From Canada.com: Baker has archeologists hot on trail of Ville Marie fort.
One of Montreal's first settlers might have been a careless and messy baker.
After he made bread for the settlers, he raked the coals out of the oven and onto the floor.
Those quickly forgotten remains are part of archeologist Brad Loewen's set of clues to the location of Montreal's first settlement, Ville Marie fort.
"Thank goodness for sloppy bakers," he said.
In 1642, Montreal's first European inhabitants arrived. Their settlement, Ville Marie fort, would become the first on the island.
While historians and archeologists presume it was located on the Pointe a Calliere, where the museum of the same name now stands, the fort's exact location has remained a mystery.
Until now. [continue]
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