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Reports on excavation findings on the site of the Intendant's Palace in Quebec, Quebec. Number of times site was occupied from 1668 to present; Types of structures that stood in the site; Phases of composition and decomposition.

Abstract: In Québec City, a segment of an old wooden palisade built for protection was found buried in situ. The palisade was excavated by the Laval University archaeology field school in 2004–2005, and 29 posts were recovered and sampled. The palisade enclosed the Intendant''s Palace compound, which was the residence of the governor of New France at the end of the 17th century. Tree-ring analysis was performed on wood excavated from the Intendant''s Palace archaeological site (PDI) and additional wood from two historical military buildings, the Artillery Park (ART) (early 18th century) and the Québec Citadel (CIT) (17th–19th centuries). Wood identification revealed that white cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) was used for wood construction at the three sites. Many trees used for the construction of the PDI palisade were felled after the 1690 growing season, likely in September/October 1690. Posts probably came from trees growing close to the site on the banks of the Saint-Charles River. A white cedar ring-width chronology from the Rimouski area, approximately 300 km northeast of Québec City, along the St. Lawrence River, was used for cross-dating. Archaeological and historical wood samples from two of the three sites (PDI and ART) were first assembled in a 235-year tree-ring chronology, called the Québec chronology, extending from 1489 to 1723. The two master chronologies (Québec and Rimouski) were merged into a single 513-year tree-ring chronology (1489–2001), called the Saint-Laurent chronology. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Several archaeological field studies have been carried out on the Intendant's Palace site since 1982. In the first ten years, research concentrated on the 17th-century brewery, the Intendant's Palace and the King's Stores. When Université Laval's field school returned to the site in 2000, it took a holistic approach rather than focusing on specific buildings. In so doing, it documented the urban evolution of this part of Québec City, which has yielded evidence of continuous occupation since the mid-17th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archaeological investigations on the Intendant's Palace site in the 1980s determined the site's physical evolution and the activities pursued there since 1668. In 2006, the City of Québec and Université Laval launched another field study, which uncovered evidence not only of a prehistoric presence, but also previously unknown historic occupation pre-dating Jean Talon's brewery and possibly associated with a shipyard established by Talon next to the Saint-Charles River around 1666. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Used intensively from the second half of the 17th century to the British conquest in 1759, the Intendant's Palace compound accommodated the King's Stores, a brewery, a shipyard, a bakery and other facilities. The site was transformed from a natural marshy riverside to an impressive complex of buildings representing the power of the king in New France and the prestigious role of the intendant. This study in landscape change and environmental archaeology draws on recent research in archaeoentomology, archaeobotany and dendrochronology. The integration of natural, written and material data provides a better interpretation of the site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents abstracts on topics regarding the history of Quebec, including the War of Conquest between 1754 and 1765, the destruction of the Intendant's Palace in 1713 in Quebec City, and journalist Aristide Filiatreault.

The article presents French abstracts on topics regarding the history of Quebec, including the War of Conquest between 1754 and 1765, the destruction of the Intendant's Palace in 1713 in Quebec City, and journalist Aristide Filiatreault