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# CartoProblematica

discovering unknown treasure in the karst & cave mapping of the world & the reproducible evidence thereto

## Sitemaps

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## Posts

- [on hiatus](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/on-hiatus/) - There will be posts here, periodically, as time permits.
- [A "Stirling" map of Newfoundland?](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/a-stirling-era-map-of-newfoundland/) - A map at the Memory of the Netherlands is marked 1790. Might it be 1630's?
- [1854 Victoria, BC Survey](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/1854-victoria-bc-survey/) - Whilst researching land issues in the provincial Capital Regional District (Victoria, BC) came across an 1854 survey of properties. This is in the traditional lands of several Coast Salish First Nations, including "the Pauquachin, Tseycum, Tsawout and Tsartlip had villages on the Saanich Peninsula; the Scia’new and T’Souke were indigenous to Metchosin and Sooke. The
- [Parliament's Shoulder Patch](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/parliaments-shoulder-patch/) - This is a screenshot of a Parliamentary Precinct security officer's shoulder patch. Compare it to the image at Parliament's home page:
- [Whitestaunton Hypothesis](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/whitestaunton-hypothesis/) - Is the site at the centre of a network of military roads? And a fort(let) near Horse Camp Pool?
- [Tulsa, Oklahoma's Codex Canadensis](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/tulsa-oklahomas-codex-canadensis/) - Andrew of Ottawa Rewind has posted an article about the Codex, held at the Gilcrease Museum. The Codex and The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales are both attributed to the jesuit priest Louis Nicolase. Here are some of the canoes pictures.
- [the karst came after the horse](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/sometimes-the-karst-comes-after-the-horse/) - Two sinkholes opened along the path of an ancient Roman road, centuries after it fell into disuse.
- [An Ancient Path Along The Ottawa River](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/an-ancient-path-along-the-ottawa-river/) - I've been connecting the dots for my Champlain route-finding explorations, and came across a neat post by Andrew King. Andrew decided to retrace the ancient trading trail running along the Ottawa River, at Ottawa. This is the guidebook of that journey: https://ottawarewind.com/2016/11/06/a-neglected-ancient-path-along-the-ottawa-river/
- [Did St. Osyth Priory create the world's first Industrial Revolution?](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/did-st-osyth-experience-the-worlds-first-industrial-revolution/) - Channel 4's Time Team explored the village and parish of St. Osyth, Essex, England in Series 12, Ep.9, "Lost Centuries of St Osyth," February 2005. I did a bit of research into this. The resulting site investigation suggestions are here [direct link] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PC5QUEegcU
- [York (Toronto)'s War of 1812 Garrison Flag](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/yorks-1812-garrison-flag/) - Captured at York (Toronto) on April 27, 1813. Now at the United States Naval Academy.
- [Pseudoscience's strange enjoyability](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pseudosciences-strange-enjoyability/) - I love pseudoscience. It leavens the day somehow. Whilst doing geological research (looking at whether something I'm investigating in BC is an impact structure or eroded geologic dome (prob the latter), went looking for dome examples... And then came across someone who is claiming the Richat Structure in Mauritania is ...(wait for it)...Atlantis! Simply by
- [the Deep Trekker ROV - wow!](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/the-deep-trekker-rov-wow/) - Cave Sumpers & Underwater Archaeologists...you'll need one of these. I want one :-) Click the pic to go to the DeepTrekker website:
- [Extremeophiles = Mahone Bay's True Hidden Treasures?](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/extremeophiles-mahone-bays-true-hidden-treasures/) - Mahone Bay's archipelago includes drumlin-covered karst islands. Are ponds on such islands cenotes linked to the sea? Might they contain extremeophile bacteria?
