Aurora Site
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The Aurora Site, also known as the "Old Fort", "Old Indian Fort", "Murphy Farm" or "Hill Fort" site, is a sixteenth-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the headwater tributaries o
Aurora/Old Fort Site (16th century Wendat Huron ancestral village), Kennedy Road, south of Vandorf Side Road, Whitchurch–Stouffville, ON, looking east.
Mantle Site
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The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated t
Aurora Site
…of land and the settlement was fortified with multiple rows of palisades. The community arrived c. 1625, likely moving en masse from the so-called Mantle Site located nine kilometres to the south-east in what is today urban Stouffville. The Aurora Site is located at the south-east corner of Kennedy Road and…
View of the site looking west from Byers Pond Way.
Mantle Huron Village Site, Stouffville, looking north to Lost Pond Crescent
Interior of reconstructed Huron-Wendat long house, Huron-Wendat Museum in Wendake, Quebec
Huron maple syrup demonstration, Bruce's Mill Conservation Area, Stouffville, Ontario