The roof over the Saint-Louis ruins also has a job upstairs. Beneath Dufferin Terrace in Québec City, a concrete cover became the subfloor of the wooden promenade. The National Trust for Canada’s account of its 2013 rehabilitation award describes forty pilings carefully positioned among the archaeological remains. Parks Canada owned the project, with Public Works and Government Services Canada leading it.[1]
The excavated spaces included a kitchen and washhouse, fireplaces, latrines and drains. Four forts and two châteaux used by French and British governors had occupied the site. The project provided two staircases down to the site.[1]
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Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux, Québec City. This map locates the town or region, not a verified exact historic event site.
It also put windows above it. In 2012, Parks Canada installed three glass prisms on the terrace, each about 1.5 metres high. Called archeoscopes, they let people on the promenade look down at the masonry below.[2] The underground visit and the view through the glass used different levels of the same structure: a roof over the ruins, a floor beneath the walkers, and openings between them.