Oak Island's Hidden Engineer: Pierre Puget and the 1683 Master Plan Jerald Lee Harrah Jr., Independent Researcher, Pleasanton, California Published: February 2026

This paper proposes Pierre Puget (1620–1694), Louis XIV’s chief Toulon naval sculptor-engineer, as author of Zena Halpern’s handwritten French Oak Island map and architect of its South Shore stone triangle. Positioned as a midpoint marker perpendicular to the hydraulic shaft (90m north), the triangle initiated phased naval infrastructure: French drains, shipyard dredging, flood tunnels. Three years of map analysis connected “Le triangle de Pierre” to Puget’s biography, establishing Oak Island as a 1683 French naval depot prototype predating the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht by 30 years. Toulon archive destruction (1793) explains missing records; the map survives as primary evidence.