Emotional’ links to Indigenous site in south-end Barrie still – BarrieToday
‘I can almost picture an Iroquois village here with the longhouses and the people. It’s a really important part of our history here that is going to be lost, unfortunately’
How the past is reflected in the future rests with today.
As the Harvie Road/Big Bay Point Road overpass construction at Highway 400 nears completion, thoughts of Indigenous history around the site — and around other areas of Barrie, too — remain.
Frances McGill was a college student back in the mid-1980s and has first-hand memories of an archeological dig on a site south of Harvie Road next to the 400.
Her thoughts and love of that parcel of land, and the importance of Indigenous history, have never waned.
