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Romantic images of archeological digs, in exotic countries ranging from Algeria to Zanzibar, are easily conjured up in the minds of adventurers. Archeology is indeed an area of exploration that combines a search for the treasures of the past with a careful, meticulous scientific treatment of artefacts in an attempt to learn about those things that have come before us.

In general terms archeology is a scientific discipline that necessitates extensive hours of field work. The physical actions of digging, brushing, and sweating are followed by similar lengths of time drawing, cataloguing, and analyzing the materials recovered from a site in an attempt to begin to recreate a story from the artefacts.

But what can we learn from archeology? More specifically what could we possibly learn from a wreck, a shipwreck, just feet off the shore of an island just minutes from Montréal? I bet you think that by now everything that could be discovered has been. Wrong!!!

So what has the rediscover of the Lady Sherbrooke told us? Our knowledge of things as diverse as nineteenth century ship building techniques to the manner in which people travelled has increased by the examination of the artefacts found at the site of the Lady Sherbrooke.

As you view the images and read the accompanying texts on this site you will find the answer to other questions including what type of ship was the Lady Sherbrooke?; Who was Lady Sherbrooke?; and what other treasures were found on the wreck of the Lady Sherbrooke?