The villages beneath the city

From the Globe and Mail: The villages beneath the city.

When construction workers expanding Teston Road in Vaughan turned up the jumbled remains of at least 15 people this month, they may have been surprised. But the bones -- which were 500 to 700 years old -- weren't a shock to archeologists or aboriginal people. They were just the latest in a number of significant finds that have turned up all over the Greater Toronto Area, from a massive Iroquois village discovered under a Stouffville subdivision to the remains of a Seneca settlement by the Humber River that still reveals traces of its past when construction crews dig in the area. [continue]

Posted on August 20, 2005 06:34 AM. Filed under: Canada.