Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meeting 2019 – Québec City It’s been one week since the Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA)’s Annual Meeting ended; this year hosted in Québec City in collaboration with the Association des Archéologues du Québec (AAQ). The Québec City Hilton’s halls were packed with archaeologists attending an eclectic array of sessions from Huron-Wendat Engagement to Archaeology of the Recent Past. TMHC’s contingent had a great time catching up with old colleagues and meeting

Lead Legacy – Addressing Unregistered Sites in the 21st Century On February 25, 2019, 11 academic, government, avocational and commercial archaeologists worked for six hours to try and push as many site lead updates into Ontario’s Past Portal as they could during that period. By 7:00 pm that evening, 70 site leads had been entered into the database and an additional 137 sites leads had been processed, many of which were geo-referenced and ready to

Archaeology Challenged – Lessons from Twenty Years Ago With the recent furor over Bill 66 and anticipated changes to Ontario’s Housing Supply Policy, newer archaeologists and heritage managers might think we’re living in unique and uncertain times. While perhaps uncertain, recent events resemble a similar sequence from 20 years ago. We are, in fact, re-living the past in many ways and that past turned out to be not so bad for standardizing archaeological practice in

Ontario Bill 66: Red Tape Rewind As with any significant changes in political leadership, those of us within the environmental assessment field are interested in any potential changes to regulations based on the incoming administration’s agenda. The recent election of the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario is one such event. With the recent introduction of Bill 66, the PC government is seeking to create a new tool for municipalities, in the form of a new class

2018: Provincial Legislation and Indigenous Peoples Participation Beginning in mid-2018 TMHC began posting blogs about a wide variety of topics related to Indigenous participation in the practice of archaeology in the province. Topics included the Provincial Policy Statement (2014), shared territories, community representative participation, the discovery of human remains, and community specific requirements for archaeology.  The common thread in these posts relates to how legislation and policies in Ontario do not reflect the principles or