{"id":7041,"date":"2010-05-22T06:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T11:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:22:15","slug":"larcheologue-urbain-a-lile-des-soeurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/22\/larcheologue-urbain-a-lile-des-soeurs\/","title":{"rendered":"L’arch\u00e9ologue urbain \u00e0 l\u2019\u00cele des Soeurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contribu\u00e9 par Alex Lefran\u00e7ois Leduc, un \u00e9tudiant \u00e0 la ma\u00eetrise en arch\u00e9ologie \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/em><\/p>\n

Le r\u00f4le de l\u2019arch\u00e9ologie dans l\u2019am\u00e9nagement urbain est souvent occult\u00e9 par un sentiment pressant de nouveaut\u00e9 et de transformation. On cherche \u00e0 revitaliser un site, on veut le refaire, le rentabiliser, le remettre au go\u00fbt du jour sans trop se soucier des dommages inapparents que de telles interventions occasionnent.<\/p>\n

Certains organismes bien connus de d\u00e9fense du patrimoine tentent tant bien que mal de prot\u00e9ger notre h\u00e9ritage architectural apparent, anciennes fabriques du canal Lachine, \u00e9difices historiques du Vieux-Montr\u00e9al, vestiges industriels de Pointe-Saint-Charles\u2026 des signes du pass\u00e9 que tous aper\u00e7oivent de la fen\u00eatre de leur bureau, des t\u00e9moins qui, du fait de leur visibilit\u00e9, obtiennent parfois l\u2019attention de l\u2019opinion publique quant \u00e0 leur conservation et\/ou restauration. Quand on annonce la destruction d\u2019un fier survivant de la grande noirceur urbanistique des ann\u00e9es 60, on s\u2019indigne, on revendique et on cherche, avec raison, \u00e0 conserver la m\u00e9moire du site. M\u00eame si cette m\u00e9moire consiste trop souvent en une plaque de bronze ou un marquage au sol qui seront oubli\u00e9s dans un coin sombre d\u2019un nouveau d\u00e9veloppement. Qui a entendu parler du roc irlandais?<\/p>\n

En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, une grande partie de ce patrimoine repose sous nos pieds, \u00e0 l\u2019insu de la grande majorit\u00e9 des gens qui y circulent sans pr\u00eater attention au lieu o\u00f9 ils sont, \u00e0 la rue o\u00f9 ils passent, au parc o\u00f9 ils d\u00eenent. Combien de gens \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur de ce blogue savent que la place du Canada est en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 un ancien cimeti\u00e8re? Que sous la rue Bridge menant au pont Victoria sont enterr\u00e9s des milliers d\u2019Irlandais? Que Westmount, C\u00f4te-des-Neiges et Outremont renferment des dizaines de s\u00e9pultures pr\u00e9historiques, que sous un stationnement de la place d\u2019Youville se trouve l\u2019ancien parlement du Canada ou encore qu\u2019on retrouve un ancien village am\u00e9rindien face \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 McGill?<\/p>\n

Il est beaucoup plus sexy j\u2019en conviens de r\u00eaver d\u2019une nouvelle gare intermodale ou du r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement du Quartier des Spectacles que de la protection ou la mise en valeur d\u2019un site arch\u00e9ologique. Malgr\u00e9 tout, une grande ville qui cro\u00eet (et se respecte!) doit n\u00e9cessairement prot\u00e9ger les t\u00e9moins de son histoire, m\u00eame ceux situ\u00e9s sous terre. Ouvrez l\u2019\u0153il, un Montr\u00e9al diff\u00e9rent est sous vos pieds!<\/p>\n

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Le site Leber \u00e0 l\u2019\u00cele-des-S\u0153urs\u00a0: destruction annonc\u00e9e?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Quatre grues en action, trois b\u00e2timents \u00e0 construire, 1,2 million de pi2 de superficie, 27 M$ de travaux routiers, 3 000 employ\u00e9s d\u00e9plac\u00e9s : le d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement de Bell Canada \u00e0 L’\u00cele-des-Soeurs est le chantier priv\u00e9 de la d\u00e9cennie dans la r\u00e9gion de Montr\u00e9al. \u00c7a se sent !\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> – Journal Les Affaires, avril 2007<\/p>\n

