unconscious endeavours

Pointe-à-Callière

I went to the Patrimonial Direction (not too sure what it means in English, just got refered to this dept..supposedly to take care of arhaeological sites or something under the city) the other day, talked with the librarian for 2 hours or so and then she suggested that I should go check out the Pointe-à-Callière museum of archaeology and history as it's linked to my site and the sewage collector ( part of the archaeological remains on my site) runs past it too. So I did. I visited the muesum yesterday though I almost wanted to just give it a miss because I was there during my first year with the class and no doubt that the building was interesting, I was just moving so quickly through the muesum because I was bored by the history then. Afterall, every country has got their own history. I wasn't even part of Montreal. Why will I care so much about their history? Then, this time round, when I went walking round once more, the feeling was very different. I was reading through every bit of information and for once, I felt that I was reading a story book except that my body was moving. There was never at any point when I had felt bored. I felt that I could understand and relate to what it was talking about now. Places, buildings that were major sites of historical events were all familiar to me. I am glad that I went to visit the muesum again. It was pretty inspiring for my thesis in a way as it also held archealogical remains as part of the muesum.







The Sewage Collector that runs through my site, Place d'Youville

posted by shuugi @ 7:51 PM