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The following lecture, at a meeting of the Nova Scotia Archaeological
Society, would interest some on this list:<br><br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>Cheers,<br>
<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>Patricia
L. Chalmers<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>Halifax<br>
<br>
<b>The Cultural Landscape of Grand Pre: Archaeology, Earth Sciences and
UNESCO<br>
</b>Presented by: Katie Cottreau-Robins, NSM, and Rob Ferguson, Parks
Canada.<br><br>
Location:<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>
Auditorium, NS Museum of Natural History<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab><x-tab>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>1747 Summer
Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br>
Date/Time:<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>May 25,
2010&nbsp; at 7:30 pm. (also the Annual General Meeting =97 AGM)<br><br>
<br>
The illustrated lecture will focus on the collaboration between the Nova
Scotia Museum, Parks Canada and Dalhousie University's Earth Sciences
Department on understanding the unique environmental conditions of the
marsh which have contributed to the continuity of rich agricultural
practice and settlement at Grand Pre.<br><br>
Katie Cottreau-Robins is the Curator of Archaeology for the Nova Scotia
Museum (NSM) and a PhD Candidate at Dalhousie University
(Interdisciplinary PhD Program). Her current research projects are mainly
in the fields of historical and landscape archaeology and focus on the
urban archaeology of Halifax, public archaeology, the archaeology of the
Black Loyalists, the archaeology of slavery, and as part of the UNESCO
proposal archaeology research team, Acadian and Planter settlement on the
Grand Pre marsh lands. As an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate her
dissertation work explores the life of Bridgadier General Timothy
Ruggles, a prominent Loyalist from Hardwick, Massachusetts who arrived in
Nova Scotia with family and slaves in 1784 to establish a farmstead in
the Annapolis Valley. Originally a study of slavery in post-Revolutionary
Nova Scotia, her project has grown to include the many forms of labor
used by Ruggles to help re-create a Loyalist formula that positioned him
so prominently on the Massachusetts political, military, and agricultural
landscape. She has been conducting field work at Grand Pre since late
2007.<br><br>
Rob Ferguson has been an archaeologist with Parks Canada since
1976.&nbsp; He graduated with a BA (Hon) in Anthropology from Trent
University in 1974.&nbsp; Rob's first excavation was on the shipwreck Le
Machault in Chaleur Bay, in 1969.&nbsp; Since then he has worked across
the country, from Prince Rupert, B.C. to L'Anse aux Meadows,
Newfoundland, and from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, to Canso, Nova
Scotia.&nbsp; This year he is working on Acadian sites at Grand Pr=E9 and
Port La Joye, and he looks forward to retirement in the coming
year.<br><br>
from
<a href=3D"http://www.novascotiaarchaeologysociety.com/" eudora=3D"autourl">
http://www.novascotiaarchaeologysociety.com/<br><br>
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