Hydro dig finds domestic artifacts

An excavation downtown near the Hydro‑Quebec building turned up evidence that the land had previously had a house on it, and the photos show some bottles and broken plates. Now the site is being archaeologized on.

It always makes me smile a little to see how excited people get about fragments of domestic habitation no more than a couple of hundred years old. There are drawers full of this stuff in the museum storehouse down Peel Street. But it’s not as if we don’t already know who was living here or how they were living in the 18th or 19th centuries. That’s yesterday! Bring me a 3000‑year‑old sword and then we can talk.