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In 1919, McCord donated his
considerable acquisitions to
McGill University with a view
to establishing a museum of
Canadian social history. That
collection, now more than
1,500,000 artifacts, is housed
in a stately limestone building
that was once a social center
for McGill students.
The museum has a good
section on early history, an
exceptional display of folk
art, and a particularly fine
collection of Aboriginal and
Inuit items, featuring clothing,
weapons, jewelry, and pottery.
A separate room is devoted to
the social history of Montreal. Centre des Sciences de Montréal, with a giant
The museum’s most celebrated molecular sculpture on its entrance steps
possession is a vast collection
of photographs that chronicle
every detail of daily life in IMAX Telus Theater that shows Pointe-Saint-Charles. It was a
19th-century Montreal. educational documentaries in farm when the formid able
3D on its immense screen. Marguerite Bourgeoys,
The price of admission can Montreal’s first schoolteacher
vary greatly depending on the and now a canonized saint,
27 "\-= combination of exhibits and bought it in 1668 as a residence
Centre des Sciences films that you choose to see. for the religious order she had
de Montréal founded in 1655.
The house, rebuilt in 1698
 D2 ⌂ King Edward Pier
£ Central Station @ 715 28 "'\-= after a fire, is a fine example
of 17th-century architecture,
q Place d’Armes # 9am– Maison Saint-Gabriel
4pm Mon–Fri, 10am–5pm with thick stone walls and a
Sat & Sun ∑ montreal  B2 ⌂2146 Place de Dublin steeply pitched roof built on

sciencecentre.com q Charlevoix, Square an intricate frame of original
heavy wooden timbers.
Victoria @ 57, 61 # Mid-
Dominating the Vieux-Port’s Jun–Sep: 1–5pm Mon–Sat; Marguerite Bourgeoys and
King Edward Pier, this huge, Oct–mid-Jun: 10am–5pm her tireless sisters worked the
airy building is home to a Tue–Sun (closed 11:45am– farm and ran a school on the
number of permanent and 12:45pm) ∑ maisonsaint- property for Aboriginal and
temporary exhibitions that gabriel.qc.ca colonial children. They also
focus on techno logy, engi- housed and trained the filles du
neering, and science, as well This isolated fragment of roy (the “king’s daughters”) –
as other subjects. Among New France at first appears orphaned young girls sent
the permanent exhibi tions, lost among the apartment abroad to be the women of
“Water in the Universe” buildings of working-class his new colony. Now a museum
investigates the science and historic site, Maison
behind water molecules and Saint-Gabriel was inaugurated
the quest to find alternative INSIDER TIP in 1966. The building itself is
sources of water in space. The Get Crafty over 300 years old, and inside
experience will appeal to all Among the many the house’s chapel, kitchen,
age groups, and includes a exhibits of the Centre des dormitory, and drawing rooms
rock from the moon that Sciences de Montréal, are artifacts dating from the
can be touched. try to time your visit to 17th century, deftly arranged
Attached to the Centre des experience Fabrik. This as though they were still in
Sciences de Montréal is the special workshop takes use. These include a writing
place every afternoon desk used by Marguerite
at 2pm (noon on week­ Bourgeoys herself and a
ends), and visitors can magnificent vestment and
The warm red­brick facade create and experiment cope, embroi dered by a
of the Centre d’histoire with the provided crafts. wealthy hermit who lived in
de Montréal a hut on the property.
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