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The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life Garden to the Highland heroics ofIn 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