Of the 8,000 artifacts stored inside the city of Montreal's archeological vaults on Peel St., one of the biggest is a piece of wood lying on a floor board in a climate-controlled basement storage room. City of Montreal senior archeologist Francois Belanger refers to it as "my favourite piece," an archeological jewel.

It is a large piece of white cedar, as tall and as wide as a large football player, which was part of the wood palisade fort that was built around Montreal from 1686 to 1689. It was torn down beginning in 1717 to make way for stronger stone masonry walls around the city.

The palisade stake was discovered in 1995 underneath the cornerof St. Francois Xavier and de la Commune Sts. in Old Montreal, during routine excavation related to routine infrastructure modernization.

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