Nova Scotia Museum

There’s something about a birthday that ends with a “0” that prompts reflection. These milestones feel like big accomplishments, moments to look at how far we’ve come while we take a pause before embarking on the next chapter.

As we end the 2018 Fort Saint Louis field season, a big thank you is extended to all who contributed to the excavation. Heather R. of AFN was with us to the end. A natural excavator, we hope she will join us next year!

We are in the last hours of site preparations before closing everything up. Visitors pop by to have one more look at excavations.

This wall was uncovered during the public dig 4 weeks ago. As anticipated, it continues from the wall we found last year.

We had many visitors to the site today. It was great to share our discoveries.

Two local public archaeology dig participants returned to the site to see how excavation has progressed in recent weeks

We had some bailing to do in the units this morning. A lot of rain the day before.

David Jones joined us today and worked in a unit with an unusual charcoal stain.

It's rainy here today so its a great opportunity to begin cleaning artifacts. The bags are stacking up!

We cleared the kitchen table at the crew house and set up wash basins and toothbrushes.

By: Dr. Tim Fedak, Acting Curator of Geology, Nova Scotia Museum

Nova Scotia is becoming known globally as an innovative centre in the use of 3D visualization for research and industrial projects. 

A small workshop was held at the Nova Scotia Museum in May that highlighted several 3D digitization projects.

A very foggy day on site today.

Thomasina uncovered a wonderful artifact today - a fragment of rolled trade copper.

We had a steady stream of visitors yesterday. The Acadian community is particularly interested in this early French archaeology site.

We had all the canopies up. It was a warm digging day.

We had help this weekend from Curator Adrian Morrison of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg. Thanks for your hard work Adrian!

We are in a bit of a tropical paradise here in Port La Tour. Often the fog sits far off the site as you can see in this picture.

Visitors are regular. This morning folks from Liverpool came by to see an archaeological excavation and learn of our findings so far.

Another beautiful day at the archaeology site. We often see local fisherman at work in Port La Tour Harbour.

We began opeing up new units this week in areas where we found evidence of daily life at the fort in 2017.

A view of the archaeology project from the beach. The warm weather continued but a nice ocean breeze picked up today. Lovely!

Field technician Wesley Weatherbee joins colleagues from Saint Mary's University for an afternoon of digging.

Similar to the rest of the province, it was hot and humid at the Fort Saint Louis dig site. We set up canopies and umbrellas for the excavators. Shade and water were a must!

To celebrate International Women's Day 2018, we're sharing some objects of interest that are in the Nova Scotia Museum cultural history collection, including some new acquisitions.