by Bill Finlayson | Jun 14, 2019 | Archaeology, Draper Site, History, Ontario
In my last two blog posts, Digging for Houses and Palisades Part 1 and Part 2, I discussed how we explored large areas of the Draper site to discover the remains of the longhouses and palisades which had been preserved in the yellow-brown subsoil. This represented... 
by Bill Finlayson | Jun 3, 2019 | Archaeology, Bill Finlayson, Draper Site, History
In Digging for Houses and Palisades, Part 1, I discussed how we traced the outlines of houses and palisades on a portion of the Draper site which had been farm fields for more than a century. Draper was somewhat unusual in that most of the site was located in what had... 
by Bill Finlayson | Apr 30, 2019 | Archaeology, History, Ontario
Welcome back. In my last blog, I reviewed the excavation at the Draper site prior to the expropriation of the land for the proposed construction of the Pickering Airport. With the development of plans for airport construction, the Archaeological Survey of Canada,...