Our Lands Speak: 1974: Getting Ready to Dig the Draper Site

In my blog post on January 2 of this year, I discussed the importance of my Ph.D. research in the field and laboratory in preparing me for my future career in archaeology. This was particularly the case when I agreed to undertake the complete excavation of the Draper site in 1975. Draper was a large […]

Our Lands Speak: The Queensville Milne Site

The Queensville Milne site was the fifth and final site discussed in Volume 2 of Our Lands Speak series entitled The Archaeology of Five Queensville Farmsteads: a 19th Century Crossroads Community in the Township of East Gwillimbury, Ontario. We discovered this site while testing a wooded area which had previously been the location of a […]

Our Lands Speak: Ezra Doan’s 1871 Diary

This is the sixth blog on our excavations of farmsteads in Volume 2 of Our Lands Speak series entitled The Archaeology of Five Queensville Farmsteads: a 19th Century Crossroads Community in the Township of East Gwillimbury, Ontario. In two previous blogs, I described our work at the Queensville Doan site occupied by Ira Doan and […]