Legacy and Honors
Extensive archeological work in Montreal has revealed the 1,000-year history of human habitation on the site. In 1992 a new museum, Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal Museum of Archeology and History, opened here to preserve the archeology and mark new understandings of the city and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians.
Major exhibits have displayed the increasing knowledge about the St. Lawrence Iroquoians:
- 1992, Wrapped in the Colours of the Earth. Cultural Heritage of the First Nations, McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec
- 2006-2007, The Saint Lawrence Iroquoians. Corn People, Pointe à Callière, Montreal Museum of Archeology and History, Montreal, Quebec. (The exhibition catalogue was published as a book under the same name.)
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