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The following lecture, at a meeting of the Nova=20
Scotia Archaeological Society, would interest some on this list:
Cheers,
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
The Cultural Landscape of Grand Pre: Archaeology, Earth Sciences and UNESCO
Presented by: Katie Cottreau-Robins, NSM, and Rob Ferguson, Parks Canada.
Location: Auditorium, NS Museum of Natural History
1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Date/Time: May 25, 2010 at 7:30 pm. (also=20
the Annual General Meeting =97 AGM)
The illustrated lecture will focus on the=20
collaboration between the Nova Scotia Museum,=20
Parks Canada and Dalhousie University's Earth=20
Sciences Department on understanding the unique=20
environmental conditions of the marsh which have=20
contributed to the continuity of rich=20
agricultural practice and settlement at Grand Pre.
Katie Cottreau-Robins is the Curator of=20
Archaeology for the Nova Scotia Museum (NSM) and=20
a PhD Candidate at Dalhousie University=20
(Interdisciplinary PhD Program). Her current=20
research projects are mainly in the fields of=20
historical and landscape archaeology and focus on=20
the urban archaeology of Halifax, public=20
archaeology, the archaeology of the Black=20
Loyalists, the archaeology of slavery, and as=20
part of the UNESCO proposal archaeology research=20
team, Acadian and Planter settlement on the Grand=20
Pre marsh lands. As an Interdisciplinary PhD=20
candidate her dissertation work explores the life=20
of Bridgadier General Timothy Ruggles, a=20
prominent Loyalist from Hardwick, Massachusetts=20
who arrived in Nova Scotia with family and slaves=20
in 1784 to establish a farmstead in the Annapolis=20
Valley. Originally a study of slavery in=20
post-Revolutionary Nova Scotia, her project has=20
grown to include the many forms of labor used by=20
Ruggles to help re-create a Loyalist formula that=20
positioned him so prominently on the=20
Massachusetts political, military, and=20
agricultural landscape. She has been conducting=20
field work at Grand Pre since late 2007.
Rob Ferguson has been an archaeologist with Parks=20
Canada since 1976. He graduated with a BA (Hon)=20
in Anthropology from Trent University in=20
1974. Rob's first excavation was on the=20
shipwreck Le Machault in Chaleur Bay, in=20
1969. Since then he has worked across the=20
country, from Prince Rupert, B.C. to L'Anse aux=20
Meadows, Newfoundland, and from Ellesmere Island,=20
Nunavut, to Canso, Nova Scotia. This year he is=20
working on Acadian sites at Grand Pr=E9 and Port La=20
Joye, and he looks forward to retirement in the coming year.
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