FUNDING

The Université de Montréal's Exhibit Center gratefully acknowledges the financial investment by the Department of Canadian Heritage in the creation of this on-line presentation for the Virtual Museum of Canada.

PRODUCTION

Direction, conception and scriptwriting:
Luc BOUVRETTE, Ph D. [www.lucbouvrette.com], Sophie LIMOGES, archaeologist

Research and documentation, iconographical research, final text writing:
Éric CHALIFOUX, archaeologist, Sophie LIMOGES, archaeologist

Photography:
Luc BOUVRETTE, Ph D. [www.lucbouvrette.com], unless otherwise mentionned

Graphic and multimedia design, computer graphics, animation and Flash/HTML integration, original musical score: Luc BOUVRETTE, Ph D. [www.lucbouvrette.com]. Music and field photography © Luc Bouvrette.

Illustrations:
François GIRARD / Vidéanthrop, Sophie LIMOGES, archaeologist

Translation:
Jane MACAULAY, translator

Additional research:
Marie-Ève BRODEUR, archaeologist, consultant

Financial management:
Andrée LEMIEUX, director, Université de Montréal Exhibit Center assisted by Anik LAROSE, Université de Montréal Exhibit Center

SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION COMMITTEE

Jean-Jacques ADJIZIAN, archaeologist, La Corporation Archéo-08, Rouyn-Noranda
Adrian L. BURKE, professor, Anthropology department, Université de Montréal
Éric CHALIFOUX, archaeologist
Claude CHAPDELAINE, professor, Anthropology department, Université de Montréal
Jean-Pierre CHRESTIEN, curator, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Marc CÔTÉ, archaeologist, La Corporation Archéo-08, Rouyn-Noranda
Pierre DESROSIERS, archaeologist, ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec
Louis GAGNON, curator, Avataq Cultural Institute
Daniel GENDRON, archaeologist, Avataq Cultural Institute
Leila INKSETTER, archaeologist, La Corporation Archéo-08, Rouyn-Noranda
Rosanne LAFORGE, director, Centre d'interprétation de la Métabetchouane
Érik LANGEVIN, archaeologist, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Amélie LANGLAIS, archaeologist, Institut culturel Avataq
Marcel MOUSSETTE, professor, History Department, Université Laval
Jean-Luc PILON, curator, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Michel PLOURDE, archaeologist, Parks Canada
Patricia SUTHERLAND, curator, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Roland TREMBLAY, archaeologist

EVALUATION COMMITTEE

Louis BOURQUE, Ms. Sc. candidate, engineering physics, École Polytechnique de l'Université de Montréal
Nadine CLOUTIER, archaeologist- educational specialist, consultant
Jeannine LAURENDEAU, assistant director (retired), École Wilfrid Pelletier
Gilles LIMOGES, assistant director (retired), École secondaire Urgel- Archambault
Élyse LIMOGES, PhD, Neuropsychologist
Annie et Audrey LIMOGES

LINGUISTIC REVISION OF FRENCH VERSION

Gilles LIMOGES, assistant director (retired), École secondaire Urgel- Archambault

LINGUISTIC REVISION OF ENGLISH VERSION

Luc BOUVRETTE, PhD.

MANY THANKS TO

We would like to gratefully thank the CHIN's team for its collaboration throughout the making of this exhibition. Special thanks to Pierre CHALIFOUR, Marie-Hélène MYRE, Luc PESANT and Kim GAUVIN. We would also like to thank Marc GADREAU and Isabelle HADE, archaeologists from the Laboratoire-réserve du ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec as well as André BERGERON of the Centre de Conservation du Québec. Warm thanks to Willy CAIN, mayor of Tasiujaq, Allen GORDON, Executive Director of the Nunavik Tourism Association, Susie GORDON, Jean DUPUIS and Christian BUSCH of Air Inuit, for their generous contribution and advice related to the field work in Nunavik.

We would like to thank, for their generous collaboration:

Elena BERTHE, Tasiujaq;
Éric CHANTIGNY, programmer;
Jean-Yves CHRESTIEN, archaeologist, Canadian Museum of Civilization;
Pierre M. DESROSIERS, archaeologist, Institut culturel Avataq;
Richard DESROSIERS;
Claudine GIROUX, archaeologist, ministère de la Culture et des Communications;
François GIRARD, artist;
Stacey GIRLING-CHRISTIE, registrar-archaeology, Canadian Museum of Civilization;
Victoria GORDON, Nunavik Tourism Association;
Lisa KOPERQUALUK, Makivik Corporation;
Marc LABERGE, ethnographer-photographer, Vidéanthrop;
Rosanne LAFORGE, director, Centre d'interprétation de la Métabetchouan;
Amélie LANGLAIS, archaeologist, Avataq Cultural Institute;
José MAILHOT, archaeologist;
Patrick PLUMET, archaeologist;
Gilles ROUSSEAU, archaeologist;
Rémi SAVARD, anthropologist.

Finally, we would like to thank all of those who have fed us, kept us warm and dry and shared their wisdom and passion with kindness and smiles. Many thanks to everyone.

COLLECTIONS

Objects presented in this exhibit come from various institutions. We would like to thank the curators who have generously accepted in assisting us in the choice of objects, their documentation and their photography.

Centre d'interprétation de la Métabetchouane
Collection archéologique du département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal
Collection des livres rares de la bibliothèque des Sciences humaines, Université de Montréal
Avataq Cultural Institute
Laboratoire-réserve du ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec
La Corporation Archéo-08, Rouyn-Noranda
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ostéothèque, Université de Montréal
Parc archéologique de la Pointe-du-Buisson, Beauharnois

Satellite photography: Landsat, NASA circa 1990

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