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 […]

OLS Reflections: Pukasaw Pit Underwater Archaeological Survey, Lake Superior

Welcome back. Here’s another walk down memory lane. You may recall in my previous post, I described Professor Roger Deane’s underwater geological survey from Tobermory to Manitoulin Island during the summer of 1965 in which I was one of the divers.  Once we completed our work at Tobermory, Roger took us back to Lake Superior […]