Abstract

The Chimney Coulee Site (DjOe-6) in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan contains components representing virtually every historical theme in Western Canadian 19th-C history. These include at least two precontact occupations, a large hivermant Métis village probably occupied in the 1860s and 1870s, a Hudson's Bay Company post (1871-72) and the North-West Mounted Police Eastend post (1877-1180). Public archaeology programs were run in the Coulee in the summers of 1994 and 1995. Quite by chance, theses occurred simultaneous with the Eastend Tyrannosaurus rex palaeontological excavations and tourism boom. Both grant-based and 'user-pay' methods of funding the project were utilized and the efficacy of both are discussed. Of the several occupations represented, the HBC post built in a Métis longhouse style was the main focus of investigation. The archaeological findings are presented.