Happy New Year and compliments of the season.
Beginning the year 2019 in fine style,
on Wednesday, 9 January, 7 p.m. at the
Thompson Room of the North Simcoe Recreation Centre in Midland, our speaker
will be Janet Turner, and her topic will be titled “The Molson Site: A
Proto-Historic First Nations Settlement, Barrie, Ontario.”
Janet Turner, a secondary school
Teacher, was given the unique opportunity to run a Summer School Co-op
Education programme under the direction of Paul Lennox and Gary Warrick in 1985
at the Molson Site in Barrie. Co-op Education was in its infancy at this time,
so 22 chosen students from the five Barrie secondary schools (grades
9-12) received two Grade 11 credits in “Archaeology” for the instruction
they got over a five-week period from the archaeological crew. This was
considered to be a salvage dig as major development was imminent.
Janet was raised on a farm in
Innisfil Township and has always been intensely interested in the history of
the area. The fact that The Molson Site, being located off Harvey Road and in
Innisfil and not yet annexed by Barrie at the time, increased her enthusiasm
for the project.
Janet had been trained by Dr. Dean
Knight and Isobel Ball earlier at the Ball Site off Mount St. Louis Road and
had subsequently written a Grade 12 Curriculum based on her experiences, which
a Twin Lakes Secondary School teacher and other educators used.
Janet would like to share with others
her experiences at the Molson Site as well as the conclusions drawn by Paul Lennox
in his Archaeological Report, mindful of the spirit of Reconciliation.
The public is free to join us at no cost.
1 comment:
Sounds interesting! I will be happy to go and be a part of this first gatherring of 2019!!!!!!
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