She turned to the page, where on a medieval fishing boat, Jesus and his fishermen disciples floated in a sea densely populated by swimming cod fish. On a distant shore, a Northern woods landscape was visible. In the borders of this Canadian Maritimes resonant painting, cod fish, haddock, and lobsters were intertwined in a pattern of indigenous plants. Set also into the border was a map where Newfoundland and the tip of Nova Scotia were clearly distinguishable.

Pete and Merry, their daughter Anne Merry and her husband Nicolas St. Denis pulled their chairs closer to the table where the Music Box Book of Hours lay open. "The University Archivist told me that it was the first time she had seen The Grand Banks of Newfoundland so clearly pictured in a medieval manuscript," Sido said.

"Tracking other early maps of the Canadian Maritimes", she continued. "Caydance began with Samuel Champlain's magnificent richly detailed 1612 Carte de La Nouvelle France -- which visually documented the coasts of Newfoundland and Acadia and the Saint Lawrence River, all the way to Niagara Falls. From there, she worked backwards in time, looking for instance, at the inclusion of Newfoundland in Juan de la Cosa's 1500 Map of the World. The map in the Music Box Book of Hours was probably made during the Reign of Anne of Brittany. Thus, it is from the same era as Juan de la Cosa's map."