Draper Site

The Draper Site is a precontact period (late fifteenth-century) Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on a tributary of West Duffins Creek in present-day Pickering, Ontario, approximately 35 kilometres northeast of Toronto.

[1] The site is found in a wooded area on existing farmland and may be reached by walking from the end of North Road.

The Huron community on the Draper Site expanded at least five times over some thirty years beginning around 1525.

They were located on four hectares of land, and the settlement was fortified with multiple rows of wooden palisades.

This archeological work was to explore and salvage artifacts and evidence in preparation for the destruction of the site during the construction of the Pickering Airport.