Ontario Archaeological Society
Toronto Chapter

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2011/2012 Meetings:
April 18, 2012
May 16, 2012

Time:
7:30 PM

Place:
Room 246, Second Floor Board Room
Anthropology Building,
19 Russell St.,
University of Toronto campus
[MAP look for "PA" at the corner of Russell and Huron]

President:
Janice Teichroeb

Vice President:
Marti Latta

Treasurer:
Jane Simser

Secretary:
Annie Gould

Profile Editor:
Amanda Parks

Program Convener:
Mima Kapches

Website Editor:
Janice Teichroeb

Current Edition of Profile

February 2012

Past Editions of Profile

Ontario Archaeological Society website

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Dr. Marti Latta, University of Toronto

Warminster Revisited

Over the past 60 years, thousands of students from the University of Toronto have carried out excavations at the Warminster Site, aka Champlain's Cahiague, north of Orillia, Ontario. This will be a sample of insights from those excavations, including evidence for Champlain's presence at the site.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Dr. Conrad Heidenreich, Professor Emeritus, York University

Champlain’s Visit to Huronia in 1615-16: Where did he go?

This study is a renewed attempt by the author to re-approximate the location of the Huron villages visited by Samuel de Champlain in 1615-16 and correct some oversights made in his previous publications. Unfortunately Champlain’s descriptions are meager in the extreme. In his journey through the Huron country he visited well over ten villages, but the location of only three can be identified with any certainty, Tequenonquiaye, Carhagouha and Cahiagué. In order to augment Champlain’s descriptions, the visit by the Recollect lay Brother Gabriel Sagard-Théodat (1623-24) and the Jesuit Father Jean de Brébeuf (1636) must also be taken to account. Sagard visited Tequenonquiaye and later, the site of Carhagouha shortly after it had been moved; while Brébeuf was present during the last phase of the move of the villagers of Tequenonquiaye to Ossossane. Both Sagard and the Jesuits commented on Cahiagué after it had been moved, although they did not mention the village by name. The speaker will explain why he thinks the Warminster site is still the best candidate for Cahiagué.

The original French documents that describe the villages and events surrounding them will be re-examined as will Champlain’s estimates of distance which should not be taken too literally. Translations of village names by John Steckley will be cited in support of the speaker’s arguments.