ASI has recently been involved with the Town of Richmond Hill in public programs in archaeology at the undisturbed fifteenth century McGaw site. This site was discovered by ASI during field work conducted for the Town of Richmond Hill Master Plan in 1987. It was recommended that an interpretive centre be built and that public programs be conducted at the site. ASI consulted with the Town in the design and construction of the A.J. Clarke Archaeological Interpretive Centre, the first of its kind in the province.
Public Archaeology was also a component of the LaVase Portage project conducted for the City of North Bay. Public programs in archaeology were held over a two week period at the early nineteenth century LaRonde fur trade post on Lake Nipissing.
ASI has also conducted numerous short term programs for the public at various sites throughout the province including Whitehern Estate in Hamilton, the 11th century Holmedale site in Brantford, Ontario, the 13th century Kings Forest Park site in Hamilton, the 18th century homestead of Colonel John Butler in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and the Burkholder II site in Markham, Ontario, to name a few.
Three of ASI’s partners are Directors of the Foundation for Public Archaeology (FPA), a not for profit, charitable organization dedicated to providing hands on educational programs in archaeology. FPA has delivered excellent programs in public archaeology throughout the province including the Longwoods Experience which operated out of a reconstructed Iroquoian village and focused on the Iroquoian occupation of the Caradoc Sand Plain west of London Ontario; the Dundee Experience that offered hands on programs in archaeology at the Late Iroquoian Coleman site near Waterloo, Ontario; the Front Street Experience, that involved programs in historic archaeology at the site of the third Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada in downtown Toronto. FPA also conducted other historic archaeological programmes at Schneider Haus in Kitchener, the Watrerloo County Gaol, Montgomery’s Inn in Toronto, and Raymond Burr House in Richmond Hill.
Archaeological excavations at the McGaw Site.
Screening for artifacts at the McGaw Site.
View some exhibits and displays created by ASI.
