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Cellars

Detail from the 3D reconstruction of a cellar beneath Sainte-Anne Market, showing a barrel and a staircase leading down from the door to the floor.

Guy Lessard, Pointe-à-Callière.

Sainte-Anne Market broke new ground by renting out cellar spaces by the month, diversifying both its services and its income. These half-basements, accessible from the street but not directly connected to the market, had floor hatches that made it possible to toss waste into the cellars on either side of the collector sewer—to the great delight of archaeologists, more than 150 years later!

Canteen

3D reconstruction of a canteen beneath Sainte-Anne Market. Two men sit at a table, playing dominoes. A woman rummages through a cupboard filled with bottles.

Guy Lessard, Pointe-à-Callière.

Among the businesses set up in the cellars was a canteen, where light meals and refreshments were served.

Tenants

Handwritten list of the Sainte-Anne Market cellars for lease in 1842. It includes the tenants’ names, the length of the lease and the rent. The page is yellowed, and the handwriting is old-fashioned.

“Cellars under the Saint Ann Market let by Auction”, City of Montréal, CA M001 VM001-10-D013, p. 216-217.

These manuscript pages list the tenants of the cellars at Sainte-Anne Market, including a hairdresser, coopers, shoemakers and a leather merchant.

Storage

3D reconstruction of a cellar beneath Sainte-Anne Market, containing barrels, sacks and wooden crates. A set of stairs leads down from the door to the floor. A trapdoor is set into the floor beside the stairs.

Guy Lessard, Pointe-à-Callière.

Reconstruction of one of the cellars, showing the floor hatch used to dispose of waste into the building’s deep basement vaults.