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Unearthing Montreal’S Past In Hochelaga, Terre Des Âmes, Marla Epp
Unearthing Montreal’S Past In Hochelaga, Terre Des Âmes, Marla Epp
Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts
[First paragraph] In his 2017 film, Hochelaga, terre des âmes (Hochelaga, Land of Souls), Québécois filmmaker François Girard delves into the complex history of Montreal. When a sinkhole appears in a football stadium, the site becomes an archaeological dig, led by a Mohawk graduate student at the Université de Montréal. The film tracks the progress of the dig, unearthing layers of history and revealing the stories of the generations of people who lived on the land, including the Indigenous peoples who lived there first.1