Our Lands Speak: Queensville Doan Site, Part 1

This is the fourth blog summarizing our excavations at the five rural farmsteads in Queensville, a 19th Century Crossroads Community in the Township of East Gwillimbury, Ontario. We found the Queensville Doan site while digging test pits behind the recently vacated house on Lot 17, Concession 2. Our 73 test pits produced 345 artifacts indicating […]

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 […]

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 […]