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When we think of a cabin, especially a

lost cabin, we usually think of a cabin in

the woods. It is the presence of trees

that bestows romance upon the cabin.

We live in a cabin, the wife and I – in a

big cabin, mind you, in the woods. We

built it, first as a camp without the

amenities (meaning water and power

and central heating and books) and

then we retrofitted it as a home, pre-

cisely because it is in the woods.

Like others who live in the woods be-

cause they love the woods, we have a

complicated relationship with the

woods. We have agonized about cutting

a tree down, and other times, we have

cheerfully butchered the buggers. For

years we nursed a clump of birch that im-

pinged on our living space. We built a

deck around them and coddled them

and admired them and they flourished.

Then we had to re-engineer the arrange-

ment, and the birch became firewood.

The fact that I am thinking about them

now, tells you that I miss them.

We had to clear a large area for a septic

field. Olga grooms that field. In many

ways it is a garden. And any twig that

dares to take root there, she rips up ruth-

lessly.

But nature is ruthless too. Nature kills

trees.

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Attention: Mark Reid, Editor-In-Chief, etc., Canada's History magazine

The most neglected and misrepresented archaeological find in Canada

As an historian, on March 25, I made a well-received presentation to the ScandinavianHome Society in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The subject was the Beardmore Viking Relics.Members of the audience suggested I set the record straight. This is my latest effort.

I have been researching and writing about the Relics since 1990, when I conducted aseries of field searches to rediscover the site where James Edward Dodd claimed he hadrecovered the relics on May 24, 1931 (the year was subsequently amended to 1930).

The February-March 2018 edition of Canada's History printed a feature titled "Finding Vin-land". Two paragraphs reference the Relics; I point out the most egregious error, to wit:"Not long after, however, it was discovered that the find had not been made on the miningclaim but in the basement of Dodd's landlord, J.M. Hansen."

First of all, some background. After the Royal Ontario Museum [ROM] had purchased theRelics in December 1936, a furious controversy erupted about the provenance of thesegenuine Norse artifacts. During the War, the furor abated, only to be reactivated in 1956after a series of articles was published by Toronto's Globe and Mail. The person respon-sible for reviving the controversy was Dr. A.D. Tushingham, Head of Art and Archaeologyof ROM. As ROM's files reveal, Dr. Tushingham was trying to get funding for a Committeeof Inquiry (subsequently elevated to the status of a Royal Commission) to do a thoroughinvestigation of all known facts. He also urged a follow-up metallurgical analysis of theRelics. Dr. Tushingham's appeals fell on deaf ears. Shortly thereafter, he learned that thediscovery site of the late Eddie Dodd had been lost, so that a proper archaeological ex-amination was no longer possible.

Dr. Tushingham did leave a valuable legacy. He pulled together all known facts about theRelics, summarized the pros and cons of the evidence, and published a little booklet in1966 titled The Beardmore Relics: Hoax or History? His last word on the role of J.M. Hansen:". . . After seeing the actual relics in the Royal Ontario Museum both Ragotte [who hadseen Hansen's artifacts] and Hansen on separate occasions said they were not the onesthat had been in the Machar Avenue cellar. Nevertheless, their earlier stories left a per-manent cloud over the Beardmore relics."

That cloud still hangs over the articles in your February-March edition of Canada's His-tory.

In this same magazine, a short, unattributed article, "The Norse, Decoded", publicizes acurrent exhibition in ROM. The article concludes, "Also on display is an authentic Norseweapon that was the centre of a twentieth-century hoax, the 'Beardmore Sword', whichwas planted in Northern Ontario in the 1930s in an attempt to fool archaeologists studyingthe Viking presence in North America."

What is offensive to me, and to many other historians, is the bold employment of the term"hoax". Furthermore, the revelation of the sword's discovery was not intended to "fool" ar-chaeologists. Eddie Dodd, until ROM convinced him he had genuine Viking articles inhand, always referred to them as his "Indian relics".

The photograph accompanying this short article is even more outrageous. It depicts asword all of one piece (JPEG enclosed). ROM's official photograph (included as a JPEG here)shows two distinct pieces, with some elements of the blade missing. A photograph in Dr.Tushingham's booklet clearly shows the notch made in the blade for purposes of a met-allurgical analysis. The sword depicted in the short article has resemblances to the orig-inal, but it is not the original artifact. Let us hope that ROM has not tampered with thesword simply to make it more photogenic.

Dr. Tushingham concluded the booklet with the following words: "At present the Beard-more relics lie in storage at the Royal Ontario Museum, in that particular limbo reservedfor objects of uncertain history. From the evidence, circumstantial as much of it is, opinionleads towards the view that their "discovery" was a hoax. This does not deny the possi-bility that Norsemen did reach the central area of North America. Perhaps some day un-equivocal evidence will be uncovered to support that theory. At present, there is none."

As an historian, I have found more evidence, none of which is unequivocal. I believe thereis more evidence out there. And I believe that a thorough excavation by a professionalarchaeologist may reveal some surprises. No one needs unprofessional people rootingaround Dodd's discovery site. Until such a dig is commissioned, I keep the location a secret.

Edgar J. Lavoie

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