"Seneca burial site purchased"

TORONTO (CP) - A native burial ground is suburban Scarborough is being purchased for $2.6 million by the provincial and federal governments.

The Bead Hill National Historic Site, adjacent to Rouge Valley parklands, is considered the only intact 17th-century village and burial ground of the Seneca Indians, whose villages once dotted the north shore of Lake Ontario.

Their descendants are part of the Six Nations community.

Reports of the native site were made as early as the 1840s, but the exact location of the village and burial ground wasn't known until 1985. The property had originally been zoned for hotel development.