Post-conference Excursion

Royal Ontario Museum, Iroquoian village reconstruction and tree, lighthouse with sailboat on water in background, aerial view of a pier
Pictured left to right: Downtown Toronto including the Royal Ontario Museum (by Pascal Huot), Iroquoian longhouse reconstruction at Crawford Lake Conservation Area (by Gilberto Mesquita), Port Dover lighthouse at Lake Erie (by Gilberto Mesquita), Aerial view of Burlington Pier (by Harold Stiver). All images via Adobe Stock.

Tentative Schedule

The tentative schedule for the post-conference excursion on August 16 and 17, 2024 is as follows:

Friday, August 16:

  • departure from Toronto at 7 a.m.
  • Royal Ontario Museum Natural History department-led tour of their fish specimen storage
  • ecologist- and archaeologist-led tour of the reconstructed Iroquoian village and the meromictic lake at Crawford Lake Conservation Area (which is on the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve), including a picnic lunch
  • possibly visit to the beach and swimming in Lake Ontario at Burlington
  • buffet dinner at the Holiday Inn hotel in Burlington
  • socializing in the hotel bar (cash bar)

Saturday, August 17:

  • buffet breakfast at the hotel
  • Indigenous ecologist- and archaeologist-led tour of the lower reaches of the Grand River
  • traditional fish-and-chips lunch in Port Dover, featuring Lake Erie walleye or yellow perch
  • to be confirmed: visit to the Normandale fish hatchery, which raises Atlantic salmon for the reintroduction programme in Lake Ontario (where there was a huge landlocked population that became extirpated in 1898)
  • possibly visiting the beach and swimming in Lake Erie at Turkey Point
  • return Toronto early evening