COUNCIL

Matthew Singer (President): is an Archaeologist for White Spruce Archaeology consultants in Manitoba. His most recent work involved a traditional land use study with Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve which was featured in the book “Community Success Stories” by Reid Dickie. The artifacts found from the project are becoming the basis of an online museum partly researched and created by the community. He has also worked with various First Nations and mining companies in Northern Ontario and overseas on a faunal cut mark analysis in the Middle East (with the University of Manitoba) and various CRM projects in South Africa.

Gary Wowchuk (Vice President):Is presently working with Western Heritage Services Manitoba conducting pre-harvest surveys for Louisiana Pacific. Some of his main interests are the pre-contact archaeology of the plains, parkland and boreal forest of western North America, Paleo-Indian colonization of the Lake Agassiz basin, Lithic sources and technology and the development of precontact ceramics in the parkland zone of the northern plains. He has worked on projects in west central Manitoba and Utah and has a keen interest in experimental archaeology and flint knapping. Gary has produced replicas for displays in the Duck Mountain Forest Interpretive Centre, the Manitoba Children’s Museum and The Healing Site Interpretive Display to name a few. He has also conducted flint knapping workshops and presentations on archaeology to thousands of school students, a number of museums, First Nations groups and events, numerous organizations including the 2004 CAA Conference and the 2005 Plains Conference. Gary feels very strongly about informing the public about our past and has initiated a number of public archaeology programs including excavation with the Swan Valley Archaeological Society and the Swan River Friendship Centre. He is a past president of the Swan Valley Historical Museum, Swan Valley Historical Society and Swan Valley Archaeological Society and is presently serving on the executive of the Parkland Archaeological Lab in Dauphin and Duck Mountain Forestry Interpretive Center.

Rachel ten Bruggencate (Secretary):is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba.  She has excavated at sites in the arctic, Boreal Forest, parkland and prairie.  Her doctoral research consists of developing and applying a geochemical technique for determining the source provenance of quartz artifacts from the Churchill River basin.

Tara Hnatiuk (Treasurer): is currently volunteering in the archaeological lab of the Museum of Manitoba where she is involved in the cataloging and identification of faunal material from the site FKMH-5. She was previously involved with the excavations at Monte Polizzo, Italy as the Faunal Analyst for the University of Stanford.