Another Tannery Unearthed in Montreal

MONTREAL, CANADA—A second tannery has been uncovered in the St. Henri neighborhood of Montreal. Last summer, a village of tanneries was found, but the newly uncovered site is in better condition and will offer archaeologists more information about the industry, which was positioned outside the city limits in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The site will be completely excavated so that the Turcot Interchange—a 50-year-old freeway interchange—can be replaced. “At some point near the turn of the twentieth century, the area was paved over and turned into a rail yard. Then of course in the 1960s, they built the Turcot Interchange,” Dinu Bumbaru, policy director for Heritage Montreal, told CBC News. To read about evidence of a tannery found in England, go to "Medieval Leather, Vellum, and Fur."