by Bill Finlayson | Apr 13, 2018 | Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
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...
by Bill Finlayson | Apr 9, 2018 | Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
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...
by Bill Finlayson | Apr 4, 2018 | Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
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...
