The history of the Oak Island Money Pit

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The history of the Oak Island Money Pit

Oak Island, located in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, is a small 140-acre island which has been the subject of an ongoing treasure hunt since 1795. The earliest human occupation of the region dates back several thousand years to the ancestors of the Mi’kmaq, an indigenous First Nations people of Canada’s Atlantic Provinces. Europeans established permanent settlements in the area during the mid-18th century through the Shorham grant, an edict which off…