Evidence for Sixteenth Century Exchange: the Ottawa and Upper St. Lawrence Waterways

Summary

The distribution of European goods is reviewed for archaeological sites along these two major ‘highways’ to the west. Seventeenth archaeological evidence and historical data related to specific travel routes and Native community locations in what is now southeastern Ontario is used to reconstruct the sixteenth century evolution of Algonkian participation in the nascent fur trade.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2014   •
• Revisiting Facts and Ideas of Contact in the St. Lawrence Basin during the 16th Century

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): SYM-36,07