Museum
McCord Stewart Museum
690 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3A 1E9
History museum built from a debt-ridden collector's fifteen thousand artifacts, traded for a permanent home.
McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal grew out of one collector's decades of persuasion: Montreal lawyer David Ross McCord spent the 1890s and beyond charming donors and dealers out of snowshoes, wampum belts, and family papers rather than paying for them, keeping copies of six hundred twenty-six letters along the way. This guide follows how his obsession outran his fortune, leaving him deep in debt by 1909, and the decade he then spent negotiating with his old university, McGill, to give his fifteen thousand artifacts a permanent home.
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