The Pointe-à-Callière's 18th-Century Public Market - Animations and participants of the 2012 Edition

Agricultural producers

• Autour d’un pain, Montréal
  Loaves of country bread

• Aux trois petits cochons verts, Terrebonne
  Artisanal charcuterie
  
  
• Bergerie des Neiges, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare
  Lambs wool duvets and pillows, and lamb sausage

• Bleuetière Point du jour, Lavaltrie
  Blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries

• Cerises de terre Primera, Saint-Thomas-de-Joliette
  Ground cherries, jams, and flour

• Cidrerie Union libre, Dunham
  Apple cider, ice ciders, sparkling ciders

• Distributions l'Escalier, Montréal
  Herb vinegar, flower jelly (rose, lavender, hibiscus), and jams
  

• Érablière Varin, Oka
  Maple products

• La Feuille verte, Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley
  Medicinal plants and hemp products
  
  
• Ferme biologique Machabée, Saint-Chrysostome
  Market products, fresh and dried herbs
  

• Ferme Bionicale, Saint-Alexis-de-Montcalm
  Garlic flowers, chicory, beans, corn, peas, black and red radish, preserved garlic flowers
  

• Ferme Intermiel, Saint-Benoît-de-Mirabel
  Honey products and mead
  

• Fromagerie Au Gré des Champs, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
  Raw cow’s milk cheese

• Fromagerie La Moutonnière, Sainte-Hélène-de-Chester
  Sheep’s milk cheese
  

• L'âne O dière, Saint-Alexis-de-Montcalm
  Donkey milk soap
  
  
• La Courgerie, Sainte-Élisabeth
  Squash
  

• Vin artisanal Le Ricaneux, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse
  Strawberry and raspberry aperitif, coulis, jelly, syrup, raspberry cream, strawberry cream, and white elderberry

• Les Caprices du Pré, Stanbridge Est
  Artisanal soap

• Les condiments Varia, Beaconsfield
  Wine and port jelly
  

• Les Délices de Sophie, Saint-Chrysostome
  Jam, marmalade, ketchup
  

• Nutrafruit, Québec
  Cranberries
  
  
• Pointe-à-Callière
  Spruce beer, birch beer, and cookies
  

• Un, deux, trois Chocolat, Montréal
  Chocolate truffles
  

• Verger Au coeur de la pomme, Frelighsburg
  Apples, apple juice, and apple pies

• Vignoble de l'Orpailleur, Dunham
  White wines, aperitifs
  

The contemporary zone – Memories of New France

• Société généalogique canadienne-française
• L'angora des neiges, wool craft
• Lufa Farms, vegetables
• Rolland Vachon, wooden toys and games
• Créations Sydéral, hat maker
• Terra Madre, demonstration and explanation of herbal studies
• Archéo-Québec
• Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History
• Association des résidants du Vieux-Montréal (ARVM)
• Budding Archaeologists, simulated archaeological dig, Pointe-à-Callière
• Fédération des familles souches du Québec
• Anokian, natural Native beauty products
• Le Bourlingueur-Café

 Historical figures

• A “coureur des bois”
• A resident who has come to sell her wares at the market
• The bailiff
• Innkeeper Angélique, the widow Caron
• The priest
• A thief
• A sailor
  

Staged performances

• Military demonstrations by the 2nd battalion of the La Sarre Regiment
• Minuet and contra dance demonstration at the Castle with Danse-Cadence
• La Boîte à chansons, a children’s stage featuring storytellers and musicians
• La Ritournelle, songs and music on period instruments
• Corsaire
• Les Cordeurs des bois
• Daniel Roy and David Simard
• Gilles Plante, Diane Plouffe-Plante and Michel Bordeleau
• Madeleine Plante and Gilles Plante
• Les Pèlerins
• Les Cornemuses
• Madeleine and Ignace
• La Sainte Barbe
• Mélanie Bergeron and Pascal-Frédérique St-Yves
• Nicole Obomsawin, Abenaki storyteller and singer
• Thunder Hawks, a dance troupe from Kahnawake
• Storytellers and musicians, a performance on the site every 30 minutes

With the participation of historian Jacques Lacoursière, who will meet with the public and hold discussions about New France.

Crafts and know-how

• Coat of arms workshop, Production Oyez Oyez
  
• Sewing, the Time Nomads Society
• Château Ramezay quill pen-writing workshop
• The potter, Benoît Daigle
• The linen spinner, Lucille Macchabée
• The rope makers, Richard and Jonathan Roy
• The spoon maker, René Beaudoin
• The trough digger, Jean-Charles Beaudoin
• The children’s clothing seamstress, Rachelle Giroux
• Daily trades, the Association d’histoire vivante
• The lace makers, the Association des dentellières du Québec
• An Amerindian encampment
• The wood turner, Éric Dumais
• The shoemaker, François Lapointe
• The dowser, Richard Roy
• The gardener, Richard Behm
• Embroidery workshop, Colette Bachand and Robert Poirier

 Activities for children

• Embroidery workshop
• Games of skill and strategy
• The children of New France
• The Stewart Museum’s parade of little soldiers
• The corn harvest
• The Three Sisters game
• The shipmates’ school, sailor’s knot workshop