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When in the summer of 1983, a team made up of archeologists, researchers, and divers, set out to examine the site of the Molson shipyard they probably could not have even wished for a better discovery. With the assistance of Professor Harold E. Edgerton, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, members of the Comité d'histoire et d'archéologie subaquatique du Québec methodically searched the bottom of a section of the Saint-Lawrence River for any evidence of an abandoned ship. On the fifth and final day of their initial exploration the team saw a faint anomaly (a target), a smudge to the untrained eye, on their sonar report.

In the fourteen years and eight diving campaigns since that original discover the Comité has recovered, catalogued, and photographed literally thousands of artefacts. In the winters historical research has been undertaken to place the Lady Sherbrooke within an historical context and to achieve a better understanding of the historical significance of the vessel's structural and engine design. Travel to England, France, and across North America has been undertaken both to gather research as well as to share the findings of the project with others.

The history of the dive is one that involves many people and organizations that shared an interest in rediscovering the past. As a way to share its findings the Comité feels it is appropriate that this website be mounted since the topic of the Lady Sherbrooke is one that all Canadian's should be aware of. It can not be overlooked that, similar to the Lady Sherbrooke, a vessel that carried cargo and passengers in a time of discovery, that this website also affords its passengers an opportunity to discover, or rediscover, far away lands.