Our Lands Speak: Exposing Unique Indigenous Artifacts at Patterson Village

Patterson Village continues to present new and fascinating discoveries. This week we discuss a feature which appears to be a unique find in excavations in southern Ontario. Since 2006, the majority of our work has been east of the Niagara Escarpment. It is there we worked on two Huron-Wendat villages occupied prior to about 1500 […]

Our Lands Speak: Featuring the Largest Pit Privy North of the Boarding House

Our investigation of the privies at Patterson Village continues. You may recall, in our last blog, we discussed an amazing box privy associated with the closing of the Boarding House after Patterson & Bro. farm equipment manufactory moved to Woodstock in 1886. Not only did this privy contain more than 11,900 artifacts, it also included […]

Our Lands Speak: Fascinating Once-in-a-Lifetime Box Privy Finds

Thanks for joining me again. In my last blog we discussed the box privies associated with the houses at Patterson Village, and today we examine the single box privy found northeast of the boarding house. This specific box privy was similar in size to the other box privies explored at Patterson Village. It measured 1.8 […]