No fort is complete without a cannon or two. In the case of Prince of Wales Fort in Churchill, Manitoba, make that 22. That's the number of cannons that will be sitting on the stone fort's ramparts once a restoration project, now in its final phase, has been completed.

An added benefit of the project is that archaeologists have uncovered new information about the everyday lives of people who were posted at the eighteenth century fort.

To find out what's been happening at the remote former fur-trading post on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada's History Senior Editor Nelle Oosterom spoke with Cam Elliot of Parks Canada.