Whitchurch-Stouffville museum Archaeology Alive exhibit on for full year

Interactive exhibit focuses on Jean-Baptiste Laine Site

Yorkregion.com
August 8, 2019
Simon Martin

The Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum and Community Centre is excited about its new year long “Archaeology Alive! The Jean-Baptiste Laine Site in Whitchurch-Stouffville.”

The museum has artifacts on loan from the Canadian Museum of History and the Huron-Wendat Museum.

Residents can learn about the Huron-Wendat archeological site while engaging with the interactive exhibit.

You can also enjoy a 3-D gaming experience, a virtual longhouse created in partnership with Ryerson University, and oral histories by Huron-Wendat Nation members.

“This is an important step of many steps for Whitchurch-Stouffville and the Huron-Wendat People,” Mayor Iain Lovatt said.

The Jean-Baptiste Laine Site, previously referred to as the Mantle Site, was home to a late-16th century ancestral Huron-Wendat community uncovered in southeast Stouffville between in 2003 and 2005.