Abstract

The cellar of a domestic building, ca. 1720-1745, at the first French settlement on Isle Saint Jean (P.E.I.) contained one of the few undisturbed archaeological deposits in this heavily farmed site. The property had belonged to Michel Haché-Gallant, considered the first Acadian settler on the island and ancestor of many of P.E.I.'s present inhabitants. Location of the cellar by EM-38 conductivity meter is discussed, as well as structural artifactual and faunal evidence of the Gallant occupation.