If you ask most residents of Mississauga’s Britannia neighbourhood how long people have been living there, they’ll probably tell you since the 1990s.
But what they might not realize is that families made their homes in the area as far back as the 1300s. Before developers built a subdivision on the site about 30 years ago, archeologists were brought in to excavate. What they uncovered was the remains of an Indigenous village with around 40,000 artifacts.
“There are people living in those houses that have no clue what their houses are built on,” said Coun. Carolyn Parrish, who represents Ward 5 where the site is located.
“I found that kind
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