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economist suntribune the environment thursday may 16 2002 cemetery could damage rouge river environmentalists charge bymikeadler staff writer conservationists are prepar ing for what could be a final stand this month against a new cemetery near the rouge river in markham in a deal that frees land else where in the town for commercial development provincial land north and east of reesor road and steeles avenue was handed in late march to torontos catholic cemetery board in 1996 the province prom ised the tenants who live on or farm the 160 acres a chance to buy the land it broke its promise three years later when the board agreed to exchange property in box grove for the steeles parcels the new cemetery may bring economic benefits for some but it will do grossly significant eco logical damage to a vital area of rouge park north warned murray johnston president of the rouge valley foundation in a letter to the partnership which manages the park the rouge alliance mr johnston argued the cemetery will cause severe damage t6 the environ mental integrity of the water shed to which we are all commit ted to preserve the scarborough man and other environmentalists say they fear a cemetery will ruin the parks main wildlife corridor from lake ontario to the oak ridges moraine by making it too narrow and that formaldehyde or other impurities will leach into the river there is also concern the cemetery will disturb an aborig inal village and possibly aborig inal dead who may be buried nearby we should not be digging up their ancestors to bury our ancestors we should not be digging up their ancestors to bury our ancestors said glenn de baeremaeker president of save the rouge valley system at a meeting in markham mr de baeremaeker who is an alliance member advanced res olutions to change the bodys stance that it does not object to the cemetery location alliance chairperson ron christie ruled the resolutions werent in order and deferred them to a may 3 1 meeting so the alliance can research the issues nobody wants to rock the boat mr de baeremaeker later charged but mr christie said he expects a full discussion at this months meeting small areas of the site were excavated during the 1950s and 1970s said martin cooper an archeologist at archeological services inc who assessed the property recently for the ontario realty corporation its former provincial landowner in an interview mr cooper said no excavation was done for the assessment but judging from artifacts found on the sur face the firm told orc a sub stantial village site from 1300- 1350 ad exists on eight acres within the site and extends further into private lands to the north if we excavated the site we certainly would come up with longhouses said mr cooper adding that no other sites signif icant enough to require protec tion or evidence of burials were found not all the villages we excavate have burials but some do so there could be burials the orc has been accused by save the rouge and another group 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