Sir William Phips

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Departing from Boston, New England, Phips came to fight against Frontenac in Quebec, in 1690. He was bringing along 32 ships and approximatively 2,300 soldiers. After the siege of Quebec which lasted a couple of days, Phips' fleet backed out. On their way home, four ships wrecked.

One of the ships, Elizabeth and Mary, was discovered in 1994, at Baie-Trinité, on the North Coast, and has undergone subaquatic archeological searches. The wreck was resting at ten feet deep and at some three hundred feet from the shore.

Thanks to archeology, you may now live through one of the greatest historical moments ever.

Sir William Phips, 1690 was designed by CyberScol, thanks to a subvention of the Ministry of Culture and Communications, within the framework of the "Étalez votre science" Project.

The objective of this project is to favor educational exploitation on a shipwreck's archeological discovery which was part of Phips expedition, back in 1690. The site presents a scientific and historical approach which allow scientists of various domains to analyse the information revealed by artifacts found on the archeological site, to date them in time and to use those to enrich our knowledge of this epoch.

The site also invites students to participate in this archeological process in a working collaboration context so they can acquire the basis of the scientific approach.