Archaeology Without Borders: Contact-Era Archaeology in Maine
My role as Curator of Eastern Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of History is to enhance the understanding of Canadian...
“Desserts” is “Stressed” Backwards: COVID-19 and Pandemic Foodways in ...
When her children were sent home in March 2020 due to the first COVID-19 lockdown, Saskatchewan mom Dawna Doell decided that...
Signs of the COVID-19 Era: Collecting Pandemic History
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced significant adaptation and innovation, while exposing long-standing inequities in Canada...
Allan MacEachen, the “Celtic Sphinx” (1921–2017)
Politician Allan MacEachen would have turned 100 years old in 2021. Although he had a number of nicknames over the course of...
Vaccine Mandates in Historical Context
As Canadians face another winter of COVID-19, vaccine mandates — the proof often required to work, shop or participate in...
Freshly Pressed: Place-Making in the Pretty Harbour!
Besides a freshly pressed orange, is there anything that smells better than a fresh off the press archaeological...
Daniel Weetaluktuk: A Community Archaeology Pioneer
International Inuit Day (November 7), proclaimed by the Inuit Circumpolar Council, provides an opportunity to celebrate the...
An archaeology wonder moment
As archaeologists, we are often asked about the best object we ever found. For me, what is most important is how we found it,...
Public help survey endangered archaeological sites
One of the fundamental parts of an archaeologist’s job is to find archaeological sites. There are many ways to do this, from...
Repatriation Project Reveals Remarkable Story – Part 2: Telling ...
In our previous post, we introduced you to an Inuit man who lived eight centuries ago. During the process of repatriating his...
Repatriation Project Reveals Remarkable Story
Part 1: The Story One of the guiding principles of the new Canadian History Hall is to present this country’s history from...
A collection of nearly 75,000 artifacts tells the story of Fort Fronte...
Breaking ground on a condominium project doesn’t always involve an international war. In the case of the Frontenac Village...
Solving a northern mystery
In 1954 at Native Point, Southampton Island, in what is now Nunavut, a Smithsonian archeologist excavated a partially exposed...
When modern science connects with the past
In 1912, and again in 1915, William J. Wintemberg, an archaeologist with the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum...
Nearing the end of the E’se’get Archaeological Project
When the public thinks of archaeology, they often think of a stereotypical dig site: an archaeologist with a large crew,...
New Severn Post Archaeological Project: Excavations at the Old Fort
This is the fifth post in a series by Dr. Jean-Luc Pilon on the work he is conducting as part of the New Severn Post...
New Severn Post Archaeological Project: The Excavations Begin
This is the fourth post in a series by Dr. Jean-Luc Pilon about the work he is conducting as part of the New Severn Post...
Objectives of the New Severn Post Archaeological Project
This is the third post in a series by Dr. Jean-Luc Pilon about the work he is conducting as part of the New Severn Post...
The Community of Fort Severn, Ontario
As part of the archaeological research project I’m conducting this summer in Fort Severn, I thought it might be useful to share...
Introduction to the New Severn Post Archaeological Project
Between 1981 and 1984, I undertook archaeological research along the lower Severn River in a remote area of northwestern Ontario....