Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History

This guide to the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History centers on Governor Louis-Hector de Calliere, who in 1695 built his mansion directly atop the ashes of Fort Ville-Marie and the city's first Catholic burial ground. It follows how fires and centuries of rebuilding erased all trace of that house, and how archaeologists spent thirteen years starting in 2002 peeling back the pavement to recover what lay beneath. Listen for whose traces surfaced first, layer by layer, under the glass floor.