Our Lands Speak: House 15 at Patterson Village

Two structures on the same plot of land? In my last post, I discussed what I thought might have been a raised storage building at Patterson Village. This was comprised of a rectangular pattern of very large posts/post moulds which defined a structure 14 m long and 7 m wide. I showed a picture of […]

Our Lands Speak: A 19th Century Raised Storage Building

One of the most puzzling structures investigated at Patterson Village was a rectangular pattern of large posts which formed a structure 14 m long and 7 m wide. In many cases, the wood of the posts was preserved, while in other cases, the wood had rotted away leaving a circular dark stain in the soil […]

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 […]