- [Mahone Bay = Hypothesis Update](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/mahone-bay-hypothesis-update/) - My "Hypothesis Graveyard" :-) 17th Century Atlantic Seaboard limestone smuggling hypothesis: There was an error in part of the geology. That’s neat. It means more discovery – from this narrowing the physical search area from ~1200 km2, down to 138 km2, and thence down to 4.5 km2. A historian out there told me he knows
- [Acadiecology = Aboiteaux as Modern Ecological Infrastructure](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/acadiecology-aboiteaux-as-modern-ecological-infrastructure/) - Retaining upland water runoff using an ancient seaside field "dike/drain" field de-salting technology.
- [A Fine Chart is a Fine Wine](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/a-fine-chart-is-a-fine-wine/) - One of the neat things about a hobby like this is meeting people across Canada and around the world who share this love of geography, and exploration, and discovery. One project is Mahone Bay, home of Oak Island, the claimed site of the treasure of pirate Captain Kidd who was captured, tried, hanged and gibbeted
- [Nigel did it! (Doomsday got re-dated)](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/doomsday-got-re-dated-nigel-did-it/) - New analysis puts the date between 1098 and 1114.
- [Update: Mahone Bay](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/update-mahone-bay/) - Charts & Surveys circa 1592-1900 ~ image clips added to documents list: https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/
- [Horne Lake - the Trail is the Lake](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/horne-lake-the-trail-is-the-lake/) - It is time to be starkly explicit. My research suggests that the original, pre-contact, trail is the Lake and canoes on the Lake. Horne Lake's modern stakeholders thought the pre-contact trail went around the lake. And made an agreement with Qualicum First Nation that it has right of access to the trail in perpetuity. But
- [Paper and War](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/paper-and-war/) - Parliament, 1916: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-night-parliament-burned St. Paul's Cathedral, 1940: By Mason, Herbert, Daily Mail photographer - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7743/large.jpg This is photograph HU 36220A from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30835255
- [Funding secured: What Did 17th-Century Sailors Really Eat?](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/contribute-to-texas-am-u-experiment/) - What Did 17th-Century Sailors Really Eat? Funding achieved.
- [Col. Engineer Römer’s 1698 Memorial - Found a clue!](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/col-engineer-romers-1698-memorial-found-a-clue/) - I found a clue and following it up, back to England we go! Image: Magnifying glass on antique table. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnifying_glass_on_antique_table.jpg By Stéphane Magnenat (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
- [1857 Vignette of BC's South Coast](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/1857-vignette-of-bcs-south-coast/) - Digitizing sponsor - Boston Public Library Contributor - Boston Public Library Language - English
- [Boston Lime Warfare?](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/boston-lime-warfare/)
- [On the trail of a 1698 Survey](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/on-the-trail-of-a-1698-survey-report/) - We have one surviving copy of the Mappe at the British Library. But the Report appears to have been lost. Map Title: A Mappe of Colonel Römers Voyage to ye: 5 Indian nations going from New Yorck to Albany thence west to ye 3 Macquas Castle and from ye: last Castle called Daganhoge W:S:W towards
- [Horne Lake Trail - History updates](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/horne-lake-trail-history-updates/) - Pre-contact/early colonial trail - first list of references Primary mss & maps + secondary sources Notes on Captain G.H.Richards, RN Captain Richards led the Royal Navy's in-shore survey expedition - the results continue to inform Canadian charts Survey re-tracing project Using historical references + HMNAO's NavPac4 celestial navigation software
- [Finding Aid: British logbooks, 18th c to WWII](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/british-logbooks-finding-aid-18th-c-to-wwii/) - A survey of the range, selection and suitability of British log books for climatic research Wilkinson, Clive. Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ United Kingdom, 2006. http://icoads.noaa.gov/reclaim/pdf/British_logbooks_v3.pdf CLIWOC (Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans), circa 1750 to 1850 Using data from Spanish, Dutch and French logbooks, and ~5% of British logbooks.
- [BC photographs, 1867-70](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/bc-photographs-1867-70/) - BC photographs, 1867-70 held at The Queen's Royal Collection.

