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Montréal (Place d'Armes) : Fouilles archéologiques / Edgar Gariépy . - septembre 1933
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Montréal (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 des poutres de bois installées dans le trou creusé sur la place d'Armes à Montréal, probablement pour la construction des vespasiennes, afin de soutenir la structure. On y voit une partie du monument dédié à Maisonnneuve. La pièce porte la cote G-2634.
In the picture
Construction SiteExcavationHistoric SiteLumberMontrealMonumentPublic SquareScaffoldingStatueStreetStreetcarTagged 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 ; 6,1 x 9,4 cm.
What the image shows
A black-and-white photograph looking down into a deep excavation, with a grid of heavy timber shoring beams and diagonal braces holding up the trench walls. Above the pit, a tall stone obelisk-style monument stands on a pedestal flanked by two bronze figures, with a multi-storey stone building with arched windows behind it. At the upper right, a tram or streetcar sits beside stacked lumber and a pile of earth, and workers and a few figures are visible at the edges of the site.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Harvested
2026-10-15T15:38:08Z · source datestamp n/a · ead

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