The Churchill peninsula holds the stories of lives lived.

The shoreline of the Churchill peninsula was very different 3000 years ago. In fact, only a small spot of land was not covered with water and the shoreline of  Hudson Bay was 100km inland from that of the present day. 

A seal bone at the Weasel Site (IeKn-27) dates to 3590 years before present (C14 dating). This site is older than the Seahorse Gully Site (IeKn-09) which was occupied as early as 2900 years before present. When occupied, the small island was likely treeless and  it was possibly used a camping spot from which ringed seals were hunted in the late winter early spring. 

These sites, and others on the Churchill peninsula, demonstrate the continuity of Indigenous use of the Land. The people used the Land during a range of seasons over thousands of years to harvest resources and live their lives. The Land holds the stories of these lives. 

In 1994 Virginia Petch recorded the location of the Weasel Site as a result of her work for Manitoba Hydro. The site was partially excavated by Lisa Hodgetts in 2005 and the information and the maps below were published in the Journal of Field Archaeology Vol 3, 2007.

Evidence of other Pre-Dorset sites are also found at Burton Rock and on the north rim of the Seahorse Gully.