## Pages

- [Hypothesis Development Techniques](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/hypothesis-development-techniques/) - VALUATION & ECONOMICS FOR DISCOVERY From the activity of decades of developing hypotheses, I've developed: (a) the Landscape Economics Analysis technique described here. (b) The Proximity of Desire (POD) land valuation technique [link] is also useful to investigators. Hope this sparks new questions that lead to interesting avenues of enquiry. LANDSCAPE ECONOMICS ANALYSIS
- [Alberni to the Coast](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/) - Discovering a lost First Nations trail Posted on 27/12/2016 by innovadmin ** Example (1): Preventing failure of the Busy Place Creek "stormwater pond" project at Koksilah Industrial Area, City of Duncan, Duncan, BC, for The Partnership for Water Sustainability in BC. Initiative: Noticing and alerting Prime Contractor to the presence of an underground river below
- [(1684) Manuscript journal of the ship “Marianne”](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/1604-pilots-rutter/) - ~ citations to follow at later date ~ click the image to see a larger view ~ CORRECTION - with thanks to Marc-André Comeau - see Comment & Reply below A mariner's handbook of sailing directions, from the earliest days of sail when knowledge of unknown coasts might mean life or death. And an item
- [Did the American Revolutionary War start in 17th C Acadia?](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/mahone-bay-oak-island/) - Private triangle mercantilismA smuggler's entrepôt during the Ancien Régime? Did the revolutionary ideas of English colonists originate from the Acadia trade? Acadians were famously disdainful of the distant French King and his corrupt bureaucracy. New Englanders: Harvested the roots of American revolutionary thinking during the private Acadian trade. With all this private trade: Circumventing French
- [Horne Lake's Treasures](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/) - Alberni to Qualicum The trading trail across the mountains Project start: 2012 Discoveries Key A. Horne Lake B. Port Alberni C. 2016-forward About this Project: This project began during a search for the earliest reports of the caves at Horne Lake Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. The hunt led to road works, and
- [1698 Hudson R. Expedition](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/1698-hudson-river-expedition/) - On the trail of Römer’s Memorial (Report with accompanying Map) of upper New York State.
- [Finding a Lost First Nations Trail](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/pre-1856-enoksasant-trail/) - the Pre-1856 Enoksasant Trail HBC Archives (Microfilm at Archives of Manitoba) " order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"] Image #1 depicts the west/northwesterly portion of travel, winding its way from Nanaimo, to Horne Lake, around View Mountain down to the shores of Alberni Canal (archaic, meaning "Channel"), and thence north up the river, before it circles back
- [Re-Settling the Pocket](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/re-settling-the-pocket/) - [ie. Romans "re-settling" a Briton landscape]. Whilst watching the show, I got to wondering about the lay of the landscape; why the Romans would locate a villa on the 'high value' bottom land of the holding, where the manor house later got built? Coming up with the speculation here. Images: Whitestaunton Manor by Nick Chipchase
- [Regional Context](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/regional-context/) - Whit-regional-topos [regional heat-maps]whit-google-overlays [googled historic sites] Coming Soon [Show slideshow] text
- [Images & Sources](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/re-settling-the-pocket-2/) - Images Topographic Heat map: http://en-gb.topographic-map.com/places/England-66577/ Satellite Image of Village: Google Earth. Springs: Creek Image. Public Domain: https://pixnio.com/nature-landscapes/creek-stream/water-waterfall-wood-root-forest-nature-stream-river-creek2017-10-08-07-59-05-1100x733.jpg Seed and the Sower, photo by Larry Jacobsen: A bronze statue of the Seed and the Sower - a Prairie woman - sowing seed in her ''garden''. Part of the Cheyenne Botanical Gardens (CC BY 2.0): https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljguitar/1098939017 Windbreak trees
- [Site Assumptions](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/site-assumptions/) - Geography: Iron Age/Roman Era. Topography: Post-Iron Age deforestation has produced slope soil creep: requiring outward move of slope base (where slopes meet the marshy bottom and meadow lands of the village area). Springs: Three creeks emerge from Great Hill, the hill to the west of the valley, the key spring being south (up-slope) of the
