On y voit le monument dédié à Maisonneuve, une cabane de chantier et un édifice à l'arrière-plan. La pièce porte la cote G-2631.
In the picture
Construction SiteExcavationLumberMonumentOffice BuildingPublic SquareRubbleSculptureShedStone MasonryStreet LampStreetscapeWorkerTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Location
  • place d' Armes · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “Place d'Armes”

Where

place d' ArmesCorrect the locationNearby on the big map

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Extent
1 photographie : négatif sur pellicule de nitrate de cellulose; 12 x 17,2 cm.
Format
Photograph
What the image shows
A black-and-white photograph looking down into a deep excavation pit in a city square, with the pit walls braced by criss-crossed timber shoring and a plank walkway along its top edge. Behind the pit stands a tall stone monument with sculpted figures near its base, beside a large multi-storey masonry building with arched windows and a tram or vehicle at street level. A small wooden site shed and a figure working in the trench at lower left, with stacked stones and rubble on the pit floor, complete the scene.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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2026-10-15T15:38:08Z · source datestamp n/a · ead

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