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Old cemetery found under Quebec city street PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 27 July 2004
Old cemetery found under Quebec city street
Last Updated Mon, 01 Jul 0026 00:00:26 EST
TROIS-RIVIERES, QUE. - An archeological dig sparked by a Hydro-Québec project in downtown Trois-Rivières has turned up 10 human skeletons from a cemetery dating back to 1650.

The excavation started when the power utility was asked to remove hydro poles and bury electrical wires in the city, which was founded in 1634.

Archeologists were called in to survey the site as the digging progressed.

As well as the skeletons from the cemetery, they found more than 10,000 artifacts, including buttons, bullets and belt buckles.

"It's going to give us a lot of information about the people of that time and the way of life of those people," said Simon Otis, one of the archeologists working on the project.

He said tests performed on the bones can reveal what people in Trois-Rivières ate three centuries ago, as well as the illnesses they had and the kind of work they did.

The remains will be reburied in a local cemetery after the tests are done, and Quebec's Ministry of Culture will get the artifacts.

Denis Désilet of Hydro-Québec said the experience has brought history a lot closer.

"I was more struck with awe to be in contact with somebody who probably lived here two or three hundred years ago," he said.

Work crews have now begun paving over the section of street where the remains were found.

http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/07/26/remains_found040726.html
 
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