I've descided to reseach salts made in Acadia but it didn't turn may results and most were unrelated or newer content. If Acadians did trade food, salt had to be one of those spices either sold or used. Our waters in Acadia are salty and would require very little effort, I think, to produce their own salts.
If Acadia didn't exist when these documents I'm looking for, it would have been called Nouvelle France. With this search, I found this site;
http://www.histoirepassion.eu/spip.php?article951
It does explain how marshes were used to produce salt. The tides were used instead of modern pumps, of course, and with sorts of dykes, closed off before the tides went out. Rain water could compermise the process and would have to be restarted but the 6" of water was left there to evaporate, crystalize and cultivated.
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