The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life Garden The inspiration for the design

The inspiration for the design of the Maya Blue cover comes from a 1697 edition of Johann Arndt's Paradiesgärtlein (Garden of Paradise)

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she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world

to the Highland heroics of Alexander Fraser

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The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life Garden The inspiration for the designIn 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