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  • 2025 OAS Symposium - Windsor

    • October 17, 2025
    • October 19, 2025
    • St. Clair Centre for the Arts, Windsor
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    We invite you to attend the 52nd Annual Symposium of the Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS) from October 17 to 19, 2025! It is being co-hosted by the Windsor Grand River Chapters of the OAS. The conference will take place in downtown Windsor, Ontario within the lands honoured by the Wampum Treaties; agreements between the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Lenni Lenape and allied Nations to peacefully share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge the presence of the Wendat Peoples and the Three Fires Confederacy Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi. 

    Most events including sessions, an MCM roundtable and the Saturday after-party will be held at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts.

    The Friday night reception will take place at the Chimczuk Museum. Sunday's Indigenous Roundtable will occur at the Best Western Waterfront Hotel. Tours and workshops will also be available on Sunday.

    Early Bird Registration is available until September 30, 2025.



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Past events

October 25, 2024 2024 OAS Symposium - Thunder Bay
November 03, 2023 2023 OAS Symposium - Maawnjidwin: 50 Years of Gathering, Where Yesterday Meets Tomorrow
October 28, 2022 2022 OAS Symposium - Archaeologies of Resilience
October 18, 2021 2021 OAS Online Symposium
November 19, 2020 Ottawa Chapter - Dating Iroquoia
November 02, 2020 2020 OAS Online Symposium
March 19, 2020 Ottawa Chapter - Of Worn Suspenders and Archaeological Constructs: Reviewing the Site Concept Through Practice and Landscape Use in the Trent Drainage, Ontario
March 10, 2020 Grand River Chapter - Bioarchaeological Investigations of Life and Death in Rural Roman Italy (1st – 4th c. AD)
February 25, 2020 Peterborough Chapter - Seeing Conservation through the eyes of a Conservator
February 20, 2020 Hamilton Chapter - The Heritage Inquisition: A comparative Analysis of Archaeological Heritage Legislation from Around the World
February 19, 2020 Toronto Chapter - Hey Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone!: A Communities of Practice Approach to Ceramic Traditions in the Lower Great Lakes
February 13, 2020 London Chapter - Member's Night
January 28, 2020 Peterborough Chapter - Sharing Stories about Archaeology
January 16, 2020 Hamilton Chapter - Puce Site (AbHq-3)
January 16, 2020 Ottawa Chapter - The Assessment and Rescue of Archaeological Legacy: A National Capital Commission Initiative
January 15, 2020 Toronto Chapter - Members' Night
January 08, 2020 Huronia Chapter - AGM & Potluck
December 19, 2019 Hamilton Chapter - Holiday Variety Meeting
December 04, 2019 Windsor Chapter - Why re-excavate at the Early Woodland Defensive Earthworks Seaman’s Fort Site?
November 21, 2019 Hamilton Chapter - Dartmoor: A prehistoric ramble
November 20, 2019 Toronto Chapter - The Untapped Potential of Legacy Collections: Ongoing Zooarchaeological Research at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
November 14, 2019 Thunder Bay Chapter - Shenanigans at Perch Ripple - Fortuitous Finds from 2019 Fieldwork
November 12, 2019 Grand River Chapter - Investigating the Long-term Impacts of Ancient Pollution in the Looted Landscape of Wadi Faynan, Jordan
November 03, 2019 Building Relationships between Indigenous Monitors (IAMs) and Future Archaeologists: Present Concerns and Future Considerations
November 02, 2019 OAS 2019 Symposium Vendor Table Registration
November 01, 2019 Ground Penetrating Radar for Archaeology: Theory and Hands-on Workshop with tour of Fort York
November 01, 2019 2019 OAS Symposium - The Past Under the Pavement: Archaeology in The City
October 17, 2019 Hamilton Chapter - Archaeology and Wellbeing: Exploring the therapeutic impact of prehistoric landscapes in the present-day
October 17, 2019 Ottawa Chapter - The archaeology of Nova Scotia’s Southwestern Shore - And the Race to Save it from Oblivion
October 16, 2019 Toronto Chapter - A Life History of the Keffer Village and its place in 15th Century North Shore Iroquoia
October 15, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - Sambaquis - Brazilian shell mound sites
October 08, 2019 Grand River Chapter - In search of Carhagouha: The Tay Point Archaeology Project
September 24, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - Washeo Whiskiheggan: A Hudson's Bay Company Post on the Severn River