- [Round Copse](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/round-copse/) - The Round Copse to the west of the Bath House site is intriguing. It seems odd. It shows on HM Government surveys back to at least 1809. See the small set of images in the gallery below. [Show slideshow] The name of the hill ("Great Hill") on which the copse sits intrigues, too. This got
- [Village Site](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/village-site/) - whit-01 [topo & weather]whit-village-speculations [proto lumps and bumps] Topography shapes our use of a landscape. The Celts worshiped at sacred forest groves and at water places. The presence of marshy land in a pocket valley fed by a spring gives rise to the speculation that this might produce conditions for veneration by the local Celtic
- [Whitestaunton's Roman Villa](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/whitestaunton/) - Whitestaunton Manor, Whitestaunton, South Somerset, England Time Team, Season 11, Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28131F_n47c The manor house grounds of the village has the bathhouse foundations of a Roman villa, with heated floor (hypocaust) and plunge pool. The bathhouse ruins were documented in the late 19th C, and then converted to a folly (a decorative garden feature)
- [Helpers & Contributors](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/peregrinations/helpers-contributors/) - { please send me links if acknowledgement has yet to be posted } Methods Historic survey techniques: United Kingdom Hydrographic OfficeAdmiralty Way, TAUNTON, Somerset UK TA1 2DN www.hmnao.com | www.ukho.gov.uk Volunteer Tax Credits: Much thanks to Bernard HighamConstituency CoordinatorHon. Jody Raybould-Wilson, PC QC MP. Office of the MinisterHon.D.Lebouthillier, PC MPMinister of National Revenue,
- [Mahone Bay - Charts & Surveys](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/) - This is an assemblage of nearly 150 charts and surveys of Nova Scotia scattered across the internet. They are hardly ever seen together. Enjoy! ~ more images to follow ~ citations to follow at later date ~ Sorting Rationale: 1710 = Year of transfer of the Nova Scotia component of l'Acadie from French control to
- [Charts & Surveys - Science](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/charts-surveys-science/) - ~ more images to follow ~ citations to follow at later date ~ click the image to see a larger view ~ Historiography Maps - web sources [Show slideshow] Geoscience - Nova Scotia ~ sample links ~ https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/geoscience-online/geoscience_about.asp https://fletcher.novascotia.ca/DNRViewer/?viewer=SouthWestNova https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/geoscience-online/maps-gallery.asp https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/mg/ofm/pdf/ofm_2012-085_d127_dp.pdf [Show slideshow]
- [Charts & Surveys 1800 to 1900](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/charts-surveys-1800-to-1900/) - ~ more images to follow ~ citations to follow at later date ~ click the image to see a larger view ~ 1800-1900 [Show slideshow] 1 2 ►
- [Charts & Surveys 1710 to 1800](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/charts-surveys-1710-to-1800/) - ~ more images to follow ~ citations to follow at later date ~ click the image to see a larger view ~ 1710-1800 [Show slideshow] 1 2 ... 6 ►
- [Charts & Surveys 16th C to 1710](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/charts-surveys-16th-c-to-1710/) - ~ more images to follow ~ citations to follow at later date ~ click the image to see a larger view ~ pre-1710 [Show slideshow] 1 2 3 ►
- [Additional Atlantic Charts](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/mahone-bay-charts-surveys/additional-atlantic-charts/) - ~ more images to follow ~ citations to follow at later date ~ click the image to see a larger view ~ Additional Atlantic Charts Pre-1900 1790? Map of the Grand Banks, held the Netherlands Maritime Museum. I suspect that this map may be from the 1630's (the era of the 1st Earl of Stirling's
- [1744 Duc d'Anville expedition](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/1744-duc-danville-expedition/) - I've noticed an anomaly whilst reading Pritchard's Anatomy of a Naval Disaster* Pritchard, James (1995). Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt817g7 Image: Action between HMS Nottingham and the Mars.By Samuel Scott - http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11860.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9916730
- [St. Osyth's 15th Century Mill Dams](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/st-osyths-15th-century-mill-dams-dams/) - Did the Black Death produce the world's first Industrial Revolution?
