Colborne Street Site
Located in the City of Brantford, the Colborne Street Site was excavated by ASI in 1991 and represents a Middle Woodland period manufacturing site. Excavations yielded 1,975 culturally-altered lithic artifacts and two significant cache deposits.
Queen’s Wharf: Block 7 Excavations
The construction of a condominium at the corner of Bathurst and Fleet streets in the City of Toronto led to the discovery of a substantial section of the Queen’s Wharf, dating to the mid-nineteenth century.
Dykstra Site
Located on Bear Creek in Barrie, the Dykstra site is mid-fourteenth-early fifteenth century A.D. Iroquoian special purpose site excavated in advance of subdivision development.
Serena Site
Located in the upper reaches of the Red Hill Creek drainage in Ancaster, the Serena site is mid-fourteenth century A.D. Iroquoian village site excavated in advance of subdivision development.
Edgar Site
The Edgar site is a mid-nineteenth century Euro-Canadian domestic occupation that was excavated in Vaughan, Ontario. The artifacts recovered and the features excavated at the Edgar site point toward a domestic/farm type of occupation, with a likely date range of 1830s to 1870.
Fort York National Historic Site
This Stage 2 archaeological resource assessment at Fort York National Historic Site was prompted by planning for the construction of a new Visitor Centre. A ground-penetrating radar survey proceeded to excavation through five areas of operation in an area that the City of Toronto has identified for the facility.
Fort York Visitors’ Centre
ASI was retained to conduct a Stage 4 salvage excavation on the component of the site to be impacted by the building’s construction. The excavation included fourteen artifacts that directly linked this area to the Battle of York on April 27, 1813.
Graham Site
The Graham site was a small Early Woodland period (Meadowood Complex) ritual site, ca. 2,000-1,200 BP, excavated in Caledon in advance of construction of a stormwater management pond. The site yielded a large number of native copper artifacts, lithics, and a unique animal cremation burial with copper bead and biface offerings.
Hidden Spring Site
Discovered in Thornhill, Ontario, the 2008 Stage 4 archaeological mitigation of the Hidden Spring site yielded a settlement pattern consisting of two overlapping longhouses, two middens, and several exterior activity areas of a late fifteenth-century ancestral Huron-Wendat special purpose or cabin site.
Holly Site
Located on Bear Creek in Barrie, the Holly site is an early fourteenth century A.D. ancestral Wendat village that was also inhabited by Algonquian people. Excavations at the site were conducted in advance of subdivision development.
