GEO 793 Lecture 2: Week 2 Readings
7 Oct 2016
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Week 2: first stories : indigenous histories of toronto: tabor hill: located near today"s lawrence avenue east and bellamy road in. The above were examples of thousands of sites on the north side of lake ontario that share common cultural features like longhouses and mounds that indicate they"re iroquoian. South-central ontario has a complex history evidence suggests people lived here 11,000 years ago, when downtown toronto was under the water of lake iroquois, davenport road was the shoreline, and mammoths and mastodons were game of choice. Between 7,000 and 2,000 years ago, the shoreline began to look like the one we know today, incl. the scarborough bluffs and toronto islands. Between 600 and 1600 ce, corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers were introduced from the south and iroquoian villages began to take on their well-known appearance: multi-family longhouses. During 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, some people moved north to amalgamate with huron.
