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Guests are welcome to join APA Ontario members on June 27th at Noon Eastern time for the professional development session on MACMINDS: McMaster University's high-tech Archaeological Centre for Minimally Invasive / Non-Destructive Science

with Dr. Tracy Prowse and Dr. Andy Roddick of McMaster Anthrpology

~ for more info, see the Events page ~

Have a happy National Indigenous Peoples Day and upcoming Summer Solstice!

Members: check your email inbox for the latest APA Newsletter (2026:1 New Series).

If you don't see this email, please send a note to members@apaontario.ca

The newsletter has also been posted (along with other great content!) to our Member Resources page.

We hope that all members have a few minutes to relax over the holidays and to kick back with APA's latest Newsletter for Fall 2025.

Members: check your email inbox for the latest APA Newsletter (2025:2 New Series).

If you don't see this email, please send a note to members@apaontario.ca

Summer Solstice is just about here, have a happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!

Members: check your email inbox for the latest APA Newsletter (2025:1 New Series).

If you don't see this email, please send a note to members@apaontario.ca

The newsletter has also been posted to our Member Resources page.

Members may access the slide deck and handouts provided by Ian Hember by logging in to the Members' Only part of the website here: Member Resources (home).

Ian's 'Ask An Expert' session was full with presentation material and questions/discussion!  A recap is being included in the upcoming Newsletter (2025.1)

Members -- join us online on Saturday June 14th at 10am for our Association's Annual General Meeting :)  The draft minutes from the 2024 AGM will be circulated in advance.

Register here: APA's 2025 AGM: Saturday June 14th at 10amEastern via Zoom (registration is free)

Following the AGM, Ian Hember will provide our next Ask An Expert session! Read more about it (and register) here: APA's Ask An Expert ~ with Ian Hember ~ Registrar - Ontario Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act (FBCSA) (registration is free for members, $10 for guests)

Happy and safe holidays to everyone!

Members: check your email inbox for the latest APA Newsletter (2024:2 New Series), and an invitation/link to a short survey on your experiences with the Archaeology Review process.

If you don't see this email, please send a note to members@apaontario.ca

Circulated to members via email on May 30, 2024. Also available in the Members' Only section of the website here.

APA Members receive the latest version of our newsletter directly to their email inboxes.  

Newsletter issue 2023:1 Spring has been emailed to members, and is also available here.

Featured in this issue:

• The Importance of Language Dialects - a correction/explanation relating to Newsletter 2022:2; and an insightful contribution by Julie Kapyrka, sharing the teachings of Anne Taylor (Curve Lake First Nation), on the use of respectful suffixes to one's name when that person is no longer living in this physical realm
  

• The Algonquin and Huron Alliance: Using Oral Tradition, History and Archaeology to Understand True Relationships in 17th Century New France, by Lawrence Jackson

• Congratulations to the winner of the random Radiocarbon Date Lottery and to the winners of the Book Draw!

• Spring Awards for Members