- [About David Huer](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/peregrinations/about/) - My particular skill is to think through vast constellations of clues - and get paid for this. Getting down to the deepest roots. In physics, what gets called “first principles thinking,” a mode of inquiry that relentlessly pursues the foundations of a problem.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle With a thinking style that is analogous to the deep learning
- [Funding Discovery](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/funding-discovery/) - Rethinking Opportunity Cost, Reward, & the Fundamental Nature & Value of New Information
- [Champlain 1613](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/passagean/champlain-1613/) - Guided by aboriginal people, Champlain trekked up the Ottawa River Into the area now known as the "Whitewater Region" (I've kayaked the Ottawa in this area) Portaging across the neck to (what is now) Mud Lake to avoid a series of challenging waterfalls And then, allegedly lost his Astrolabe along what is now called Buttermilk
- [Oak Island Science](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/oak-island-science/) - Investigating the Karst: Extremeophiles = Mahone Bay’s True Hidden Treasures?
- [Flungian](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/flungian/) - As in Far... I've been enjoying BBC's Time Team series on Youtube. And from this, doing internet-enabled sleuthing of things that pique my anomaly-noticing eye... Image: By Eluveitie [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
- [Closed Projects](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/closed-projects/) - These projects now finished to my satisfaction.
- [Treaty implications](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/treaty-implications/) - At Horne Lake, local people believed the trail went around the lake. Land agreements with the local Qualicum First Nation reflect this because the 1856 survey got lost. BUT the survey is exactly accurate for its time, points to the meaning of additional clues, and appears to be about to influence a treaty land claim
- [Horne Lake - Maps & Images](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/research-notes/references-maps-images/) - { coming soon – once a certain gallery plugin starts to work! }
- [Horne Lake - Docs & Data - pre-1856 Trail](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/research-notes/horne-pre1856-references-docs-data/) - 1856-57 Pemberton's Survey & Report - first series in (B&W); next series in (blue) 1871-86 Waggon Road - for future entry 1900's Right-of-Way - for future entry Joseph Pemberton In 1859, Joseph Pemberton assumed the role of Colonial Surveyor of CIVD when the HBC lease ended, and in 1861 named Surveyor General for the renamed
- [Research Notes](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/research-notes/) - { coming soon }
- [National Park concepts](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/national-park-concepts/) - Could a rediscovered First Nations trading trail become an Island-wide quilt of small parks?
- [Tracing the Pre-Contact Trail](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/hypotheses-horne-lake/new-explorations-collaborators-welcome/tracing-the-pre-contact-trail/) - This project is to trace the 19th C surveys (circa 1856-62) using modern nav tools. Period maps can be used to locate geographic features. The plan is to use HM Nautical Almanac Office's NavPac4 celestial navigation software . HMNAO staff provided brilliantly useful advice. {Wait for the pics to load!} " order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"]
- [New Explorations - collaborators welcome!](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/hypotheses-horne-lake/new-explorations-collaborators-welcome/) - A. Transcribing & checking references 1. Sorting references into stylesheet format 2. Sorting and annotating cartography references B. Transcribing & checking Pemberton's field notes 1. One of the missing 1856 survey tracing copies RN Survey Commander Captain Richards obtains tracing from Pemberton Handed to Richards at Barclay Sound, June-July 1858 May 2017, may have
- [Horne Evidence Testing](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/hypotheses-horne-lake/horne-evidence-testing/) - Hypotheses at: Nov 2016 An oolichan trail? If the shoreline characteristics of 2016 are significantly different from 1856, then post-colonial public works, and industrial and commercial impacts significantly altered the shoreline and ecological dynamics of the Qualicum River watershed and the Lake. Did logging change the water table, lowering the depth of the lake? -
- [Hypotheses - Horne Lake](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/hypotheses-horne-lake/) - Alberni to Qualicum A trading trail across the lake and the mountains Project start: 2012 Hypotheses at: Nov 2016 A. a. Route Archaeology/History - Pre-contact, fur-trading, colonial, early provincial eras The squiggle of the line on 1856 survey (plus associated clues in the historical record - canoes kept at both ends of the
- [Horne Mapping Images](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/horne-mapping-images/) - [slowly coming soon]
- [Captain G.H.Richards, RN](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/captain-g-h-richards-rn/) - Details about survey parties traversing Horne Lake Pass.
