Meet one of our four former partners and ASI’s Manager of Northern Ontario: Martin Cooper.

When he’s not cycling the 20+ km from Thornhill to the ASI head office, you might find this canoe-lover in goal on the ice hockey rink or planning his next winter camping adventure.

When I was 10 years old our camp cabin visited the Warminster site, which is considered by some to be the Wendat village of Cahiague visited by Champlain in 1615. The site was being excavated by the University of Toronto. I was amazed by what the crew was uncovering and later that fall I read Stuart Piggot’s Approach to Archaeology. That’s when I decided I wanted to be an archaeologist.

University of Western Ontario for undergraduate and the University of Toronto for graduate work.

Park ranger.

Yroquet,
an Algonquin ogemaw from the Ottawa Valley who commanded great authority in military and trade matters during the first half of the seventeenth century. Yroquet was an enigmatic individual who seemed to appear and disappear at all the critical times, meeting Champlain in 1609 on the St. Lawrence and a decade later hunting with 20 of his men in the Neutral Country and taking over 500 beaver.

A seventeenth century polychrome glass trade bead hanging from a Cheveux Relevé nose ring.

In 1977, Ian Kenyon and I spent two sweltering weeks excavating a wattle and daub covered longhouse at Liahn I, a Springwells phase Western Basin Tradition site near Lake St. Clair. Of course in the evenings we were able to find relief from the 100+ temperatures in the air conditioned confines of the Captain’s Chair in Mitchell’s Bay.

…sun exposure.

…tell stories.

…commute to work by bicycle from Thornhill and do long distance Randonneur events; play goal for the Alterra Padres (20^th year) and Thursday night pick up games (36^th year ); and go on canoe trips and winter camping trips.

1. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough – William Blake

2. To look good is already to go fast- Paul Fournel

…Onguiaahra, the yet-to-be-discovered principle village of the Onguiarahonon who were an affiliate of the Hatiwendaronk (Neutral), located somewhere near the Niagara River and occupied during the first half of the seventeenth century.

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