It's official! Diving for beer bottles , makes the national news! Alex Keith Halifax

[mctaggart67]

Re: Diving for beer bottles story moral: Don't Tell Archaeologists/News!

It's an interesting point about which level of government in Canada, provincial or federal, has jurisdiction over archaeological matters in territorial water zones (12 miles out from the shoreline). At first glance, it certainly seems to fall under federal authority, but there are precedents in Canadian law which see the provinces, chiefly under the provincial powers sanctioned under Section 92 of the Constitution Act (1867) (originally the British North America Act (1867)), Canada's founding constitutional statute, have some authority over marine archaeological heritage within the territorial water zones contiguous to their provincial landmasses.

 

[Lordbud]

Re: Diving for beer bottles story moral: Don't Tell Archaeologists/News!

State trained (via state college funded universities) archaeologists are funded by each state (in question). Thus each state's legislature pass laws to provide for the state's trained archaelogists (and other government soon-to-be employees) -- part of the government's game. Done without much lobbying at all. Passed in annual government funding bills.