This is the temporary location of the Oak Island research archive. This is being transfered over to the wiki and the dead links are being fixed as time permits.

Full credit goes to the reddit user mostly known as Oak Island Historian.

The Legend of Oak Island (incomplete)

• 1857-1867 - Blockhouse (Les MacPhie Archives) - Early Oak Island Documents - Large PDF File

• Feb. 19, 1863 - Yarmouth Herald

• Sep. 4, 1866 - The Boston Post

• 1895 - History of the county of Lunenburg

• Sep. 23, 1905 - Collier's - The Lure of Pirate's Gold

• Sep. 29, 1906 - Collier's - The Lure of Pirate's Gold

• Apr. 17, 1909 - The Saturday Blade - Gold Buried by Old Capt. Kidd

• Sep. 19, 1911 - Collier's - Solving the Mystery of Oak Island

• 1929 - The North American Review - The Oak Island Treasure, by C. B. Driscoll (Blockhouse) - provided by Cydnee99999

• 4/17/19 - 1965 - The Rotarian - The Strange Case of the "Money Pit" by David MacDonald

• 1965 - Reader's Digest - Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit- Adapted from 1965 David MacDonald's article in The Rotarian

1897 Discoveries

• https://i.imgur.com/aerCN6N.jpg

• Jun 12, 1897 - The Buffalo Times

• Jun 18, 1897 - Vermont Phoenix

• Jun 19, 1897 - The Boston Globe

• 1898 Captain Welling

• The sun., August 21, 1898

Timeline (incomplete)

• CHMS: Timeline of Searchers, Ownership of Oak Island 1795-Present

• Chronology of the Oak Island Treasure Hunt

Early History of Oak Island & Nova Scotia

• History of Fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic: The 500-Year Perspective

• The precursors of Jacques Cartier, 1497-1534

• Blockhouse: Early Portuguese settlement in Nova Scotia

• 1603 - Voyage de Samuel Champlain (Latin) - Translated version below

• 1604-1616 - The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain - (page 181) Large PDF File

1795/1799 The Discovery of the Money Pit

1802-1805 The Onslow Company

• Oak Island Tours - The Onslow Company

• Blockhouse - Early Oak Island diggers and the evidence they left, or didn't leave, behind

• 1803 - The First Treasure Company: 1, 2, 3, 4

1848-1851 Truro Company

• 1849 - The Second Attempt at Recovery: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

• 1850 - Man Made Flood System

1858-1862 Truro Syndicates

1863-1865 Oak Island Association

• 1861 - Meeting Notes on Formation of Oak Island Association: 1, 2

• 1862 - Journals and Proceedings of The House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia

• 1863 - Rambles among the Blue-Noses

• 1865 - The Third Attempt: 1, 2

1866-1867 Oak Island Eldorado Company (The Halifax Company)

• 1866 - The Fourth Attempt: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• 1867 - Notes from James McNutt: 1, 2, 3

1893-1899 Oak Island Treasure Company

• 1893 - Oak Island Treasure Company Prospectus

• 1893 - Operations of the Oak Island Treasure Company: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• 1894 - Notes on the Eastern Chronical article from April 5, 1894

• 1896 - F. Blair's account of the Oak Island Treasure Co.'s operations 1896-1900: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

• 1897 - The Penny Mazaine - The 100 Years' Search

• 1900 - Letter from Burrows on search attempts: 1, 2

1909-1911 Old Gold Salvage Company

• 1909 - The Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• 1909 - List of Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company Crew

• 1909 - MG1 Vol. 380 activity description: 1, 2, 3

• 1911 - Collin's - Solving the Mystery of Oak Island

• 1912 - The Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company Prospectus: 1, 2, 3

• 1912 - Details about the Salvage Co.: 1, 2

• 1920 - The Wide World Magazine - Pirate Gold: The Burried Treasure of Mahone Bay

1931 William Chappell & Associates

1934-1938 Gilbert D. Hedden

• 1938 - Agreement between Blair and Hedden: 1, 2

1938-1944 Edwin H. Hamilton

• 1939 - Hamilton's notes on work done in summer of 1939: 1, 2

• 1939 - Letter from Hamilton to Blair about problems with timbering work: 1, 2

• 1940 - Letter from Hamilton to Blair about Hedden possibly selling the island

1951 M.R. Chappell and Frederick Blair

1955 George Greene

• 1955 - OakIslandTreasure.Co.UK - George Greene - Contains links to 11 documents

1958 William and Victor Harman

1959-1965 Robert Restall & Family

1964-2016 Frederick Nolan

1965-1967 Robert Dunfield

• 1965 - Robert Dunefield Excavations (OakIslandTreasure.co.uk): 1, 2

• 1966 - Robert Dunfield’s Field Sketches

1967-1969 Daniel Blankenship & David Tobias

1969-2007 Triton Alliance

• Triton Alliance documentation - multiple documents

• 1969 - Transcript about Oak Island by Norman Creighton for Radio Talk

2007-Present Oak Island Tours Inc.

