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<p><b>The never-before-told true story of an elusive eighteenth-century New Brunswick treasure, featuring dozens of illustrations and historical charts.</b></p>
<p>Tall tales of sailing ships, swashbuckling pirates, and lost riches abound in East Coast folklore. Blackbeard is said to have buried his treasure in Nova Scotia; legend has it that Captain Kidd hid his loot on Oak Island. Now <i>Nine Bags of Gold: The Real-Life Hunt for the Lost Treasure of Acadie</i> adds new intrigue to that lore.</p>
<p>In the late 1800s, an elderly man named Simpson travelled from Québec to Moncton, New Brunswick, with a French map from the mid-1700s. The chart, he claimed, pointed to a fortune—nine leather bags of gold—which had been buried in Acadie by mid-eighteenth-century French troops on the run.</p>
<p>Simpson partnered with local excavator Sherman Blakeny. Sponsored by Moncton?s wealthy elite, the two launched a massive search. Dozens of labourers plowed seven acres of land in Irishtown down to a depth of five feet.</p>
<p>What did they find? It?s a question author and skeptic Stéphane LeBlanc-Rainville has spent years researching.</p>
<p><i>Nine Bags of Gold</i> brings this never-before-told saga of eighteenth-century intrigue to light, excavating age-old legends, furtive protagonists, deathbed confessions, mind-bending plot twists, questionable treasure maps, large-scale digs, and tantalizing cliffhangers.</p>
<p>Features more than thirty illustrations, numerous infographics, and detailed historical charts.</p>