September 19, 2019 Hamilton Chapter - Canadians and The Founding of the Society for American Archaeology, 1934-1940
September 18, 2019 Toronto Chapter - "Politics and Dirt!" W. J. Wintemberg in Toronto
September 11, 2019 Huronia Chapter - Jim Shropshire
September 10, 2019 Grand River Chapter - AMPing Up Archaeology: Conserving Heritage Through Archaeological Management Plans
August 14, 2019 Huronia Chapter - "In Search of a Homestead"
August 11, 2019 London Chapter - Archaeology Day at Lake Whittaker
July 10, 2019 Huronia Chapter - "Flesh Reborn"
June 18, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - Archaeological Virtual Reality
June 12, 2019 Huronia Chapter - What is collaborative research? Working together to investigate Huron Wendat ceramic traditions
May 15, 2019 Toronto Chapter - Shirley's Box: The Highgate Mastodon Story
May 03, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - The Palaeo-Indian Tradition in Thunder Bay, Earliest Evidence, . . . At The Caribou Crossing Place, ca. 10,000 B.P
April 25, 2019 Ottawa Chapter - Washeo Whiskiheggan: A Hudson's Bay Company Post on the Severn River
April 23, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - The Avro Arrow Mystery
April 17, 2019 Toronto Chapter - Opening the Repository: Stories about the City's Archaeological Collections
April 10, 2019 Huronia Chapter - Alt-Wrong: Archaeology vs. the Populist Right
April 09, 2019 Grand River Chapter - Using Micro Computed Tomography to explore Ceramic Rim Formation Practices on a Late Woodlands Borderland
March 26, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - “Visualizing Franklin
March 20, 2019 Toronto Chapter - Inuvialuit Architecture: Archaeology of Cruciform Houses in the Mackenzie Delta
March 12, 2019 Grand River Chapter - Salvaging on the Coast of Erebus Bay, King William Island: An Analysis of Inuit Interaction with Material from the Franklin Expedition
February 26, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - Stealing Away Home: Archaeology and the Underground Railroad in Ontario
February 21, 2019 Ottawa Chapter - INSIGHTS INTO VICTORIAN GARRISON LIFE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FORT WELLINGTON LATRINE
February 20, 2019 Toronto Chapter - An Update on Recent Keffer Site Settlement and Pottery Analyses
February 15, 2019 Thunder Bay Chapter - A People's History: Slate Falls Through Memory and Material
February 14, 2019 London Chapter - Member's Night
February 13, 2019 Windsor Chapter - The Ward Uncovered: Archaeological Investigations of one of Toronto’s First Arrival Communities
February 12, 2019 (Cancelled) Grand River Chapter - Shari Prowse and Jim Keron
January 25, 2019 Thunder Bay Chapter - All About Pottery
January 22, 2019 Peterborough Chapter - Winter Story Time
January 17, 2019 Ottawa Chapter - IROQUOIAN BONE AND ANTLER TECHNOLOGY
January 16, 2019 Toronto Chapter - Members' Night
January 10, 2019 London Chapter - Culloden Acres (AfHj-90): A Small Paleo Site near Komoka, Ontario
January 09, 2019 Huronia Chapter - The Molson Site: A Proto-Historic First Nations Settlement, Barrie, Ontario
January 08, 2019 Grand River Chapter - Invitations of an Archaeology of Global Colonialisms and Contested Heritage: Exploring the Bath House-Hotel in Nevis - Neal Ferris
December 11, 2018 Grand River Chapter - The Ward Uncovered: Archaeological Investigations of one of Toronto’s First Arrival Communities
December 11, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - Christmas Gathering
December 05, 2018 Windsor Chapter - December Meeting/Social
November 27, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - The Ward Uncovered: Archaeological Investigations of one of Toronto’s First Arrival Communities
November 21, 2018 Toronto Chapter - CRM Behind the Scenes
November 13, 2018 Grand River Chapter - The Iler Earthworks
November 11, 2018 OAS 2018 Symposium Sunday Bus Tour
November 11, 2018 OAS 2018 Sunday Workshop - Does that Apply to Me??? Best Practices for Avocational and Chapter-based Archaeology Projects on Indigenous Lands
November 10, 2018 OAS 2018 Symposium Vendor Table Registration
November 09, 2018 OAS 2018 Friday Workshop - Using Archival Records in Archaeological and Family History Research
November 09, 2018 2018 OAS Symposium - Connections and Pathways through the Past
November 08, 2018 London Chapter - No November Meeting
October 23, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This Is Our Territory
October 18, 2018 Ottawa Chapter - Canadians and the Founding of the Society for American Archaeology, 1934-1942
