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 […]

Our Lands Speak: Archaeological Investigations at Queensville Site 2

Thanks for joining me again, as we dive deeper in this blog series. As previously shared, these fascinating excavations encompass The Archaeology of Five Queensville Farmsteads, a 19th Century Crossroads Community in the Township of East Gwillimbury, Ontario. We’re quite excited to have just published this book as Volume 2 in Our Lands Speak, a […]

The Official Release of The Archaeology of Five Queensville Farmsteads, Volume 2, Our Lands Speak

Welcome back. As I discussed in my last blog, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the operation of Sharon Temple as a museum open to the public. After its closure in 1889, the temple sat derelict for many years until it was purchased by the York Pioneers and Historical Society to ensure its preservation. The […]