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Surveyors say they've found Acadian settlement

It's a modern-day treasure hunt using ancient documents and, to some, the prize is much more valuable than gold or jewels.

Following an 18th-century English map and the journals of British Commodore John Byron - the man who led the English conquest against the Acadians - a Quebec archeologist thinks he might have found the village of La Petite-Rochelle, the last settlement that Cmdre. Byron burned to the ground.

"We're pretty confident that we've located the village that the Acadians had fled to, to get away from the deportation," said Michel Goudreau, vice-president of Quebec-based La Société Historique Machault, the organization that sponsored the survey.

Read entire article at Globe & Mail