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Unearthing North America's Oldest Flour Mill | Edmonton News
An amateur historian from Connecticut is on a quest to uncover North America’s oldest flour mill—built in 1607 by French colonists on the Allains River in Nova Scotia. After decades of research, he’s used satellite imagery and lidar to spot a hidden square foundation in a tidal marsh, matching Champlain’s map—and even found evidence of Mi’kmaw fishing weirs nearby. His theory? The French built dikes that turned an island into marshland, and radiocarbon dating of those dikes may confirm it. This isn’t just about a mill—it’s about where European and Indigenous histories first collided. With…
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