Please join us for a presentation on the
Mnijikaning Fish Weirs
with
Janet Turner & Elder Mark Douglas
7 pm on Wednesday, February
12th
in the Thompson Room
of the North Simcoe Recreation Centre,
Midland, Ontario
Janet Turner
is an educator with the S.C.D.S.B. and a former
avocational archaeologist. Mark Douglas is an
elder at the Rama First Nations. Together they will present archaeological,
historical and aboriginal stories of this millennia old National Historical
Site located at Atherley Narrows in Orillia. As well, they will discuss the
preservation and protection of the 1000s
of wooden stakes embedded in the silt and a proposed interpretive centre and
bridge at ‘The Narrows’ that will foster awareness of the site’s spiritual and
cultural importance to the Huron and Anishnabek who harvested fish there.
Open
to the public - No admission charge
