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Project: Restoring the Citadel Project: The 3 R s at 19 Wing/ CFB Comox In 2003–04, DCC’s expertise helped to restore the national historic resource that is the Citadel in Quebec City. The $20 million restoration project involved dismantling stone walls, excavating part of the walls and installing a drainage system, and then rebuilding the walls and returning everything to its original condition. DCC provided support for consultation, procurement and project management for this project, which came with some interesting challenges. While restoring the walls, workers found a cistern, old fortification walls and old building walls—each time a new discovery was made, work stopped while experts examined and preserved the items. Added to the project’s complexity, original material proved difficult to find. The Citadel’s sandstone “siding” stones, for example, came from a nearby quarry in 1820, but that quarry had been permanently closed. DCC found an abandoned quarry in Sainte-Félicité de Matane, obt