We’re going way back this week for our local history feature. Never mind the early 20th century. We’re talking 3,000 B.C.
On the front page of the Cochrane Northland Post on February 20th, 1975 is a report from two archeology researchers from the Ministry of Natural Resources. They had spent the previous two years combing and digging in provincial parks and wilderness areas in the Cochrane District.
They said the so-called Shield Archaic Peoples built round houses ten or 20 feet in diameter, partly underground, along the Abitibi and Frederickhouse Rivers. They were big hunters of moose and caribou. These and other conclusions were arrived at by examining things like stone tools, weapons and burned animal bones.
You can read more about their findings in the archives of the Cochrane Public Library.
