Twelve thousand years of Townships archaeology complicate a familiar phrase By Barry Husk
Special to the Record The oldest known trace of human beings in Quebec is not in Quebec City or Montreal. It lies in the Eastern Townships, on the shore of lac aux Araignées near Lac-Mégantic, where a family of amateur archaeologists spent years picking up stone tools that nobody could quite date. In August 2003, a student working under the Université de Mo…