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LABRADOR
Red Bay (excavations August 20October 8). Located in Red Bay,
Labrador, this site features a 16thcentury Basque whaling station and
an 18th-century Québécois fur-trading post. Gettingthere: take the ferry
from Ste. Barke, New Foundland, to
Blanc-Sablon, Quebec. FollowRoute
510east to Red Bay- the visitorcenter
is clearly marked. Appointment
necessary for guide, open to visitors
Monday-Saturday 8:00-8:00,Sunday
12:00-8:00betweenJune 1-October 1.
Camping at Pinware Province Park,
20 milesaway.Hotels within 50 miles,
restaurant nearby. Contact: James A.
Tuck, c/o Archaeology, Memorial
University,St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C 5S7 (tel.) 709-737-8872.

ANAD

NOVA
SCOTIA
Fort Anne National Historic Site
(excavations July 3-August 31).*The
present fort ruins date largely to ca.
1710.Excavationsinclude the originad
fort that was begun as a French habitation in 1636.Originally called Port
Royal by the French, the town of Annapolis Royal was the capital of Nova
Scotia between 1636and 1749.Getting
there:take Nova Scotia Highways 101
and 102.Contact: Birgitta W. Ferguson, Environment Canada, Halifax
(tel.) 902-426-9805.

ONTARIO
Historic Fort York (excavations
May-September). Historic Fort York
was the focalpoint for the founding of
Toronto in 1793. The fort, a British
military site, was strategic in the
M AN I T O B A
defenseof Toronto (then York)during
the War of 1812,and played an imporThe Forks (excavations July-SepEvidence
of
to
tant role in the economic and social
tember).
occupation
6000 B.p.has been found here, with development of Toronto in the 18th
major Archaic, Late Woodland, cer- and 19thcenturies. Gettingthere:the site
amic, fur trade, and industrial levels. is located in downtownToronto; drive
Gettingthere:the Forks is located in south on Bathurst Street, turn west
downtown Winnipeg. Site can be onto Fleet Street, then north to Garreachedby bus, train, and taxi; wheel- rison Road. Accessiblevia Bathurst
chair accessible.Numerous hotels and streetcar or taxi; wheelchair accessirestaurants nearby; camping at the ble. No appointment necessaryto visit
city's perimeter. Volunteersaccepted. site. Restaurantsand accommodations
Contact: Sid Krokur, 130Fort Street, nearby; camping within 20 miles.
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1C7 (tel.) Contact: Catherine Webb, Toronto
Historical Board, Stanley Barracks,
204-944-8325.
Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3C3 (tel.) 416-392-6907.
NEWFOUNDLAND
15land
(excavations May
Ferry
October). In the early 16th cen- Lawson Prehistoric Neutral Village
tury, Ferryland was a west country (year-round; excavations May 23fishing area. It then became Lord September 5). This year's project
Baltimore's colony, 1621-1637, and will continue the ongoing excavation
and reconstruction of a prehistoric
finally David Kirke's plantation,
1637-1673.Gettingthere:take Route 10 Neutral (Iroquoian) village, ocsouth from St. John's, about 48 miles. cupied ca. a.D. 1500. Activities will
The site is marked on the highway. include the reconstruction of a longAccessibleby bus and taxi; parts of house and palisade and the investigathe site wheelchair accessible. Ap- tion and interpretation of prehistoric
pointment not necessary to see the lifeways and crafts. Gettingthere:the
site, but necessaryfor a guide. Accom- site is located in northwestern Lonmodations, camping, and restaurants don, Vi block south of the intersecavailable in St. John's. Contact: S. tion of Wonderland Road North and
Tuck, c/o Archaeology, Memorial Fanshawe Park Road (Highway 22).
University,St. John's, Newfoundland Take Attawandaron Road off WonA1C 5S7.
derland Road North. Accessible by

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bus, train or taxi; wheelchair accessible. Appointment required for
guide. Restaurants and accommodations nearby. Contact: Robert J.
Pearce, Museum of Indian Archaeology, Lawson-Jury Building, 1600Attawandaron Road, London, Ontario
N6G 3M6 (tel.) 519-473-1360.
Public ArTrinity-Bellwoods
chaeology Project (excavations
Gore
mid-May-mid-October).
Vale, the home of a wealthy Scottish
merchant, was built in 1820,the first
brick house in western Toronto. Before the building was torn down in
1926,it had served as a family dwelling, a veterans' psychiatric hospital,
a 19th-century drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic, a boys' club, and
a university residence. Excavation
of this historic landmark will significantly increase our knowledge
of 19th- and 20th-century life in
Toronto. Gettingthere:the site is located in Trinity-Bellwoods Park in
Toronto's West End, halfway between Dundas and Queen streets,
just off Gore ValeAvenue.Accessible
by bus, streetcar, or taxi; wheelchair accessible. No appointment
necessary to visit site; restaurants
and accommodations nearby. Volunteers accepted. Contact: Carol Stimmell, Archaeological Information
Officer, Archaeological Resource
Center, c/o Danforth Collegiate &
Technical Institute, Room A4, 840
Greenwood Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4J 4B7.
SASKATCHEWAN
Camp Rayner Site (excavations
June 27-30, July 4-7). This site is
very large, exposed by the waters of
the 20-year-old South Saskatchewan
Reservoir. Most of the materials
recovered so far are from the Middle
to Late Prehistoric periods, dating
back some 5,000 years, but a halfdozen Early period projectile points
(notably two Folsom bases) suggest
the possibilityof an intact occupation
leveldating from 10-11,000years ago.
Gettingthere:the site is 4 XAmiles east
and 3 Vi miles south of Birsay, Sas-

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