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Toronto's Huron-Wendat Heritage
Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2013
This 2012 Heritage Toronto plaque, one of four along the Huron-Wendat Trail, is located on the east side of Jane Street in the Hydro Corridor, north of Finch Avenue West. An identical copy can be seen on the southeast corner of Sentinel Road and Murray Ross Parkway. Here's what it says:
Coordinates: 43.76012 -79.5181 |
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The north shore of Lake Ontario, including present-day Toronto, was once the home of the ancestral Huron-Wendat people. Accomplished farmers and traders, they occupied numerous villages between AD 1200 and 1600, nearly always along rivers and creeks. They left behind artifacts that included remnants of their distinctive ceramic vessels, tobacco pipes, stone axes and bone tools, all of which help archeologists identify sites as being ancestral Huron-Wendat. One such village was a short walk from here, along Black Creek.
Another plaque at this location
How The Earth Was Formed
Other Huron-Wendat Trail plaques
Parsons Site
Transforming Village Life
A Map of the Huron-Wendat Trail
Related webpages
The Life of the Huron Wendat
Black Creek
Related Toronto plaque
Huron-Wendat Villages on the Humber River
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