Montreal office site may be Iroquois burial ground
Sir William Dawson 1884 My eye was drawn to this article as it passed my facebook feed the other day, as one that certainly requires more study, and fits well within the remit for this blog, so lets have a look at it then! Of course, the title of this article suggests a burial ground , but the reality is both more mundane, and, in other ways more exciting than that. This story is about the Dawson Site . Found in 1860, the Dawson site, so named due to the work there by John William Dawson ; it was an Iroquoian village and thousands of artefacts were found there, as listed in the link above for the site, most of which were concurrent with a village. Yes, 25 burials were also found, with a possibility of over 100 still in place. Hochelaga, circa 1535 I heard an interview with a local archaeologist on the radio yesterday evening, (so no source to link to, but it was likely the same one quoted in the above article) that suggested that, yes, there was the possibility o...