Davis Lake, Yarmouth County
Lone Cloud Papers – Mammoth bones?
I had the opportunity recently to read over the excellent Lone Cloud Papers which are available on the NS Explore web site in PDF format. What a wealth of interesting information.
How the MicMac made fire.Quartz striking chalcedony to generate spark and mushroom punk for tinder. I assume that the spores of the common puffball are what is referred to here. Thanks to tips here in NS ExploreI had excellent success striking fire using dryer lint as tinder, now to find a good dry puffball.
I was very excited to read about the large bones discovered by some MicMac in Southwestern NS. Harry Piers believed the bones to be parts of a mammoth. The area where the bones were found is given conflicting locations however and one major reference point is vague. The bones were found in barrens near Blue Mountain Lake according to one of the reports. I can’t find a Blue Mountain Lake in my mapbook and even my 1961 Gazetteer of NS doesn’t list this name. Another report about the bones indicates that were found somewhere east of Bloody Creek along the portage between the Clyde River system and the headwaters of the Roseway River which would be somewhere west of Middle Ohio. – A. Lohnes, Mar 18, 2003
Ambrose Church Geological Map of Nova Scotia 1889
Yarmouth Co. detail showing Blue Mountain Lake
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The link to Lone Cloud Papers appears to be broken.
Terry
Actually, I’ve found that the PDF is stored at the following link: http://museum.gov.ns.ca/resources/Lonecloud.pdf
The location of Blue Mountain Lake,after several hundred years,would look different,Watercourses change,lakes grow in.On Google Earth the closest I have come across is coords
42″02’26.50 N
65″32’55.50 W
The link is fixed, good to have the museum link as well though