Our Lands Speak Highlights the Patterson Village 19th Century Boarding House
Fourth in our blog series featuring key highlights of our Patterson Village excavation is the boarding house we investigated, which was near the western end of the village fronting on what is now Major Mackenzie Drive. The boarding house was discovered in that part of the Village we called Area 2 located west of the […]
Our Lands Speak Features the Patterson Village 19th Century Church
The remains of the church were originally observed as a large, dark brown stain in the yellow subsoil. Further excavation revealed a structure defined by mortared stone foundation walls which defined a rectangular structure 14.3 m long and 9.0 m wide. There was a small anteroom, perhaps a waiting room or foyer, extending from the northwest corner of the building which was 5.0 m wide and 5.0 m. long
Our Lands Speak: Insights on the Patterson & Brothers’ Factory for Manufacturing Agricultural Implements
Featured next in this month’s posts are certain aspects of the total excavation of Patterson Village by This Land Archaeology Inc. between the fall of 2012 and 2014—as documented in my book The Archaeology of Patterson Village: A 19th Century Company Town in the Township of Vaughan, Ontario, published by I C Publishing (2017) in a new publication series Our Lands Speak.