An archaeologist from the Nova Scotia Museum is back in a Shelburne County community this year.
Dr. Katie Cottreau-Robins is the curator of archaeology for the museum, and works for the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage.
She is again doing some digging in Port La Tour at Fort St. Louis, the site of a fur trade post in the early 1600s.
Dr. Cottreau-Robins says early French settlers conducted trade at the post.
“Broken dishes, glass, smoking pipes, and we’re finding artifacts that speak directly to the trade between the French and the Mi’kmaq, like European trade beets that were brought here to trade with the Mi’kmaq.”
She says they’ve found some 3,000 artifacts, mostly architectural in nature.
Dr. Cottreau-Robins says they received Canada 150 funding during her month in Port La Tour last year, and this year the Culture and Innovation fund is helping.
She says the community has been very supportive of the project.
“It’s a long term research project for me. One of the criteria is to set up community partnership, and that’s been excellent.”
They are working with the Barrington Museum Complex and will be digging until the end of July.
