Penultimate Quebec City Day

Andreas Paepcke
Jul 28, 2017 · 3 min read

I’m so glad I added the day in QC! Else I’d be riding now. Instead I get to see more today. I seem to have successfully paired my helmet with the new Alcatel Android phone. So my hope is that I’ll find my way out to the transcanada highway without trouble.

The following is all regular touristy material, except maybe the bathroom arrangements in the former prison, and the few minutes in its isolation cell. Also, I tried video and audio. Though I don’t have editing software. So all editing is live by turning recording on/ off. Ergo: lowest possible quality.

Very Cool Museum Technology

The Musee du Fort is an underground museum amidst the foundation of the former British governor’s residence.

Ice cut from the St. Lawrence River in Winter was kept here. It lasted till next winter, keeping enough food fresh for many large banquets.
Annual ice cutting
How it worked.
The corsets removing enough lung capacity that ladies fainted, requiring ammonia salt fumes for revival. Ah, healthy living.
Kitchen. Several wall fragments, and the fireplace still exist, and you walk around amidst them. Notice the dog in the upper left. When it runs, the pig in its spit rotates in the fireplace.

Interactive 3D Models

Several manipulable models are part of walk through the ruins. Very well done!

They created a lot of interesting and intuitive museum technology. This is (a few seconds of) video of me operating a 3D model. Notice that at the top is a timeline. Selecting one of these times changes the model accordingly (not in the video)

Not All “Do Not Touch!”

Lots of items to touch. Here for the adults…

I loved that it’s not all “Do not touch” You get to rummage around period clothing.

And an entire area for kids to be archeologists. These are the former latrines. They were revealing to archeologists in that servants dumped broken items and other debris into them. Many household items of the various time periods were thus discovered. (Not sure I want to be an archeologist after learning this).

They created a digging pit with shovels for kids to find shards, and to put them together like a puzzle.

Former latrine pits. Kids get to find shards, and put them together (see found items on the bench). The pit was always busy with kids. They were crazy for this activity.

Bravado

Zoom in to the writing in the image below. I am storing this expression away. I can’t wait to use it one day! Unfortunately, the British won, I believe.

French bravado.

Multiple Uses Over the Centuries

Several interesting buildings that changed use:

La Maison Morrin went from prison to college to club for white, rich guys to discuss stuff, to library.

Prison:

Hard to photograph in a prison of the time. Light was not at a premium. But this is the dining room (tables are out of the frame). This opening was a shaft that went up to the fourth floor. That 4th floor housed debtors, 3rd floor light offenses, and so on down to here where murderers lived. The shaft was the toilet for all stories. Everything accumulated in a pit a bit further down from here. The smell was intended as part of the punishment. You needed to know this, didn’t you?

College:

Beliefs about the seat of various capabilities in the 19th C. Maybe 100 years from now our FMRIs will be on exhibits like this.

This church is now a library. Beautifully done:

Church turned Library: Reading room and stacks
All (many) windows like this
The computer part of the room

Street Art

Avenue de Cartier: all street lights were done by artists. Each is different. There are many.
Where I waited out a thunderstorm. With French wine (Cabernet-Merlot from Longdoc, France)

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