Alexandria Site

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Location: Near Present Day Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School
Date Excavated: 2000
Document: Professor Emerson, Early Indian Inhabitants of Scarborough Township (Refer to B010 in Archival Guide)

Located in North Scarborough, the Alexandria Site is the former home of a Huron-Wendat village. Archeologists were able to identify evidence of longhouses, sweat lodges and garbage pits. The discovery of the longhouses allowed researchers to unearth nearly twenty-thousand artifacts being uncovered. Some of these items included bone awls, bone beads, ground stone axes and pottery fragments. The site also contained remnants of seashells beads, which were significant to the trade networks of the Indigenous people of the region. These trade networks allowed for different Indigenous and European groups to participate in material exchange. The picture below shows the configuration of longhouses found at the Alexandria Site
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