Politische Kontrolle über antike Stätten löst in Ontario Alarm aus
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-bill5-heritage-act-archaeology-indigenous-burial-9.6984496
Politische Kontrolle über antike Stätten löst in Ontario Alarm aus
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-bill5-heritage-act-archaeology-indigenous-burial-9.6984496
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Are we actually making any significant historical discoveries in southern Ontario? If there were major finds being made that could potentially be lost I’d oppose this, but if this is just another example of hog tying out government in red tape in the name of progressive kowtowing then do away with it.
When I was a kid this group of boys digging around in the local forest – which was slated to become a new development – unearthed a human skull. One of the parents called the police thinking it was a homicide victim. Forensics determined the skull was around 500 years old however, so the developers were halted for 2 or 3 years iirc while archaeologists poked around. In the end the archaeologists assessed that it was not an indigenous burial ground proper, but rather that the human skull was from a 15 year old girl (an important one given all the additional items buried with her) that fell ill while the group was migrating from on area to another and stopped, waiting for her to get better. She did not recover, so they buried her and moved on, so the site did not ‚qualify‘ for a full-on burial site and therefore no claim could be made to the land under the law as it was back then.
Of course, the development firm was livid and freaked out at the time, but after the several years‘ delay, they built those McMansions. This would’ve been in the 80s. Point being there are always new discoveries to be made, and there should be legal protections for First Nations when they are.
It does not surprise me one bit that Doug Ford wants to shit all over that to make him and his buddies even wealthier.
The largest and most complex ancestral Wendat village was discovered when they were building a subdivision in Stouffville in 2002.
At its peak in the early 1500s around 2000 people lived there. It had 3 wooden forts and 95 longhouses, took over 60,000 trees to build and had a municipal waste management trench system that moved waste from the center of the village to outside the palisades.
5% of the site was excavated by archeologists where over 150,000 were removed.
The site is now a storm water pond for water runoff from the nearby suburb. In 2017 they put up a plaque.
We complain about Canadians not knowing their own history but build subdivisions over a site like this.