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john michie finds indian villages in hdlton editors note in lirt wvi history tory we fow of the history of these early indians who inhabited halton county this woh the story of john micmes coltetion of indian artifacts a portion of which ho has agreed to donate to a county museum should one bo established by roy dawns this is the story of john aalchre the only local archaeologist whose hobby to our know ledge has reached so far into the lives of those early indians who inhabited halton before the arrival of the white man in the 1600s in his home at 15 john st georgetown lies a comprehensive picture of these men and wo men who carved a living out of virgin forests quiet valleys and rushing streams his collection unlike other collections of arrowheads pottery and so on is complete because it includes the complete gathering of articles from one indian village in halton which john dug himself it took him five years of his spare time to complete ihe dig and anyone seeing the col lee tlon would appreciate the work which has gone into his findings it s a perfect start lo a county museum i feel proud to lei this story because john has never made public his findings before government owns findings his reason he explains is because the government some lime ago declared that any findings from indian villages are the property of the government they gather the articles send them to toronto the best few relics are chosen and displayed at the royal ontario museum this according to john is unfair to tell a storyjyou must fell the whole story fo give a pic turerat an indian village with a few choice pieces of rettcjs useless its like buying a car after youve looked at the steering wheel one hub cap and the rear bumper i d chuck the whole works in the lake before i d let them have it he declares his idea then is to put the whole collection on display properly labelled with someone in charge who understands the collection to tell its story to visitors a properly trained museum curator a good museum in a choice location and a large collection of all facets of halton s early days would be ideal how does one get interested in this fascina ting hobby i wondered as i talked to the col lee tion owner on four occasions first find is perfect well john was bprn in esquesing son of the late harold michie and mrs michie and brought up on the third line his uncle george bailey of hornby showed him an indian arrow head when he was 12 years of age and it im pressed john so much he wanted to know where ne might find more his uncle told him of two places to go and his search unearthed the most geometrically perfect arrowhead he has ever seen this gave him a good start and although his j interest was only for curiosity at that age he started into archaeology in earnest he felt that instead of hunting for treasure it would be much more interesting to piece together the history of each campsite as he came to it 1 wanted to compare their living with mine he explained he read books drew maps and studied every possible site he could find his collection grew and grew as his studies increased and he began to write a book on his findings he unearthed 14 campsites within a five mile radius right in halton and says there are more collection tort in fire then in march of 1953 a terrible fire razed his house and the collection books maps and everything was lost he sifted the ashes of ihe house and managed to recover many of his articles but some near perfect pottery and indian pipes were lost also lost was his prize arrow head to which he credits his hobby s start he had found only one village on which it was possible to make an accurate study all the others have been plowed and disturbed by man s modern machines he started to dig into ihis vil lage in 1952 and had lost some sketches and some relics from it in the fire he waited a year after the fire then began again to rummage through the ruins his dig was completed in 1958 the village was situated on a flat plateau of sandy soil with a large bank all around it where the ashes and refuse of the village were thrown into pits and burned five of i he so- ash pits were found also a sixth where the bones of animals and broken artifacts and poltery were thrown the area was well watered by a spuikj creek making an ideal site for the indians who founded the village four longhouses were unearthed ihe lonqc st 42 feel long and the smallest 20 by 15 feet inside the large onewere 12 or 13 poslholes fcv the bunk type beds and a four fool avenue or aisle running from one end of the crude building to the other six firepits used for cooking were found one fireptt for each family finds tee pees firepits besides the other longhouses john found three tee pee type homes probably coveted with bark or skin the largest was id feel in diameter and had three fire pits two for cook ing and one for fashioning weapons to the east of the main camp area were small firepits but no longhouses or ice pecs these pits were in a natural amphitheatre and it appeared as if this was ihe villages counsel area the whole sile covered between four and five acres ircl would probably have accom modated about 175 villagers other campstles uncovered would take up as much as iu 15 and even 20 acres some villog s he discovered are older than others trade wilh ihe whites started around the years idoo to 1610 and some villages show cd bijis of ir tele wilh the whiles one camp however seemed lo founded around ihe 1200 uses knife whisk shovel dinjincj of a village is a painful patience re quiring oh you must first sludy all records then iincf a spol you think might have suited a wan duiikj ltd id of indians looking for a campsite gociil drain kj a place lo hide and an abun dtince of wnlet were necussiry in each case the culm of the yround pliys a urge pari in thf d uvirinq of these villages ihe earth appears ink around ihe areas where ihe ash pits once burned i ik ictu il digging is undertaken not with shove is bul with a sharp knife a gaiden hand shovi i ind a wlnsk broom as each item is found ihe ground must he cleared from around il duel tlic hides lifted carefully from ihe soil john s i hidings lell much of the story of our prr dectssots tin ir teelh were very bad and a brew nude of tree bark was the only solution or a toothache no teelh were ever pull d nut no huh it r how rotten ihcy became t he y mubl hive had gingrenous mouths bad hreith iind a lot ol suffering john declares one burial ground digging up vill igi s is fine he maintains bul in ji lys iw ty from ihe burial grounds as much is j5 iblu he rxpltiins he ran across one bury many relics found in area john michie owner of the collection with an axe head found in halton onestop banking he wont be long in one lintf visit to hit local hank tic can do nil ins hauling even if it in- villus sending money half nay round the world he can handle money nutters tins easy con venient way because only a chartered bank provides a full rarrgt of hanking hemecs all under ont roof day in dayout in more than 4800 branches in canada bank customers arc miking dcjmsits putting aludliles into safely deposit boxeq lu nig or selling foreign exchange using all sorts of banking services at your local branch bank you can count on prompt courteous and personal attention to all your banking needs ing spot by mistake and decided lo dig it but hed rather leave them alone in his findings john unearthed two battle fields which were the sites of oul and out bat lies on one it was plain lo tell the story of ihis war 300 years ago from the position of the relics found he saw an ambush a heated battle and even determined the victors their art amaej him lis all a cross section of their way of life and i appreciate the way their artistic ideas came lo life through iheir clay and stone says the collector ho says ihey found great arlishc outlets through the menu factum of their pipes and pottery his collection contains too many articles to name here however in it oni finds a beautiful comb many pieces of wampum beads flint and arrowheads broken poltery axeheads tome inwks knives even a pair of crude scissors and an awl for leather working the pipes am amaz mg with short slerns and artistically designed bowls depicting human and animal facts many other hobbies and the owner is usl as fascinating he also collects old guns does beautiful ornamental iron work carves wood like a master loves hunting and snowshoeing and is enough of a wine con norsseur that he sometimes makes his own on top of lhi the avro employee is enough of a carpenter that he has built his own new homo near lirnehouso and moved into it tins wock not to be outdone john s w fo does aluminum etching and lealhurcraft so its not an idle household i found this man one of the most interesting i have ever talked to and his idnos about the establishment of a museum in h ilion county are usl as interesting but more about thai next week i zht frrtm jfrtt 9s eighly sixth year no 11 acton 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