The Ellery Site (BdGx -8), and The Dorion Site (BeGw-9)
May
24 to June 30, 2011
Under the direction of instructor,
Alicia Hawkins, of Laurentian University, and three teaching assistants (T.A.s),
twelve students attended the field school for five weeks, then we moved to the university
to start lab analysis and take tests on skills learned. The purposes of the course were to teach
practical field procedures, as well as to investigate a potential 15th century Wendat
site close by a known 17th century Wendat site, dug in 2008 by Laurentian
students under Hawkins's direction. It was speculated that this location was the
former Jesuit site of Saint Michel.