"The Adventure of the Cat's Paw" (Print left by the brickmaker's cat as the bricks dried.) |
Several of our members gathered for an adventure in and
around Montreal's Sherbrooke Street, searching for clues to the deep
past and seeking to solve the mysteries of the Creatures in Stone and
the Paw Prints in Brick. In other words, we gathered for the What
Building Stones Tell Us walking tour led by McGill University's
Ingrid Birker, an interesting exploration of city buildings, their
structure, and the evidence of past life (both fossil and more recent)
visible therein.
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"The Adventure of the Creature in Stone" (Cephalopod fossil in limestone.) |
Members and friends gather for the tour
in front of McGill's Redpath Museum.
Tour leader Ingrid Birker, Redpath Museum Paleontologist, tells us about the architects of the Musée des Beaux Arts' original building, and the marble they used for it. | |
Somewhere in here (arrow) is the fossil of a broken shell, seen edge-on. Our Sovereign, peering intently, | |
| Two members (or is that Holmes and Watson?) discuss the mysteries raised by what we've seen on the tour, while walking around the reflecting pool at the Collège de Montréal. |