October 17, 2018 Toronto Chapter - The Unexpected Finds at AhHa-317, a Late Woodland Habitation Site in Hamilton, Ontario
October 11, 2018 London Chapter - Canadians and the Founding of the Society for American Archaeology, 1934-1942
October 09, 2018 Grand River Chapter - Title TBA - Greg Braun
October 09, 2018 Windsor Chapter - Corduroy Road in Kitchener
September 25, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - Using Changes in Costumes to Understand Changes in Culture
September 20, 2018 Ottawa Chapter - The Archaeology of Gambling: Identifying Social Networks through a Shared Fluency in Games
September 19, 2018 Toronto Chapter - Beardmore: The Viking hoax that Scandalized the Royal Ontario Museum
September 19, 2018 Huronia Chapter - No September Meeting
September 13, 2018 London Chapter - Excavations and Analyses of the 19th Century Dutch Middenbeemster Cemetery
September 11, 2018 Grand River Chapter - Title TBA - Paul Racher
August 15, 2018 Huronia Chapter - Conservation of Stone Memorials in Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
July 15, 2018 London Chapter - London Chapter Picnic at Longwoods
July 11, 2018 Huronia Chapter - William Armson Research
June 26, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - Sean Berger
June 06, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Midland
June 06, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Midland
June 05, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Cookstown
June 04, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Collingwood
June 04, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Collingwood
May 31, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Orillia
May 31, 2018 Simcoe County AMP Open House - Orillia
May 22, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - Dena Doroszenko
May 17, 2018 Hamilton Chapter - Demographic Disasters and Their Consequences: Revisiting Shell-Tempering Pottery at Neutral Iroquoian Sites
May 16, 2018 Toronto Chapter - Canadians and the Early Years of the SAA
April 24, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - NO MEETING
April 18, 2018 Toronto Chapter - The French Mission of Kenté: Examining its Place 350 Years Later
April 12, 2018 London Chapter - Untapping the Potential of 3D Archaeological Modeling
April 11, 2018 Windsor Chapter - "From Rocks to Reconciliation: Stage 5, Are We There Yet?"
April 11, 2018 Huronia Chapter - Willow Depot Project
April 10, 2018 Grand River Chapter - The Ball Site Fauna and Faunal Artifacts
March 27, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - The Richardson Site Project
March 21, 2018 Toronto Chapter - Water Level Management on the Rainy River and Indirect Impacts to Archaeological Sites
March 16, 2018 Thunder Bay Chapter - 2018 Lake Superior Basin Workshop
March 15, 2018 Ottawa Chapter - The Lansdowne Ironworks – A Community Archaeological Project
March 14, 2018 Huronia Chapter - Sacred Landscapes and the Ancient Town of Nebo
March 13, 2018 Grand River Chapter - Ritual, Social Organization, and Monumental Architecture: A Case Study of Monumental Tombs in the Göksu Valley, Turkey
March 09, 2018 Thunder Bay Chapter - "Archaeologists Never find the Good Stuff"
March 08, 2018 London Chapter - Ongoing Remote Sensing Work at the Gallinazo Group Site in the Virú Valley, Peru
March 06, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - Archaeology of the Franklin Expedition: The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
February 27, 2018 Peterborough Chapter - “What was on the menu in the Peterborough area thirteen hundred years ago?”
February 21, 2018 Toronto Chapter - Curating Vikings: The Exhibition
February 15, 2018 Hamilton Chapter - The Third Voice: Examining The Archaeology of the Underground Railroad in Southern Ontario
February 14, 2018 Huronia Chapter - Archaeology of the Oro African Church
February 14, 2018 Windsor Chapter - Preliminary GPR and Magnetometer Results from the WEDigHistory Geophysics Survey
November 17, 2017 2017 Annual OAS Symposium
November 04, 2016 2016 OAS Symposium
April 21, 2016 Ottawa Chapter Meeting
April 20, 2016 Toronto Chapter Meeting
April 14, 2016 London Chapter Meeting
April 13, 2016 Windsor Chapter Talk
October 16, 2015 OAS 2015 Symposium – Circles of Interaction: The Wendat and their Neighbours in the Time of Champlain
September 05, 2015 Peterborough Chapter Book Launch
October 23, 2014 The Land Between OAS Annual Conference - Peterborough 2014
September 17, 2014 Toronto Chapter September 2014 Meeting
September 11, 2014 London Chapter September 2014 Meeting
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