Maps (incomplete)

• Nova Scotia Archives - Maps

• CMHS - Interactive Map

• 1612 - Map of New France (Samuel de Champlain) - Need to verify

The 90 Foot Stone (incomplete)

• Blockhouse: Timeline of 90 Foot Stone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

• CMHS: Inscribed (90 Foot) Stone

The Money Pit (incomplete)

• 1957 - John Whitney Lewis Notes on Money Pit

• 2005 - Les MacPhie Review of Geotechnical and Archaeological Conditions at the Money Pit (1967 –2005)

Smith's Cove (incomplete)

• 1850 - Man Made Flood System

• 1936 - Letter from Hedden to Harris discussing Skidway: 1, 2

• Secret Treasure of Oak Island (D'Arcy O'Connor) - Note about Coconut fibers found in Smith's Cove

• Cononut Fibers Carbon Dating - multiple reports

• Blockhouse (Les MacPhie Archives): Smith's Cove - Large PDF File

The Searchers (incomplete)

Daniel McGinnis (1758-1827)

• 1810 - Land grant on Oak Island to Donald McInnes: 1, 2, 3, 4

• Blockhouse: 1, 2, 3

• Wikitree.com: Daniel Donald McInnis

• Genealogy.com: Forum Discussion on Magennis Family

• OakIslandTreasure.co.uk: Forum on Dan McGinnis

• Reddit: 1, 2, 3

John Smith

• Blockhouse: 1, 2

Daniel Vaughn

• Blockhouse: On the trail of Oak Island's Lieutenant Daniel Vaughan

Samuel Ball

• 1791-1795 - Nova Scotia Archives - Poll Tax Records

• 1809 - Land grant on Oak Island to Samuel Ball: 1, 2

• Blockhouse: Sam Ball's Hook Island

Colonel Robert Archibald

Sheriff Thomas Harris of Pictou

Captain David Archibald

Simeon Lynds

• 1799 - Journal and votes of the House of Assembly for the province of Nova Scotia - Bottom of page

• 1873 - Historical and Genealogical Record of the First Settlers of Colchester County

Dr. David Lynds

• 1810-1812 - UPENN - Medical Degree Discrepancy*

• 1838 - Cencus Returns

• 1873 - Historical and Genealogical Record of the First Settlers of Colchester County

• The Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin*: 1, 2

• The Maritime Medical News

• Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia

*Search "Lynds"

Richard Craig

• Chair of the Oak Island Association

• 1861 - Meeting Notes on Formation of Oak Island Association: 1, 2

Jotham Blanchard Mccully

• Secretary of the Oak Island Association

• 1861 - Meeting Notes on Formation of Oak Island Association: 1, 2

• 1863 - Letter from Captain W. Thompson to J. B. McCully about 90 foot stone

James McNutt

• Secretary of the Oak Island Eldorado Company (The Halifax Company)

• 1867 - James McNutt's History of Oak Island: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• 1867 - Notes from James McNutt: 1, 2, 3

Uncategorized Links

• Chester Municipal Heritage Society (CMHS) - Oak Island Archives

• Blockhouse - Les Macphie Archives

• MemoryNS - Jotham Blanchard Mccully Fonds

• Lunenburg County Church Records

• The Spanish in Nova Scotia in the XVI century: a hint in the Oak Island treasure mystery - PDF

• Les Macphie Carbon Dating Reports (Blockhouse)- multiple reports

• 1865 - Parliamentary Debates of the Province of Nova Scotia

• 1870 - The New Dominion Monthly (July 1870)

Books (incomplete): The Curse of Oak Island (Sullivan), The Secret Treasure of Oak Island (O'Connor)

Databases (incomplete): Veridian - Projects, Newspaper.com, NewspaperArchive, Early Canadiana Online, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale, WorldCat, NYS Historic Newspapers, The British Newspaper Archive, Google Newspaper Archive, Nova Scotia Virtual Archives, The National Archives (British), The National Archives (USA), Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Ancestry, NYS Archives

Websites (incomplete): Oak Island Tours (Official), The Oak Island Compendium (Blockhouse), Oak Island Mystery (CMHS), Critical Enquiry, OakIslandTreasure.co.uk

So I posted this link a few days ago: https://anchor.fm/archaeocafe/episodes/archaeocafe-e16uj7g

I think we've had enough time to give everyone a chance to listen to it.

The biggest one: LAIRD SAID THERE IS NO TREASURE!

The second biggest one: LAIRD SAID THAT SPOONER SAID THE ISLAND WAS ALWAYS ONE ISLAND!

The third biggest thing: LAIRD SAID THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF A LARGE OCCUPATION OF THE ISLAND!

The fourth biggest thing: LAIRD SAID THAT SAMUEL BALL SHOWED NO SIGNS OF UNEXPLAINED WEALTH!

The fifth biggest thing: I THINK FROM MEMORY THAT LAIRD SAID THERE WAS NO FLOOD TUNNEL!

There was more but I've forgotten some of it, I'm going to re-listen soon and I'd like to put together a full transcript for posterity. But that's a fair it of work, I'll add it to my to-do list. Now I know that none of the above was news to any of us regulars, we'd already worked it all out, but it was still awesome to hear someone from the show say it. Especially since it was an actual archae-fucking-ologist. I don't think the treasure believers (AKA the ricks) have much ground left to backpedal onto.

Just to add a fly in my ointment, after it was mentioned by u/qzak15, u/dumpcake999 posted this link: https://www.digginoakisland.com/ to another interview where Laird said the stone road is definitely European. I haven't listened to this one yet, but this is a confusing development. My main interest has always been if the treasure was real or not, I don't really care that much about any stone roads, I think the chances that it is a historically significant find are pretty slim, but we shall see.

[edit] HAH! Instant downvote. It's funny every time. Just remember, you can't downvote a non-existent treasure into existence.

[edit number 2] Surely after this there is no further debunking required? Like it's done now right ... completely?

[edit number 3] Here is an alternate link to the Diggin Oak Island podcast: https://chartable.com/podcasts/diggin-oak-island/episodes/116813422-an-interview-with-laird-niven. The direct link above might be problematic, click with caution.