The Lawson Digital Exhibit In 2017, as part of his Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellowship in partnership with TMHC, Josh Dent wanted to generate a template for digital exhibitions that TMHC could use to provide extra value to clients and assist in disseminating information to interested communities. Interested in how to digitize older archaeological research and media, Josh had been assisting the Museum of Ontario Archaeology to catalogue documents from the Museum’s past. Those documents and binders full of old photograph slides and negatives pointed to one site that had seen a lot of fieldwork but relatively little in the way of digitization, the Lawson Site adjacent the Museum and TMHC. Original Museum of Ontario Archaeology Site Concept Using scanning equipment and software at Sustainable Archaeology to digitize slides and negatives, and…
Heritage, Indigenous Consultation and Land Use Planning Every conflict has more than one cause at its root. Heritage resources and human burials have been a causal factor in a number of conflicts between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples in Ontario over the last two decades. The events at Ipperwash Provincial Park and Camp Ipperwash and Douglas Creek Estates (Caledonia) are two well known examples of this. Lesser known examples include: McClung Road (Caledonia) https://www.thespec.com/news-story/6270770-no-ruling-on-caledonia-injunction-to-stop-native-protests/ Tutela Heights (Brantford), http://vitacollections.ca/sixnationsarchive/3247963/data Burleigh Bay (Decision October 6, 2017 Case No. PL150313) https://globalnews.ca/news/3795333/ontario-municipal-board-nixes-stony-lake-condo-complex/ and http://elto.gov.on.ca/tribunals/lpat/e-decisions/ Spine Road (Elliott Lake) http://anishinabeknews.ca/2013/06/13/serpent-river-first-nation-challenges-subdivision/ Southampton http://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/2018/02/08/stop-work-order-southampton-constrution-site/ and Saugeen Ojibway Nation Statement (1)(2) The list of concerns deals with impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ asserted and treaty rights with respect to their cultural heritage as part of the approval process for…
