Taber Hill
In Taber Hill Park on the east side of Bellamy Road is a large hill. It's actually an ancient Indian ossuary. There are two plaques attached to a rock at the top of the hill. The 1961 plaque in the photo by the Township of Scarborough says:
Site of an ancient Indian ossuary of the Iroquois Nation. Burials were made about 1250 A.D. This ossuary was uncovered when farm lands were developed into residential properties in 1956. This common grave contains the remains of approximately 472 persons.
Location Co-ordinates: 43.759797 -79.234471
Photo by Alan L Brown - July 2007
The plaque on the other side of the rock is an Iroquois Prayer by White Cloud approved by the Iroquois Council February 2, 1960. Here's what it says:
O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me. I am a man before you, one of your many children. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunsets. Make my hands respect the things you have made, my ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so I may know the things you have taught my people, the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength, O Creator, not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me ever ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eye, so that when life fades as the setting sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.
Photo by Alan L Brown - July 2007
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