Underwater Archaeology the Canadian Way, Eh! Fifty Years of Park Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Service

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

In 1964, Parks Canada’s archaeology program made the decision to immerse itself in the then nascent discipline of underwater archaeology. Over the last 50 years, what is now the Underwater Archaeology Service (UAS) of Parks Canada has developed an expertise specific to an immense, relatively unoccupied, Nordic territory. From the early efforts to support a developing National Historic Site program and large-scale excavations through to the management of cultural resources, the changing mandate of the UAS has required periodical realignments of its operations. This session will reflect on an evolving Canadian approach to underwater archaeology and show through thematic presentations how the UAS continues has addressed over the years the challenges imposed by a very focused mandate within a National Park system over a formidable landscape spanning from ocean to ocean to ocean.

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  1. Bringing 50 Years of Underwater Archaeology from Parks Canada to the Public (2014)
  2. The Challenge of the Arctic (2014)
  3. Finding Your Way Through the Years: Looking Back at Past Position Fixing Methods Used at Parks Canada (2014)
  4. La place du site de Red Bay dans l’histoire de l’archéologie subaquatique de Parcs Canada (2014)
  5. Reassessing the 1760-Machault shipwreck site (1969-2010): from a site-specific approach to a battlefield archaeology (2014)
  6. Safeguarding the Great White North’s Submerged Treasures for Half a Century: An Overview of 50 years of Underwater Archaeology at Parks Canada (2014)
  7. Straddling the Shoreline: Parks Canada’s Near-shore Maritime Archaeological Inventories (2014)
  8. To Monitor or Not to Monitor; an examination of the strategy to preserve and protect the submerged cultural resources at Fathom Five Nation Marine Park (2014)