The Alexandra Site (2) Commemorative Plaque, 2008
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Resource ID
4903
Access
Open
Address
L'Amoreaux North Park
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2008
Historical Themes
Archaeological Heritage, Indigenous Heritage
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Rights
Heritage Toronto
Time Period
Pre-colonization
Caption
The Alexandra Site (2) Commemorative Plaque, 2008
Description
Constructed without palisades the aboriginal village excavated here was probably not threatened by extensive warfare. Its people lived together as extended families in sixteen longhouses the earliest of which were built at the site's southern edge. Later houses were added to the north while the older longhouses were frequently rebuilt throughout the site. Likely used to communicate with the spirit world sweat lodges were social venues which may have helped to form and maintain relationships between newcomers and residents.
Over the roughly 40 years of their stay here the people of this village eventually exhausted the surrounding land of its nutrients and resources. As was their custom they then moved to another site leaving this one to return to meadow and forest.
Carefully documented the Alexandra site and its artifacts highlight the long history of human habitation in what is now the City of Toronto.
Marker lat / long: 43.812944, -79.306462 (WGS84)