Our Lands Speak: Featuring Archaeological Investigations at Queensville Site 1

My next five blogs will summarize the excavations at the five farmsteads which are the subject of my new book entitled: The Archaeology of Five Queensville Farmsteads: a 19th century Crossroads Community in the Township of East Gwillimbury, Ontario which has just been published in the Our Lands Speak Series as Volume 2. Let’s take […]

Sharon Temple National Historic Site and The Archaeology of Five Queensville Farmsteads

This year, 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the preservation of the Sharon Temple and its operation of a museum open to the public—and you’re invited to the celebrations on Sat, Sept 8 at 2pm. It is a happy coincidence that this year also sees the publication of the second volume in Our Lands Speaks, […]

OLS Reflections: Excavation of Armstrong Burial Mound, Rainy River, Ontario

Thanks for joining me again this week, as I share with you my discoveries around the excavation of burial mounds. Burial mounds are a unique burial practice of a few pre-contact Indigenous peoples in Ontario. These groups would bury their dead in, or under, mounds of dirt which resulted in earth structures. There were two […]