ASI at the 2015 Heritage Toronto Mayor’s Reception
ASI has been invited to be a feature at the Mayor’s Reception prior to the Heritage Toronto awards happening this upcoming Tuesday, October 13th at Koerner Hall. ASI, and our friends at Ellis Don, will be there to showcase the Queen’s Wharf schooner discovery, including a state-of-the-art LiDAR capture of the ship. Michael Carter and his […]
Toronto Carrying Place: A Shared Legacy
ASI Cultural Heritage division manager, Annie Veilleux, has been asked to give a talk for the event The Toronto Carrying Place: A Shared Legacy. The special one-day event is scheduled for Saturday, September 26th, from 9 am – 3 pm, at the Old Mill Inn & Spa. A number of academics, authors, and local historians […]
Walrus Magazine publishes feature on ASI project
In July, Walrus Magazine Editorial Fellow, Alex Tesar, accompanied Dr. Williamson on a site visit to one of ASI’s projects in Brant County. What came from that visit was a feature that touched on many subjects: pre-contact archaeology, Indigenous engagement, the CRM industry in Ontario, collections management and the sometimes-unfortunate ending for many of the artifacts […]
Government of Ontario and First Nations sign “milestone” political accord
Yesterday the Chiefs of Ontario and the Government of Ontario signed a historic political accord that will help guide the relationship between province and the First Nations. (Photo by Chris Young/THE CANADIAN PRESS) As most people know, archaeologist work closely with First Nations and their representatives. We do so at consultation tables for major planning initiatives and […]
ASI’s Bell Site dog burial subject of new publication
A new article, written by Eric Tourigny et al., features some interesting findings regarding human-animal relationships in the 19th-century, based on scientific analyses of a dog burial from the Bell Site (excavated by ASI in 2011). The study is now available in the latest issue of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. ASI loaned the canine remains to the researchers, whose work was based […]
ASI’s geopyhsical survey team helps uncover German bunker at Juno Beach
ASI’s geophysical survey team, Blake Williams and John Dunlop, joined the crew from WAR JUNK at Juno Beach battlefield in France to help locate any buried remnants of D-Day. The team located a German Tobruk machine gun emplacement, long buried in the sands. The discovery was filmed for the documentary that will air on the History Channel […]
Concord Adex moves 19th-century schooner to Fort York
The schooner discovered by ASI during Concord Adex development work at Bathurst and Fort York Boulevard downtown Toronto was successfully relocated to Fort York National Historic Site. The early-nineteenth-century vessel was lifted from its location on site and secured onto a truck where it was then driven to the museum’s front entrance. Fort York will […]
AIA Toronto Lecture: From Mastodons to Parliament
Dr. Ron Williamson from ASI will be speaking for the AIA Toronto Society’s Winter Lecture Series: The first European settlement of Toronto was simply a continuation of patterns that had been in place for thousands of years. The Indigenous occupants of the encampments and semi-permanent villages that lined the former water courses in the City left […]
ASI locates burials under Toronto church parking lot
ASI was been retained by the Archdiocese of Toronto to investigate a reportedly closed and relocated cemetery behind St John the Evangelist the church in Weston (Toronto), Ontario. While it is of course not surprising that a cemetery was associated with a nineteenth-century church, it is also to be expected that not all remains were disinterred […]
West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson
The film West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson was produced by White Pine Pictures and follows the mysterious life and death of the famous Group of Seven painter. On July 8 1917, Thomson died mysteriously on Canoe Lake, just as he was reaching ascendancy in his career. Why does Thomson’s life and art fascinate us […]