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Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics
Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics

Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics

Date9/11/1946
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Original Toronto Star caption: Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics. It is believed site of early Huron village.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002046F
Country:Canada
Province or state:Ontario
Anthropology students are hard at work looking for relics of an Indian village which existed an estimated 450 years ago
Anthropology students are hard at work looking for relics of an Indian village which existed an estimated 450 years ago
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Amongst the hoo doos, or eroded dolomite shale formations, these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of th(...)
Amongst the hoo doos, or eroded dolomite shale formations, these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of th(...)
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Prof. T. F. McIlwraith, assistant director of the Royal Ontario museum's archaeological department, is supervising the work of this scientific party. (...)
Prof. T. F. McIlwraith, assistant director of the Royal Ontario museum's archaeological department, is supervising the work of this scientific party. (...)
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Aviation heritage is preserved by Bob Stuart, a collector of airplane relics who has opened a museum at Oshawa airport
11/6/1977
Royal Ontario Museum's Desmond Collins thinks mysterious wide-clawed 'killer shrimp' of 500 million years ago were probably not shrimp at all
Royal Ontario Museum's Desmond Collins thinks mysterious wide-clawed 'killer shrimp' of 500 million years ago were probably not shrimp at all
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I'm a lobbyist and make no bones about it, says Ivan Fleishmann, caught in a firestorm because of his link with the Ontario Liberal party
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10/29/1986
D. M. Hall and Walter Kenyon. Principal and museum curator examine find
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5/29/1972
Mayan Jade Head. Museum will toss for it
Mayan Jade Head. Museum will toss for it
3/23/1968
On target: Blues' quarterback Dan Feraday last week broke Jamie Bone's Ontario conference career record for most yards through the air, and now aims for Bone's national mark
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