Archaeology research on NCC lands in Port Joli, Nova Scotia
![Port Joli on a clear summer day. (Photo by Matthew Betts/Canadian Museum of History)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/port-joli-on-summer-day-Matthew-Betts-thumb.jpg)
Port Joli on a clear summer day. (Photo by Matthew Betts/Canadian Museum of History)
In May of 1604, Samuel de Champlain sailed down Nova Scotia’s southern coast and mapped all he encountered. Early in his voyage, he came across a harbour so beautiful that he named it Port Joli. Of course, he did not know that the indigenous...