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Stones and Bones Bike Tour

Sunday, June 13, 2021 10:00to11:00
Redpath Museum 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
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FREE zoom presentation.

A family-friendly bike trip exploring the fossils and rocks, architecture, and archeological spots around Montreal.

Tour starts with ancient fossils at the Redpath Museum, travels west along Sherbrooke Street to the stone towers and reflecting pool at the Old Fort, heads up the cart track with the country’s oldest milestone that leads to Leonard Cohen's boyhood home and visits the site of an archeological dig in 1895. The tour finishes with a glide downhill through the St. Henri Tanneries in the Glen and ends with the ghosts of Griffintown at the old Lowney chocolate factory

English only

Suitable for family audience ages 10+

Registration for this event is now closed. Look for your zoom link in an email from redpath.museum [at] mcgill.ca.

 

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Fri, 06/11/2021 - 15:47
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Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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