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Written in the Ruins: Cape Breton Island’s Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement

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2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award — Shortlisted
Paul Chiasson reveals the chance that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.

From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was once regarded as strange. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, a minimum of a century before any attempt at European settlement within the region, the explorer John Cabot had referred to Cape Breton as the “Island of Seven Cities.” 

The indigenous people of the region, the Mi’kmaq, were the one aboriginal people of North The united states who had a written language when Europeans first arrived. This writing, clothing, and customs also suggested an early Chinese presence.

In Written within the Ruins, Chiasson investigates the ruins at St. Peters within the southern a part of the island, where evidence brought to light supports a theory that could answer the entire questions raised by the island’s curious, unresolved history.

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