Archeologists sift through ruins of Montreal's Pompeii

Louise Pothier describes it as Montreal’s Pompeii.
“In Pompeii, the eruption of Vesuvius froze the city completely in time; here, a fire froze the building in time,” said the Pointe-à-Callière Museum’s chief archeologist on Tuesday.
Pothier was standing over a 1.5-metre deep pit where workers using trowels, buckets and backhoes were digging around the foundations of a building that burned down during a riot on April 25, 1849. 
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