La pointe nord de l\u2019\u00cele-des-S\u0153urs, livr\u00e9e aux promoteurs priv\u00e9s notamment pour la construction du campus Bell, fait pr\u00e9sentement l\u2019objet de plusieurs excavations dans le cadre du projet r\u00e9sidentiel Pointe-Nord<\/a>, qui pr\u00e9voit la construction<\/a> de 1\u00a0600 unit\u00e9s d\u2019habitation, d\u2019espaces commerciaux et l\u2019am\u00e9nagement de trois parcs d\u2019ici \u00e0 2020.<\/p>\n

On sait depuis plus de cinquante ans que la pointe nord-est de l\u2019\u00eele rec\u00e8le deux sites arch\u00e9ologiques<\/a> d\u2019importance. Le premier, dont l\u2019occupation d\u00e9buterait \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de 900 ans avant notre \u00e8re, est un site pr\u00e9historique am\u00e9rindien o\u00f9 l\u2019on a notamment retrouv\u00e9 des outils de pierre et des fragments de poterie. Le second, le domaine agricole de Jacques Leber, fut occup\u00e9 d\u00e8s le XVIIe si\u00e8cle; on y a notamment retrouv\u00e9 lors de fouilles en 1995 certains vestiges du manoir, de la boulangerie, de l\u2019\u00e9table, d\u2019une soue \u00e0 cochons et d\u2019un muret de protection. Dans sa description des lieux, le minist\u00e8re de la culture nous dit que \u00ab\u00a0l<\/em>a conservation future de ce site r\u00e9side surtout dans sa valeur d’\u00e9vocation [\u2026] \u00bb. <\/em><\/p>\n

C\u2019est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment ce que s\u2019appr\u00eatent \u00e0 faire<\/a> les promoteurs du projet, qui pr\u00e9voient la construction en partenariat avec la ville de Montr\u00e9al d\u2019un parc qui \u00ab\u00a0refl\u00e9tera l’histoire de l’\u00eele\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, \u00e9voquant la pr\u00e9sence de l\u2019ancien domaine. J\u2019ai r\u00e9cemment visit\u00e9 le chantier, voici deux petits exemples de ce que j\u2019y ai d\u00e9couvert, au travers des monticules de terre et de d\u00e9chets pr\u00e9sents sur le site\u00a0:<\/p>\n

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Une rapide recherche Internet<\/a> nous apprend que ces fragments de terre cuite datent probablement de la premi\u00e8re moiti\u00e9 du XIXe si\u00e8cle, soit \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque approximative de la construction des derniers b\u00e2timents du domaine Leber. Pourraient-ils s\u2019agir d\u2019objets ayant appartenu \u00e0 Jacques Leber ou \u00e0 ses descendants? Impossible de le savoir d\u00e9sormais, tout \u00e9tant hors contexte arch\u00e9ologique<\/a>, m\u00eal\u00e9 \u00e0 des d\u00e9chets de construction de plastique, de verre ou autre, \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 enfouis sous un champ de gravier.<\/p>\n

Sur une note moins arch\u00e9ologique et pour en rajouter on peut clairement apercevoir qu\u2019un petit marais situ\u00e9 dans le bois\u00e9 au nord-est de l\u2019\u00eele a \u00e9t\u00e9 partiellement remblay\u00e9 et d\u00e9truit par les constructions voisines.<\/p>\n

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Heureusement, nous dit-on<\/a>, les futurs r\u00e9sidents vivront dans une \u00e9co-communaut\u00e9\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0dans une collectivit\u00e9 verte, le d\u00e9veloppement durable, la qualit\u00e9 de vie et la protection de l\u2019environnement sont pris en consid\u00e9ration dans chaque aspect de la planification, de la conception et de la construction\u00a0\u00bb. On repassera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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