Hello Vito:
 
Just a suggestion, but you might want to get in touch with the SOS people
in Ontario (Save our Ships).
 
On Sun, 26 Jun 1994, Vito Vaccarelli wrote:
 
> Well if you think Historical Archaeology is a relatively new discipline in
> the United States, you should take at look at Canada, or at least the
> province of Ontario. At the moment the only institutions doing any
> significant historical archaelogy in the province are government
> institutions such as Parks Canada and the Ontario Heritage Foundation (as
> well as a few CRM projects at the municipal level). Within the university
> structure there are NO institutions specializing  in Historical
> Archaeology, and those institutions and faculty  that do (and there are only a
>  few) dabble  in it, do so  out of marginal interest, or out of pity for those
> graduate students such as myself who have "historic tendencies".
> There are very few univeristies that offer courses in Historical
> Archaeology (both at the graduate and undergraduate level)), those that
> do, offer them on an irregular basis. Trent Univeristy and the Univeristy of
>  Toronto for the most part are the only two universities that have some kind
>  of program designed for historical archaeology interests.
>      With regards to  the status of Historical Archaeology I would say it is
> very low. Most practicing archaeologists in the the university sphere are
> prehistoric archaeologists, who consider historic sites to be little more
> than the "overburden" to  prehistoric sites. The antiquarian attitude of
> what is `older' and `exotic' is more important, in my opinion, seems to
>  prevail here.
>      Of course I can not speak for the rest of the country however the
> situation is somewhat better in British Columbia, and Alberta where for
> example  Simon Fraser University (BC), has had a program established for
> several years now. However, these programs are no comparison to what is being
> offered at schools such as William and Mary, U Mass. etc...
> Anyway I could go on,  but I like to limit my tirades to a few paragraphs -
> it keeps me sane.
>
> Vito Vaccarelli
> Trent University.
>