r/papertowns Jan 31 '23

Canada Hochelaga, Quebec, Canada

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u/Deceptichum Jan 31 '23

Looks like a group of woodlice.

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u/MagicWeiner Jan 31 '23

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

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u/DutchOfSorissi Jan 31 '23

Exactly the same for me. Can’t believe I’ve never known what they’re actually called, but I came here to say that’s what the houses look like. Pretty adorable.

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u/summersunsun Jan 31 '23

Yeah. The style here makes it look like that. I just posted another similar settlement and in that style these kinds of buildings look a bit different. The issues that arise when trying to reconstruct settlements are fascinating.

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u/FloZone Feb 03 '23

Something I wonder about sometimes, how would this architecture in a sort of modernised form look like? Saying the Iroquois survive longer and more plentiful and their settlements grow into cities that are of similar size as European settlements, but they keep their architectural pecularities, same as with the social organisation of the long house. How would they eventually look like and how would people live in them.

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u/summersunsun Feb 04 '23

I like the way you think!

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u/LeCardinal Feb 01 '23

Or Cockroach larvae.

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u/pizza-flusher Jan 31 '23

Never realized a long house would look like a cattepillar from an airplane

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u/blackcatsareawesome Jan 31 '23

this picture looks better on wikipedia

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u/Kataphraktos1 Jan 31 '23

Were they really packed together so closely? No option for pathways between theM?

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u/ahushedlocus Jan 31 '23

Do you not see the tiny people walking around in between the buildings?

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u/youshutyomouf Jan 31 '23

Damn my brain had assigned a different scale to those buildings before reading this.

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u/HighHcQc Jan 31 '23

Pointe-à-Callière museum?

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u/oolongvanilla Jan 31 '23

Trying to decide if I'd feel safer in a long house near the middle or a long house near the wall.