Upcoming Black History in Ontario Events 2018 is shaping up as an exciting year for Black History events in the region. We thought we’d share several upcoming events, a couple of which have some interesting archaeological connections. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center Grand Opening When: May 4 – May 12, 2018 Where: 825 Depot Avenue West, Niagara Falls, New York 14305 On Sunday, May 6, 2018, archaeologist, historian and award-winning author Karolyn Smardz-Frost will

TMHC and the 2018 Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meeting This week the Canadian Archaeological Association hosts its annual meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This year’s theme is “Where the Spirit Resides“, based on the Anishinaabe word “Manitoba”. The Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee reverberate throughout this country, with archaeology being no exception. As the Ontario Archaeological Society recently adopted a new statement of ethical principles, the CAA also stands at a crossroads.

Timmins Martelle in the News: The Former Sault Ste. Marie Jail Two burials may exist on former jail site Elaine Della-Mattia, Sault Star, February 22, 2018

We live in a pretty big country. Including land and sea territory, Canada covers 9.98 million square kilometres. That’s a vast territory consisting of thousands of ecosystems each with its own operational quirks, patterns and idiosyncrasies. These ecosystems and the landscapes that encompass them cycle on timescales that can reach far beyond a mere couple of centuries. In surveying the scale of recent Canadian land-use (residential, agricultural, forestry, mining, etc.) and the relative swiftness with

TMHC and the Research Portal At the end of 2016, Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants together with Sustainable Archaeology @ Western University,  initiated a new postdoctoral fellowship funded, in part, through the Mitacs Elevate program. The goal of the fellowship is to theorize a comprehensive digital heritage information platform and, in doing so, redesign, streamline and augment archaeological and heritage information systems already present and in development by both institutions. One original system developed as part