Hanlan’s Point Footprints

In 1908, workers installing a utility tunnel near Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island found up to 100 human footprints impressed in the clay lake bottom approximately 21 metres below the present surface of Lake Ontario. The foot impressions, some apparently wearing moccasins, would have been made by the early Indigenous inhabitants of what is now known as Toronto, dating to between 11,300 and 9,000 years ago.