Grand Pre Archeological Dig

Students from Saint Mary's University are digging into history at the Grand-Pré National Historic Site. Over the years, more than 70 students have trained in the field school project, digging up almost 17,000 artifacts, including shoe buckles, musket balls, gun flints, pottery, coins, and a key. They also discovered the cellar of a burned Acadian house (likely a part of the Acadian village destroyed by New England troops in the winter of 1755-56), and assisted in the recovery of a wooden sluice from the Grand Pré Marsh that has since been dated to circa 1685.

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Education

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• Grand Pre
• archeology
• anthropology
• Canadian history