Tour Montreal Brochure Outline
Section 1.)
Imagine the snow covered streets of Montreal, Canada. Not the bustling democratically diverse metropolis you know it as today, but eighteenth century Montreal. A city in which French aristocracy and authoritarianism reigned. The streets would reek of human and animal waste, mixed with freshly butchered meat. Chimneys of each home would be exhaling into the open sky as they breathe life into stone and wooden homes. The sounds of hammers and chisels would be screaming in the background, in a seemingly endless attempt to satisfy the city's constant appetite for expansion. The crisp cold air of early spring would be biting at your nose and slapping your cheeks every time a fresh arctic breeze whispered to the city. You have probably read about the inhumanity of slavery or the injustices endured by Indians. Now you have an unprecedented opportunity to experience it first hand as it happens in front of your eyes! You will get to experience life as one of Montreal's own citizens in the 1730's. The Southern Methodist University physics department has discovered a way to recognize and to alter time and space. This concept was a mere sci-fi fantasy in the late twentieth century, a movie was even made about it called Being John Malkovich, (1) but now it is a reality. These portals will transport you into the minds of Montreal's citizens, giving you all their sensory perceptions. However, due to the limitations of the number of space, time, dimension portals (STDP) that have been discovered your options will limited to a number of individuals. The few portals that have been discovered will still, however, give you a diverse look into eighteenth century society. They will include citizens ranging from the lower classes such as, the Afro-Portugese slave Marie Angelique all the way up to the merchant class men like Franois Poulin de Francheville. The various portal packages will give you various perspectives on French colonial life in New France during this time. Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a slave? To stare in the face of your "master" as you endure unspeakable acts of cruelty? With our Angelique portal package you can experience her life first hand as she saw it. You may follow her from her Portugese home to her Flemish owner then her to Atlantic expedition and arrive in New England before being sold to her French owner Franois Poulin de Francheville in New France Cooper, (23-24). With this package you will be able to feel what it was like for a slave to be beaten or punish for "talking back", which is just a synonym for having an opinion in today's modern society. This package seems to put into perspective how cheap human life was, though not in a monitary sense because at the time fire Angelique's life had been negotiated for a barrel of gun powder Cooper, (87). Follow her as she and her lover Claude Thibault, try to make it to a New England port and set sail on a ship bound for Portugal. Cooper, (179). You will end this time travel with her trial and execution. Be there as her trial ultimately rest on the testimony of a five year old child (2). You will experience firsthand her interrogation through torture and be there as she pleads for the sweet release of death by screaming, "Put me to death" (3). If the morbid reality of the Angelique portal is too much to handle then you may enjoy our Francheville and
Section 2.)
Marie Angelique Montreal in the 18th century and its effects on America Life as a slave Life of the upper class Franois Poulin de Francheville and merchant society 148,149,
Religious and government leaders 75, hotel-dieu, 204 Life of the lower class Indians, women and peasants 73, 81
Section 3.)
Given this opportunity to see a colonial city in its infancy, you will see with your own eyes how our neighbors to the north impacted early American commerce and, the slave trade. By holding a mirror to, the face of America, you will see the foundations on which the new world was built. As one time traveler who traveled through the Angelique portal put it, "I will forever be changed by the way I experienced the inhumanity of Angelique's daily mental and physical abuse". Another time traveler who used the Francheville portal said, "I never realized how closely early American and Canadian history were so closely intertwined, even down to such isolated commerce as slavery and fur". So come look through the microscope of history for an unbiased account and you will see that you may find the things you like, but you will not always like the things you find!