Pewter Ware or Earthenware?
Champlain ate from pewter ware.
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Plate bearing the coat of
arms of Louis d’Ailleboust, after 1643
Pewter
Made in Paris, France
Collection of the Musée des Augustines de l’Hôtel-Dieu de
Québec
Photo: Steven Darby, Canadian Museum of Civilization
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For the service of the leader’s table, 36 platters, as many bowls and
plates, 6 salt-cellars, 6 ewers, 2 basins, 6 jugs holding 2 pints each, 6
pint-pots, 6 half-pints, 6 quarter-pints, all of tin, two dozen
table-cloths, 24 dozen napkins.
"Statement of persons to be brought and maintained at the Quebec settlement
for the year 1619," Champlain, The Voyages, 1632
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Fragments of a monogrammed plate, 17th century
France
Found at the site of the second Quebec settlement
Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec,
Archaeological Collection
Photo: Steven Darby, Canadian Museum of Civilization
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As on board ship, the dishes and cooking pots at the settlement were
provided by the trading company. The plates, bowls, pitchers, jugs and
basins, as well as the copper cauldrons, were doubtless recycled.
Archaeologists have found no trace of them.
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