Welcome to the dig diary! This blog endeavours to furnish you with all the latest findings, musings and stories from the ongoing archaeological investigations at Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada and the surrounding area. If you are interested at all in archaeology, in Canadian history, or in visiting Nova Scotia, please keep coming back. We promise to keep you updated while we are in the field.
Saint Mary’s University, working with Parks Canada and the Société Promotion Grand-Pré, began to survey Grand-Pré’s archaeological landscapes in the year 2000. The following season, we initiated an archaeological field school to train undergraduates, advance our research, and provide an enhanced experience for visitors to the national historic site. We’ve been returning to the field every year since. And today, this research is playing a significant part in the effort to have Grand-Pré listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Long celebrated as a place of agricultural bounty and spectacular scenery, Grand-Pré is also a place of memory and reflection. For the archaeologist, this land is a great book waiting to be read, layer by layer.
Archaeology in action.
Jonathan Fowler
Miriam L. C. Fry
Stéphane Noël
Sarah-Marie McDonald
Sweetness. I was at this field school last summer, never thought of making a blog of it! Jonathan and Rob are still teaching right? and Robert! Thumbs up for the great pictures.
Regan in Toronto
Missing washer toss
By: Regan-Heng Zhang on June 24, 2009
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Hello,
Your website is very well showcased. Lots of pictures… Thanks.
Could I make reference to this website?
Thanks.
Dieppe, NB.
By: Robert Richard on June 25, 2009
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Hi Robert:
Thank you so much for the great feedback. You are most welcome to refer to us!
Thanks again,
Christina
By: grandpre2009 on June 25, 2009
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Hi!
I’ve linked to this blog on our class website for Environment, Sustainabilty, and Society at Dalhousie – since Jonathan lectures on archaeology, material culture, and landscape change for us. Hope that’s okay! It’s great reading.
Claire Campbell
By: Claire Campbell on September 20, 2011
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Hi Claire,
By all means! Happy reading, and do let us know if you have any questions. We plan to be updating the site over the winter as we continue to work in the lab.
Jonathan
By: Jonathan Fowler on September 21, 2011
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We Modern Day Acadians are chomping the bit waiting to see what all can be found in Grand Pre, Beaubassin, Port Royal: you name it: all in order to create an accurate sense of who our ancestors were.
By: Suzanne Sears on October 13, 2011
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