“…I made the church aware of the significance of the specific and comparative historical and scientific data that could be gleaned from archaeological investigation of the cemetery in terms of local history and culture, material culture studies, health and morbidity, and demography and population dynamics. I provided examples of similar investigations, in particular, the investigations at the 19th-century Methodist Prospect Hill Cemetery in Newmarket, Ontario (Pfeiffer, Dudar, and Austin 1989).…”