title: Old Bones and Serpent Stones: A Guide to Interpreted Fossil Localities in Canada and the United States- Western Sites
author: Theresa Skwara
description: Dr. T. Skwara, a native of Saskatchewan, holds the doctorate in vertebrate paleontology from the University of Toronto. She presently lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and teaches in the University of Regina and the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College.
zlib_text: # Hochelagan Burying-Ground
  
  #### discovered at
  
  ## Westmount
  
  ### On the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September 1898
  
  #### NOTES BY
  
  ### W.D. Lighthall, M.A., F.R.S.L.
  
  ###### Privately printed for the writer by  
  Alphonse Pelletier  
  Printer to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal
  
  #### 1898
  
  * * *
  
  ## A NEW HOCHELAGAN BURYING-GROUND
  
  #### BY W.D. LIGHTHALL
  
  The above title is provisional as respects the term "Hochelagan." All those
  who are interested in the Indians of old Hochelaga, or in the Mohawks with
  whom they seem to have had a close and not yet fully ascertained race
  relationship, will be pleased to learn of the discovery of a prehistoric
  burying-ground which is probably one of their race, the only one heretofore
  known having been on the borders of their town itself, about upper Metcalfe
  street, Montreal. The new one is on the upper level (not the top) of
  Westmount, which is the south-western prolongation of Mount Royal, and the
  four or five grave