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I would first like to thank Ms. Charlotte Kaiser Weinberg for the Richard and Lynne Kaiser Family Foundation Arts Internship Award. Your generous support through this award allowed me to undertake this internship. My field of study at 9I制作厂免费 is in anthropology, with a specific focus on archaeology. I am interested in settler-Indigenous relationships, both historical and contemporary.

It is for this reason that I chose to intern at the Pointe-脿-Calli猫re museum, which was founded on the 350th anniversary of the founding of Montreal. This location has been and continues to be an important site of exchange between many nations and cultures. The museum is committed to understanding how these exchanges took place in the past in order to understand how this history affects and informs the present. I feel very lucky to have been able to work for Pointe-脿-Calli猫re as it is a trailblazer of archaeological research, conservation, and diffusion to the public.

With this internship, I hoped to gain experience working with archaeological collections with a focus on research. Throughout my 8 weeks, I not only got hands-on experience working with these collections but also learned many important skills that I had not expected. For example, I learned how to take high-quality photos of artefacts, how to create an organisational system to manage the large volume of artefacts I worked with, how to monitor environmental conditions in archives and sites, how to work with various spreadsheet and cataloguing systems, and how to plan and present proposals for an exhibition.

My project involved identifying, pulling from archives, photographing, and analysing artefacts from contexts associated with the Calli猫re domain (1685-1765) at the Fort de Ville-Marie site. Our goal in choosing to study this part of the collection was to try to find links between the site and the 1701 Peace of Montreal, about which the museum hopes to make an exhibit next year for its 325th anniversary. Within this collection, I identified three main themes: architecture and construction, armed conflict, and daily life. These themes will be studied in further detail in order to construct the exhibit on the Peace. I also participated in weekly meetings with the archaeology department, which allowed me to get a glimpse of the other career opportunities within this field.

The most exciting moment in my internship was finding a fragment of a religious incense holder within the collection, which had previously been misidentified as a serving vessel. This fragment quickly became a main focus of research within the project, as we sought to identify if it was part of previously catalogued objects. Though we found no indisputable matches, it seemed probable that the fragment I found belonged to the same object as another fragment identified at the site in 2005. It was very exciting to have found a probable match that had been overlooked for 20 years!

My academic background in archaeology was mostly theoretical, though I had taken one methodology class which taught me important skills such as typology creation and map drawing. Therefore, I learned a huge amount of concrete skills in my internship, which will be useful both within the field of archaeology and within the wider working world. My theoretical background in archaeology was helpful in the conceptualisation of the site I was working in and in the elaboration of the key themes present in the collection.

The biggest challenge of this internship was certainly the volume of artefacts that I had to get through within a short amount of time. My supervisor and I had set an ambitious goal as we did not know exactly how big the collection was. As the weeks went by, we had to modify our deadlines and reconfigure my responsibilities as we realised just how much work there was to do. At times this was very stressful, and I worried about not being able to get everything done on time. However, the more I worked, the faster I got, and by the last two weeks I was able to get through 130 lots of artefacts per week. At this pace, I was able to get through all the lots we had planned for.

Once again, thank you to Ms. Charlotte Kaiser Weinberg for the Richard and Lynne Kaiser Family Foundation Arts Internship Award. Without your support, I would not have been able to take time off work to complete this internship. It has provided me with invaluable experience in this field and a much clearer idea of the options available to me in the field after I finish my studies. I am deeply grateful to have had this amazing opportunity.