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Two members of North Cumberland Historical Society: Graham Brown (left) and Carl Demings (right)
20th Century,

Credits:
North Cumberland Historical Society

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In the 1970's the North Cumberland Historical Society started to gather historical information about this area in North Cumberland County, from about Tatamagouche to North Port along the Northumberlad Strait. They collected statistics, took measurements and inventoried possible historic sites.

Some of the people involved were writer Francis Grant along with interested people, John MacQuarrie, James Dotten, Carl Demings, Harry Brown, and Roy Kennedy of Tatamagouche.

Carl Demings and John MacQuarrie worked on maping the dyked area and then calculating the land under dyking conditions.

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Map of Tuttle Creek Dyke displaying calculations of the amount of land encompassed by the dyke
18th Century. Circa 1720
Tuttle Creek, Wallace Bridge, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Credits:
Carl Demings
John Macquarrie

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Cube of clay from interior of a dyke with shovel marks made circa 1730
18th Century. Circa 1730

Credits:
Heather MacPherson, Museum Assistant

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Re-creation of Acadian Dyke building methods; posts driven into foundation clay stabilizes the dyke
Modern Day
Wallace and Area Museum, Davison /Kennedy property

Credits:
David Dewar

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Re-creation of Acadian Dyke and Aboiteau
21st Century, 2010
Wallace and Area Museum, Davison /Kennedy property

Credits:
Jim Reeves
David Dewar

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Jim Reeves working on replica aboiteau, carving a tight seal for controlling device "the clapper"
21st century 2010
Wallace and Area Museum, Davison /Kennedy property

Credits:
Rebecca Reeves, volunteer

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Replica of an aboiteau being hand carved to be inserted into a dyke
Modern Day 2010
Wallace and Area Museum, Davison /Kennedy property

Credits:
Jim Reeves, Museum Assistant

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Jim Reeves shows school students how an aboiteau works and how they were built
21st Century. Circa June 2005
Wallace and Area Museum, Davison /Kennedy property

Credits:
Charlotte Moody

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Replica of an Acadian aboiteau, which when placed through the dyke allowed land to drain
Repica of 18th Century equipment. Circa
Wallace and Area Museum, Davison /Kennedy property

Credits:
Jim Reeves

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Research project on Tuttle Creek Dyke (On left is 2009 Nobel Prize winner Willard Boyle!)
21st Century, Circa 2006
Dyke on Tuttle Creek at Wallace Bridge, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Credits:
Charlotte Moody
Willard Boyle, David Dewar, Marion Dotten, Betty Brown

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Top of Tuttle Creek Dyke facing north-east; dyke fronts on Wallace Bay, facing north-east gales
18th Century. Circa 1730
Tuttle Creek, Wallace Bridge, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Credits:
David Dewar, Museum Curator

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Showing the difference between lawn sod (left) and Marsh sod (right)
21st Century

Credits:
Charlotte Moody

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Interior View of Dyke
18th Century, Cica 1730
Tuttle Creek, Wallace Bridge, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Credits:
Charlotte Moody