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Transforming Village Life
Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2013
This 2012 Heritage Toronto plaque, one of four along the Huron-Wendat Trail, is located near the playground in Driftwood Park west of Tobermory Drive, north of Finch Avenue West. Here's what it says:
Coordinates: 43.76228 -79.51271 |
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Between 1450 and 1500, ancestral Huron-Wendat people transformed their village life. Small, unfortified communities merged into larger, more widely spaced villages built on hilltops for defence and surrounded by wall of upright logs. Violent conflict occurred between neighbouring villages, including one along nearby Black Creek father down this trail.
After two or three generations, relative peace was secured. A larger, more integrated village structure became a permanent feature of ancestral Huron-Wendat culture, which was also enriched by interaction with far-distant communities.
Other Huron-Wendat Trail plaques
How The Earth Was Formed
Parsons Site
Toronto's Huron-Wendat Heritage
A Map of the Huron-Wendat Trail
Related webpages
The Life of the Huron Wendat
Black Creek
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