Digging up the past in Fort Erie

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Pieces of Canadian history are being unearthed on the shores of Fort Erie. When the archaeological team is finished its month-long dig we’ll have a better picture of what every day life was like before the War of 1812.

Along the Niagara Parkway, beside Old Fort Erie, John Triggs and archaeology students from Wilfrid Laurier University are starting an excavation that will uncover pieces of Canadian history.

They are digging and sifting through piles of soil and turning up pieces like porcelain teacups, butchered animal bones and old nails used in houses they built back then.

2 years ago Triggs and his team were on the other side of the hill digging up artifacts from a fierce military battle. “August 15, 1812, Douglas Battery was the site of the deadliest day of the war, within these grounds near Old Fort Erie is buried an archeological treasure.”

Thousands of artifacts, when pieced together will give everyone a clearer picture of what life was like in Southern Ontario more than 200 years ago.