Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
Our Lands Speak: Technique to Collect Preserved Plant Remains
Find out how we recover seeds and plant samples from an archaeologic site with a technique called flotation.
Our Lands Speak: Exposing Unique Indigenous Artifacts at Patterson Village
Patterson Village continues to present new and fascinating discoveries. This week we discuss a feature which appears to be a unique find in excavations in southern Ontario. Since 2006, the majority of our work has been east of the Niagara Escarpment. It is there we...
Our Lands Speak: Featuring the Largest Pit Privy North of the Boarding House
Our investigation of the privies at Patterson Village continues. You may recall, in our last blog, we discussed an amazing box privy associated with the closing of the Boarding House after Patterson & Bro. farm equipment manufactory moved to Woodstock in 1886. Not...
Our Lands Speak: Fascinating Once-in-a-Lifetime Box Privy Finds
Thanks for joining me again. In my last blog we discussed the box privies associated with the houses at Patterson Village, and today we examine the single box privy found northeast of the boarding house. This specific box privy was similar in size to the other box...
Our Lands Speak: Box Privies at Patterson Village
Welcome back. In my last blog, I talked about pit privies as one of the two kinds of privies we found at Patterson Village. As you know, we find privies extremely valuable, especially given the insights they expose into how people lived during that time period. The...
Our Lands Speak: Featuring Pit Privies at Patterson Village
We’ve seen many amazing buildings and artifacts along our archeological journey, however, one of the most interesting types of features we encountered on our excavation of 19th century Euro-Canadian sites are privy pits. They may not sound exciting to you yet, being...
Our Lands Speak: Patterson Village Stable
Previously we discussed the findings of the village workshop and cobbler’s house, and this week we are pleased to share with you another fascinating discovery, the Patterson Village stable. We know from historical records that the Patterson & Bro farm equipment...
Our Lands Speak: Cobbler’s House and Workshop
Patterson Village has provided an interesting journey for myself and my team. Last week we brought you the details of the Seamstress’ house, and as promised, here is the story of the Cobbler’s House. I hope you enjoy reliving some of our experiences with us. House 14...
Our Lands Speak: Seamstress’ House at Patterson Village
More interesting discoveries at Patterson Village are unveiled. With this, includes the presence of 18 houses and one boarding house. These buildings were documented in the 1861 Canada Census. We also unearthed the foundation of the church which had burned down...
Our Lands Speak: 19th Century Patterson Village Water Sources – Part 2
In the last blog I discussed cisterns as one source of water for the occupants of Patterson Village. There were three other sources although one of these related to the post-Village occupation of Houses 17 and 18 by farm-hands working the agricultural fields of this...