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What Building Stones Tell Us
Walking Tour

Photos courtesy of Arlene Scher

Members gather

Members and friends gather for the tour
in front of McGill's Redpath Museum.


Ingrid Birker demonstrates 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.

Shell fossil in limestone

Somewhere in here (arrow) is the fossil of a broken shell, seen edge-on.






Our Sovereign, peering intently,
wonders "Where? Where???"

Our Sovereign

Two members talk

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.

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