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The Nouvelle-Lorette mission overlaid on the built environment of Sault-au-Récollet today

This digital rendering shows a perspective drawing of the missionary outpost of Fort Lorette, overlaid in transparency on a recent aerial photograph of Sault-au-Récollet. The three arches in the foreground represent the facades of the longhouses of the Indigenous village.

Société d’histoire d’Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Cité historia Fonds.

The Nouvelle-Lorette mission overlaid on the built environment of Sault-au-Récollet today. This representation shows the most likely location of the First Peoples’ village according to archaeologists. It is pictured behind the fort rather than upriver, closer to the shore.