{"product_id":"the-ward-uncovered-9781552453698","title":"The Ward Uncovered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto’s long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered was the rich buried history of an enclave that was part of The Ward -- that dense, poor, but vibrant 'arrival city' that took shape between the 1840s and the 1950s. Home to waves of immigrants and refugees -- Irish, African-Americans, Italians, eastern European Jews, and Chinese -- The Ward was stigmatized for decades by Toronto's politicians and residents, and eventually razed to make way for New City Hall. The archaeologists who excavated the lot, led by co-editor Holly Martelle, discovered almost half a million artifacts -- a spectacular collection of household items, tools, toys, shoes, musical instruments, bottles, industrial objects, food scraps, luxury items, and even a pre-contact Indigenous projectile point. Martelle's team also unearthed the foundations of a nineteenth-century Black church, a Russian synagogue, early-twentieth-century factories, cisterns, privies, wooden drains, and even row houses built by formerly enslaved African Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing on the heels of the immensely popular \u003ci\u003eThe Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood\u003c\/i\u003e, which told the stories of some of the people who lived there, The Ward Uncovered digs up the tales of things, using these well-preserved artifacts to tell a different set of stories about life in this long-forgotten and much-maligned neighbourhood. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Lorinc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308073005307,"sku":"9781552453698","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6d2fd42f-f510-433e-a59b-b50fbf80191a.jpg?v=1778103739","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-ward-uncovered-9781552453698","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}