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Item consists of a study. The purpose of the Master Planning Study was the preparation and approval of a Master Plan for the development, operation and management of the Boyd Conservation Area, owned and leased by the MTRCA. The plan documents the scope and scale of site development, the locations for suitable site uses, and supporting facilities such as road access, parking, water supply and waste disposal. The site is characterized by ten designated environmentally significant areas; extensive flood plains, steep wooded valley slopes, 230 ha of natural forests; 51 ha of reforestation, 170 ha of agriculture, five buildings of historical interest, and a number of known archaeological sites.

Item consists of a report prepared by Conservation Branch of Department of Planning and Development, with assistance of Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, Toronto and Suburban Planning Board and the Office of the Engineer of North York Township. Comments on geology, physiograpy, and climate of the Don Watershed; also comments on flora and fauna, water, land use and land use capability, and recreation in the area. Includes considerable historical data relating to the Don Watershed: Indigenous History, fur-trading and town planning, 1760-1792, the first settlements, roads and travel, mills, transportation, villages, industry, the watershed since 1867, etc.; most of information gleaned from material housed at the Department of Public Archives and Records, and the Dominion Bureau of Archives, Ottawa. Report includes as appendices a small number of maps delineating land use and existing woodland and restoration land. Only 200 copies of report issued.

Item consists of a report that details findings and provides archaeological assessment of the Seed-Barker Site (AkGv-1), a late Iroquoian village located in the City of Vaughan on the east bank of the East Humber on property owned by the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (MTRCA); site is situated on a meander spur 4.5 km north of Woodbridge and 2.75 km southeast of Kleinburg. First excavated in 1895 under direction of R.B. Orr and Joseph Smelser; subsequent excavations include: A.J. Clark in 1925, Norman Emerson in 1951, Brian Snow in 1975-1977, and Robert Burgar in 1983-1989.

Item consists of a report executed in fulfilment of provincial licence 82-65; presents the location and cultural affinity of the McKenzie Site (a.k.a. Wood ridge), AkGv-2; reviews the history of the excavations between 1947 and 1977; discusses the 1982 excavations of the village and midden areas; descibes the extended work in the burial area to the northeast of the village; outlines the disposition of this year's fieldnotes, maps and cultural remains; and develops recommendations for that part of the site that remains. The McKenzie Site is a single component village, Southern Division, Huron-Petun Branch of the late Ontario Iroquoain Tradition dated ca. 1500-1520 A.D.

Item consists of a textual record that details the archaeological expedition to uncover the Keffer Site in Vaughan, Ontario, a village of the Hurons. Includes plans of the village and images of the artifacts uncovered.