This is a list of archaeological sites in
Whitchurch–Stouffville,
Ontario,
Canada: Both the
Trent University Site Designation number and the
Borden System
The Borden System is an archaeological numbering system used throughout Canada and by the Canadian Museum System to track archaeological sites and the artefacts that come from them. Canada is one of a few countries that use a national system to id ...
archaeological designations are given.
''Late Ontario Iroquois (1400 AD - 1650 AD)''
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Aurora (or Old Fort) Site (7Yk27; BaGu-27); 3.4 ha
** Location: Lots 14 and 15, Concession 6, West half
44°00'N 79°20'W** Date: 1550-1600 AD
* Aurora Isolated Site (7Yk24; BaGu-11)
** Location: Lot 15, Concession 6, West half
44°00'N 79°20'W* Chalk Site (7Yk20; BaGu-8)
** Location: Lot 16, Concession 4, East half
44°00'N 79°22'W* Clark Lake Site (7Yk23; BaGu-10)
** Location: Lot 14, Concession 5, East half. Entrance:
44°00'N 79°20'W* Foote Site (7Yk26; AlGt-158)
** Location: East side of
McCowan Road, north of
Stouffville Road 43°57'N 79°18'W* Horton-Devins Site (7Yk22; BaGu-9)
** Location: East of
Warden Avenue, north of Vandorf Sideroad
44°01'N 79°20'W* Hoshel-Huntly Site (7Yk21; AlGu-15)
[Cf. Barkey et al.]
Whitchurch Township
p. 124.
** Location: West of
Warden Avenue, on the south side of Vandorf Sideroad
44°00'N 79°22'W*
Mantle Site
The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region. Th ...
(AlGt-334); 4.2 ha; 90% excavated
** Location: Immediately west of Byers Pond Way, and south-west of Lost Pond Crescent
43°57'49.9"N 79°14'12"W** Date: 1500-1550 AD
* Preston Site (7Yk18; AlGu-9)
** Location: Lot 13, Concession 4, West half.
43°59'N 79°22'W*
Ratcliff (or Radcliffe) Site (7Yk25; AlGt-157); 2.8 ha
** Location: Lot 9, Concession 8, West half
43°59'N 79°W** Date: 1550-1600 AD
* Van Nostrand-Wright (or Vandorf) Site (7Yk19; A1Gu-13); 4.3 ha; limited excavation
** Location: Lots 14 and 15, Concession 4, West half; overlooking Van Nostrand Lake to the north-east
43°59'N 79°23'W** Date: 1550-1600 AD
See also
*
Whitchurch–Stouffville
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Draper Site
The Draper site is a Pre-Columbian era, precontact period (late fifteenth-century) Wyandot people, Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on a tributary of West Duffins Creek in present-day Pickering, Ontario, approximately 35 kilometres northeast ...
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Pickering, Ontario
Pickering (2021 population 99,186) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada, immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region.
Beginning in the 1770s, the area was settled by primarily ethnic British colonists. An increase in population occurre ...
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References
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