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Mantle Site

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The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region.Toronto Museum Project, Dunsmere Pipe . An exhaustive archaeological study of the Mantle Site is provided by Jennifer Birch, " Coalescent Communities in Iroquoian Ontario," unpublished PhD Thesis, McMaster University, Hamilton, 2010. The site's southeastern access point is at the intersection of Mantle Avenue and Byers Pond Way. Read more on Wikipedia

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