Princess Point
The current parking area was created in the 1950s by the RBG through substantial infilling of the marshland due to site popularity as well as pending construction of adjacent Hwy 403, and for several decades the area was manicured parkland. The site provides both canoe access to Cootes Paradise and starting point for the waterfront and natural trails of the area. The point has since become a grasslands/Oak Savanah restoration project site of RBG initiated in 2007. The site has never been farmed, and was specifically capped by the RBG for protection from use in the 1960s. Unusual species of oak trees and savannah plants remain, complimented by the plant diversity of the sites restoration. To manage the plant community ongoing regular controlled burns occur. The site's archeological investigations were initiated by McMaster University in the 1960s and continued by University of Toronto in the late 1990s to 2011.
References
- ^ Warrick, Gary (2000). "The Precontact Iroquoian Occupation of Southern Ontario". Journal of World Prehistory. 14 (4): 415–466. doi:10.1023/A:1011137725917. S2CID 163183815.
Further reading
- Laking, Leslie. Love, Sweat and Soil: A History of Royal Botanical Gardens from 1930 to 1981. Royal Botanical Gardens Auxiliary, 2006. ISBN 0969175949.
- Stothers, David Marvyn. The Princess Point Complex. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1977. (Ph.D. Thesis)