HST 527 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Graves Simcoe, Maple Leaf Gardens, Lake Ontario
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Toronto"s glacial past glacier, 20 000 years bp retreat of the glacier - formation of the great lakes (14 000 years ago) Toronto passage: connection between upper and lower great lakes. 11 000 - 9 500 bp - paleo-indian footprints found under lake ontario, 1908 (family walking up from the lakeshore) we don"t have much information or evidence. 9 500 - 2 9900 bp - archaic hunter and gatherer. 2 900 - 1 100 bp - early and middle woodland sizeable population. Ourishing because geography of the area of the area provides rich agriculture groups moving from one side of the lake to the other. End of iroquoian expansion; arrival of algonkian mississaugas. Baby point village built near the humber river location is far enough away from the lake, and provides defensive position (high position with view of river)
