Disgusting NS updated MD laws. Please read...

[K1DDO1979]

https://cch.novascotia.ca/exploring-our-past/special-places/archaeology/metal-detecting-nova-scotia

 

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[Singlestack Wonder]

Typical socialist state.....

 

[Peyton Manning]

if you were not a foreigner you could come to the US, we could make you great again

 

[Peyton Manning]

don't worry, as soon as we annex you guys, things will change

Canada the 51st state!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

The way that is worded, I see no threat there. The same could be craftily worded for the USA too . If someone tried to morph ARPA, and then give you 'dire sounding' suggestions that "some cities are off-limits" etc.... Well gee, they say the same about here too. I mean , sure, what country DOESN'T have cultural heritage laws ? But they apply to public lands. Your link specifically gives ALLOWANCE for md'ing, so I don't find it threatening at all. I highly doubt there is prohibition about finding an old coin on farmer bob's land, nor is an archie likely to be "following you around on farmer bob's land assessing the age of each object you find".

 

[K1DDO1979]

The way that is worded, I see no threat there. The same could be craftily worded for the USA too . If someone tried to morph ARPA, and then give you 'dire sounding' suggestions that "some cities are off-limits" etc.... Well gee, they say the same about here too. I mean , sure, what country DOESN'T have cultural heritage laws ? But they apply to public lands. Your link specifically gives ALLOWANCE for md'ing, so I don't find it threatening at all. I highly doubt there is prohibition about finding an old coin on farmer bob's land, nor is an archie likely to be "following you around on farmer bob's land assessing the age of each object you find".

I'm going to continue on as normal. Just thought I'd share the update! [emoji106]

 

[Swaveab]

K1DDO1979,
That wording sounds as if they are shutting down all MDing. Good luck and don't get caught.

 

[wingmaster]

What a bunch of BS, there is not a coin made that the government doesn't know about or have some of them for historical reasons. It's like that here in my state as well I think they say a little less than a hundred years but nobody pays it any mind, the government has the money so if they think the historical value is so great why don't they fund a historical dig already. Like here they don't want you to get something for nothing and your not making a rich person richer, well we can't have that now can we. The universities here don't want anybody to detect either but they won't do a historical dig without someone giving them a grant to do it, in other words they won't do it for fun or for free though their so worried about it, the archaeologist want paid and would never do it for free and then on top of that they will take volunteers to do all the hard work while they take the pay and credit for all the finds. HH

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I'm going to continue on as normal. Just thought I'd share the update! [emoji106]

Sure. Those boiler plate things are SO easy to surmount (with a little reading correctly), and we ALL know that no one but a few purist archies care about such nonsense. But the problem with citing/linking stuff like that on forums, is this: The skittish crowd reads such things, and develops an "oh no, the sky is falling" notion. And guess what they do next to every other place they travel to ? : They pop in at travel consulates, hotel desks, city halls, border lawyers, etc.... Sending inquiries to bored desk-bound pencil-pusher bureaucrats asking: "Can I metal detect?" type questions.

And then guess what happens ? The "pressing question" gets bandied about, cast into categories like shipwreck salvor, or raiding the pyramids, or snooping into sensitive sites, or exporting gold bars across the border, etc.... Sure enough, someone likewise develops dire sounding "no's" to them as well.

You see how it becomes a self-fulfilling vicious circle loop ? And the more "dire sounding links" circulate, then that merely fuels the same "silly answers", to simply perpetuate the same thing. And then old-timers, who never had a problem or issue, are left scratching their heads saying "since when?".

So I groan when I see such links posted. All it does is to perpetuate the same nonsense you DIDN'T want. And never had anything to do with casual fumble fingers hobbyist level stuff in the first place (so long as you're not snooping into sensitive historic monuments, or crashing archie conventions, etc....)

 

[sprailroad]

I guess stamp collecting in Nova Scotia is OK, as long as you do not handle the stamps.

 

[Carolina Tom]

You better change your avatar message to something more appropriate like:

"Nova Scotia is a metal detecting paradise for outlaws"

I am certain that you know what to do, carry on soldier.

 

[b3y0nd3r]

YEA leave it in the ground to rot. The way that hodge-podge thing is worded, It would be NS being sued if they interfered with me.

 

[K1DDO1979]

Sure. Those boiler plate things are SO easy to surmount (with a little reading correctly), and we ALL know that no one but a few purist archies care about such nonsense. But the problem with citing/linking stuff like that on forums, is this: The skittish crowd reads such things, and develops an "oh no, the sky is falling" notion. And guess what they do next to every other place they travel to ? : They pop in at travel consulates, hotel desks, city halls, border lawyers, etc.... Sending inquiries to bored desk-bound pencil-pusher bureaucrats asking: "Can I metal detect?" type questions.

And then guess what happens ? The "pressing question" gets bandied about, cast into categories like shipwreck salvor, or raiding the pyramids, or snooping into sensitive sites, or exporting gold bars across the border, etc.... Sure enough, someone likewise develops dire sounding "no's" to them as well.

You see how it becomes a self-fulfilling vicious circle loop ? And the more "dire sounding links" circulate, then that merely fuels the same "silly answers", to simply perpetuate the same thing. And then old-timers, who never had a problem or issue, are left scratching their heads saying "since when?".

So I groan when I see such links posted. All it does is to perpetuate the same nonsense you DIDN'T want. And never had anything to do with casual fumble fingers hobbyist level stuff in the first place (so long as you're not snooping into sensitive historic monuments, or crashing archie conventions, etc....)

I agree. I was just angry and wanted to share it. I defiantly wasn't ever going to Facebook rant or bring it up anywhere else. Most people don't know much about it and better to keep it that way. If it became mainstream crap it would at the very least spook property owners into not wanting to risk ever giving permission or things like that.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Typical socialist state.....

Singlestack, please keep political comments out of the replies per our rules.