by Bill Finlayson | Dec 16, 2019 | 19th Century Whitchurch-Stouffville Farmsteads
In my last blog, I reviewed our work at the Yake site, situated at the east end of the farm property just south of Stouffville, which we were assessing on behalf of Fieldgate Developments. Towards the rear of that property we discovered a second location we called The...
by Bill Finlayson | Dec 4, 2019 | 19th Century Whitchurch-Stouffville Farmsteads
Welcome back to Our Lands Speak blog and the dialogue we began in my last post noting that the Yake site was one of two we found during our assessment of a farm located just south of Stouffville, on behalf of Fieldgate Developments. Our archival research revealed that...
by Bill Finlayson | Nov 21, 2019 | 19th Century Whitchurch-Stouffville Farmsteads
Sometimes, the coincidences in my work are just unbelievable. In 2016, we got a call from Fieldgate Developments to undertake an assessment of a newly acquired property on the 10th line in Whitchurch-Stouffville. Our assessment discovered two 19th century sites—Yake...