Archaeologists in Quebec City have so far uncovered a dozen skeletons and expect to find more as street excavations in the area continue.
Archaeologists in Canada have discovered a graveyard containing a dozen human skeletons, including those of several children and babies.during excavations that have been taking place over the last three weeks on Rue de Maisonneuve—a street located in Quebec City, French language newspaperreported. The excavations are being conducted in preparation for the construction of a new tramway.
The finds are not entirely unexpected given that the work is taking place above the site of an old cemetery. Human bones had already been discovered under Rue de Maisonneuve in 1997 during work on municipal pipes.outbreaks of diseaseStock image of an archaeologist excavating human remains. Archaeologists have discovered a graveyard containing a dozen human skeletons in Quebec City, Canada.
Epidemics of the disease occurred that year, as well as in 1834, 1849, 1851, 1852 and 1854, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia. In total, these epidemics killed at least 20,000 people in Canada. The deadly disease was feared at the time because no one understood how it spread or how to treat it. If left untreated, Cholera has a very high fatality rate.
During the epidemic of 1832, hundreds of people were dying every day in Canada, mostly in the larger settlements, such as Quebec City. This, in part, explains the large number of people that are buried in the Saint-Louis cemetery, Quebec City archaeologist Stéphane Noël told
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