- [1871/72 Waggon Trail survey](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/alberni-to-the-coast/horne-lakes-treasures/187172-waggon-trail-survey/) - The Horne Lake road officially went out of service in 1886. The replacement - now Highway #4 - got built along the north shore of Cameron Lake through Cameron Lake pass. It was selected as it would be an easier grade for waggon traffic. This route could not go on the south side of the
- [Pacifican](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/pacifican/)
- [Mahone Bay Treasures](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/) - An entrepreneur/citizen historian's hypotheses about historical anomalies in early colonial Nova Scotia Are 16th-18th C industrial archaeology artifacts hidden at Mahone Bay? Is this evidence of a smuggler's entrepôt during the Ancien Régime? Project start: 18 March 2017 Clue noticed: Early April 2017 Hypotheses finalized: 04 May 2017 Status date: 04 Dec 2017 PDF Link:
- [1848 & All That](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/1848-all-that/) - A quick note about historical dates for my American friends and relatives. 1848 is my division of colonial history (transition from 1st British Empire to 2nd). Not 1776. Why? Well, that's the year that Nova Scotia achieved responsible government. The first outside the United Kingdom. Responsible government means a government responsible to Parliament. ie. Crown
- [Call, Don't Dig](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/peregrinations/call-dont-dig/) - Archaeological Law in Canada The law is clear. A suspected archaeological site must be reported. The reason? "The analysis of items left by previous generations, in the soil or underwater, is often the only way modern Canadians can understand how over 700 generations lived both before and after contact between Europeans and First
- [Mahone Evidence Testing](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/mahone-bay-oak-island/mahone-evidence-testing/) - Private triangle mercantilism A smuggler's entrepôt during the Ancien Régime? Project start: March 2017 Hypotheses at: May 2017 General framework - Sometimes a hole in the data is the data A. Route Archaeology/History - Archives Search for Testable Evidence "the bay of the privateers" Can local privateer activity be documented back to the 16th-18th
- [Mahone Bay - Docs & Data](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/references-docs-data/) - [sorting and citing not completed & new sources to be added] not downloadable (1784) A Plan of part of the County of Lunenburg including the Townships of Chester and New Dublin, and the Lands laid out to Loyal Emigrants and Disbanded Corps. Done under the orders and directions of H.E. Governor Parr. [By Charles Morris,
- [Peregrinations*](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/peregrinations/) - *either from Old French peregrinacion (“pilgrimage”) [12th c.],[1] or directly from the Latin peregrīnātiō (“journey”), from peregrīnor (“sojourn”), circa 1520s CE Website initiated May 2017 "Science aims for measurable results through testing and analysis of natural phenomena." About Karst Landscapes Caves form in different types of geology. One type is Karst - landscapes formed
- [Research Notes](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/research-notes/) - { coming soon }
- [Theory Notes](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/atlantean/maritime-puzzles/mahone-bay-treasures/mahone-bay-oak-island/theory-notes/)
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- [Citizen Discovery](https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/peregrinations/citizen-discovery/) - "Science aims for measurable results through testing and analysis of natural phenomena." Evidence-driven discovery - the citizen historian/scientist’s method: [wp-svg-icons icon="brightness-contrast" wrap="i"] - Test, measure & analyse observed phenomena for clues to the roots of historical puzzles. My goal, always, is to develop directions to test for reproducible evidence: Thoroughly research Be skeptical when observing puzzling
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