Throughout this time, the people of the area travelled to the site to quarry from its quartzite outcroppings for use in toolmaking.

[1] It was originally discovered in 1951 by Thomas E. Lee, who found artifacts in surface collections indicating the site was ancient.

Public interest in the finds contributed to passage of legislation in 1953 to protect archeological sites in Ontario.

[1] The ancestors of Native American populations from the tip of Chile in the south to Canada in the north, migrated from Asia in at least three waves.

Drawing on new material from botany and related disciplines, they concluded that a more conservative estimate of age was justified, and estimated the site was almost certainly occupied 9,500 years BP by Paleo-Indians, making it still highly significant in North American archaeology and the archaeology of Ontario.