Local heritage group is looking for the remains of a historic Tantramar shipyard

Clinton Davis
CHMA News, Radiometres Local News Project, Community Radio Fund of Canada

The imagined replica of the Christopher Boultenhouse’s Shipyard | Photo: Clinton Davis

Part I of II. This summer, the Tantramar Heritage Trust began test digs in search of Christopher Boultenhouse’s 19th century shipyard, a site now buried under decades of mud near Sackville’s industrial park. With archaeologist Dr. Cora Woolsey, a geophysics specialist from British Columbia, and Mount Allison student Flynn Cleary on the team, the project aims to uncover traces of the blacksmith shops, steam sheds, and foundations that once powered a thriving port. What lies beneath could reshape how Sackville remembers its shipbuilding past. I sat down with Paul Bogaard for a History of Boultenhouse.

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