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Q: I watch "The Curse of Oak Island" and would like to know if historian Doug Crowell and his family are from Cape Sable Island, N.S.

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Doug Crowell is definitely from Nova Scotia, but where exactly is hard to say.

He runs a research organization called Blockhouse Investigations, and the group describes itself as "a great bunch of Atlantic Canadians with adventurous spirits and a keen interest in the legends and mysteries of our region and beyond." But Atlantic Canada is a big place.

We can zero in a little closer. It's known that he works at Nova Scotia Community College on the northwestern coast of Nova Scotia -- that is, the other side of the province from Cape Sable Island, which is on the southern tip.

Oak Island is, of course, a pretty great mystery in that region, located on the east coast of the province.

But don't let all this "other side of the province" stuff mislead you: Nothing's very far away in Nova Scotia. For example, Oak Island on the east coast is only about an hour and a half away from Nova Scotia Community College on the other coast. And it's only about two hours from Cape Sable Island on the south coast.

This, as you know, makes Crowell the local guy on the show compared to its two main stars, Rick and Marty Lagina, who come from Michigan. Their interest is more in the treasure-hunting aspect, compared to the weird-local-history angle Crowell and his Blockhouse team take.

 

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