Quarry sites and heritage records
File:Monolith Quarry 01.jpg (Mingan Archipelago, Quebec) on Wikimedia Commons; landform names follow park signage, not private lease maps.
Bench, floor, and highwall
Open-pit language uses “bench” for a horizontal work level, “floor” for the working elevation at the face, and “highwall” for the unslope above the last cut. Heritage forms that borrow oilfield gloss sometimes mislabel a quarry highwall as a “cliff” without stating standoff distance. When a submission copies such wording, add a plan snippet that shows safety berms and catch benches if those features still exist in lidar.
Water and frost in the file
Abandoned pits that intersect the water table become mapping objects for hydrogeology appendices. When a local news file references only “spring flooding,” the archive may lack the pump curves recorded by earlier operators. Tie photographic dates to hydrology graphs whenever melt-season peaks appear in historic captions.
Inventory stitching
Crosswalk provincial heritage IDs with Parks Canada listings where maritime quarries overlap tidal leases. The spelling of “Quarry Island” appears across bilingual Parks memoranda; preserve accents exactly as printed when quoting titles.
Further reading inside this archive
See Bench marks and stone dressing for stonework trace vocabulary and Canadian dimension-stone belts for regional stone naming habits. External registers remain authoritative for permitting: consult current statutes linked from Canadian Heritage and telephone the National Trust for Canada for volunteer coordination listed on its Ottawa contact page.