An Introduction to the St. Johns Stone Chinaware Company (1873-1900)
In honour of George L. Miller and Olive Jones and their Legacies in Historical Archaeology, a study of St. John’s Stone Chinaware Company. The St. Jean-Iberville district of the province of Québec was once known as the “Staffordshire of Canada” for its concentration of industrial potters and the manufacture of white-bodied table and toilet wares […]
The Death of Owen Lamb and Memories of Homeland
In 1903, Owen Lamb, a post-Famine immigrant from County Monaghan, died at the age of 66 in Etobicoke Township, west of the City of Toronto. He was buried at the Elmbank Roman Catholic Church cemetery some distance away from his residence at the time of his death. Elmbank, which served a largely Irish rural parish, […]
The Brantford Stoneware Pottery: Rise and Survival of a Domestic Stoneware Industry in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Domestically manufactured stoneware is common on mid- to late-nineteenth-century historical sites in Ontario. Maker’s marks on these vessels provide a means of tracing the resilience of Ontario’s emerging stoneware industry as it adapted to the technological changes and market competition of the period. The Brantford Stoneware Pottery was one of Ontario’s earliest stoneware manufactories. Vessels […]
Humans in the Americas during and before Last Glacial Maximum: personal and paradigmatic transitions from a decade of successful research in Mexico to a complicated panorama in Ontario
In 2010-2020 I conducted extensive research on hunter-gatherers in the northern mountains of the Mexican state of Zacatecas, right on the Tropic of Cancer, at over 1700 meters of altitude, while a university professor there. Currently a desert, the region had vast shallow lakes within endhorreic basins and narrow mountain ranges covered in lush forests […]
Tracing the Introduction of Rats Across 19th-Century Lake Ontario Settlements Using Archival Newspapers
The introduction of commensal rat (Rattus) species into Ontario is hypothesized to have followed the intensification of European settlement in the early to mid-19th century. However, the exact date of rat translocation is not precisely known. This study tracks the introduction and establishment of Rattus species across Lake Ontario, using archival newspaper accounts, and addresses […]
Dialing Up the WAMP-erage: Updating the Windsor Archaeological Management Plan
The City of Windsor was an early adopter of an archaeological management plan, having completed their original study in 2005. In 2020, Windsor commissioned a project team jointly composed of staff from Fisher Archaeological Consulting and ASI Heritage to update the Windsor Archaeological Management Plan—affectionately known as the WAMP—to bring it into better alignment with […]
An Introduction to the St. Johns Stone Chinaware Company (1873-1900)
This paper is part of the session in honour of Dena Doroszenko. The St. Johns Stone Chinaware Company (1873-1900) produced fine white-bodied and blue-bodied earthenwares to rival those of the potters in the United Kingdom during the late nineteenth century. Indeed, the St. Jean-Iberville district of the province of Québec where it was located was […]
A Trusted Authority on Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Dena Doroszenko
This session marks the occasion of Dena Doroszenko’s retirement from the Ontario Heritage Trust, where she has held the position of Senior Archaeologist since 1987. The Trust owns or has easements on over 400 provincially significant properties with built heritage that requires continuous maintenance and repair. Thus, Dena has designed and implemented numerous historical archaeological […]
Training the next generation of heritage practitioners: Perspectives from the Schreiber Wood Project
The realization that our archaeological field school at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) has operated, in its current form, for the last 12 years and has involved 200 students, and more impressively that the Boyd Archaeological Field School, run for 50 years, has provided 1500 students an opportunity to experience archaeology, has given us […]
The Humble Horseshoe Nail
Nails are common finds on historical archaeological sites in Ontario, including both nails for construction and those used to shoe horses- like the example depicted here. Aside from representing the activity of shoeing a horse, the presence of a large quantity of horseshoe nails can help determine patterns of use on a site. This is […]