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NAPIER WIND PROJECT Errata Sheet ERRATA It is of note that since the Project commenced the Study Area has been revised. The Feeder Line was originally proposed along Kerwood Road with the connection point at the Corner of Munn St. & Kerwood Rd. The Feeder Line has since been removed from the Project (the Project will connect directly into the Grid at the switching station). The Study Area specified in the Natural Heritage Assessment Report/EIS and the Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Reports has not been updated as these reports were completed under the original study area scenario. Heritage Assessment Report Napier Wind Project FIT F-002194- WIN-130-601 Parts of Lots 8 and 10, Concession 4 SER Geographic Township of Adelaide Township of Adelaide Metcalfe Middlesex County, Ontario Prepared for wpd Canada Corporation 2233 Argentia Road, Suite 102 Mississauga, ON L5N 2X7 Tel: (905) 813-8400 Fax: (905) 813-7487 & The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport By Archaeological Research Associates Ltd. 154 Otonabee Drive Kitchener, ON N2C 1L7 Tel: (519) 804-2291 Fax: (519) 954-4797 Heritage Assessment by P.J. Racher, M.A., CAHP Project #HR-019-2011 13/04/2012 Original Report Heritage Assessment Report, Napier Wind Project, Township of Adelaide Metcalfe i _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS III PERSONNEL III 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 PROJECT CONTEXT 4 3.0 METHODOLOGY 4 3.1 Key Concepts 4 3.2 Approach 6 4.0 NATURAL CONTEXT 9 5.0 HISTORICAL CONTEXT 11 5.1 European Contact 11 5.2 British Colonialism 15 5.3 Middlesex County 18 5.4 Township of Adelaide 22 5.5 Lots 8 and 10, Concession 4 SER 27 6.0 HERITAGE ASSESSMENT 32 6.1 Identification of Protected Properties 32 6.2 Inventory of Potential BH Resources 36 6.3 Evaluation of Potential BH Resources 38 6.4 Inventory of Potential CHLs 44 6.5 Evaluation of Potential CHLs 44 7.0 EVALUATION OF IMPACTS 47 7.1 Impact Evaluation of the Protected Property 48 7.2 Impact Evaluation of Identified BH Resources 49 7.3 Impact Evaluation of Identified CHL 52 8.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 54 9.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES 56 LIST OF IMAGES Image 1: Aerial Photograph of the Village of Kerwood (1957) 26 Image 2: Historical Photographs of the Original Woods’ General Store from 1938 (left) and the Rebuilding of the Store in 1949 (right) 34 Image 3: View of the Woods’ General Store, Kerwood, Southwest Elevation 34 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ April 2012 Archaeological Research Associates Ltd. Project #HR-019-2012 Heritage Assessment Report, Napier Wind Project, Township of Adelaide Metcalfe ii _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LIST OF MAPS Map 1: General View of the Project Location in the Province of Ontario 2 Map 2: General View of the Project Location, Participating Properties and Abutting Properties in the Township of Adelaide Metcalfe 3 Map 3: Detail from S. de Champlain’s Carte de la Nouvelle France (1632) 12 Map 4: Detail from H. Popple’s A Map of the British Empire in America (1733) 13 Map 5: Detail from D. and G. Robert de Vaugondy’s Nouvelle France ou le Canada (1755) 13 Map 6: Detail from R. Sayer and J. Bennett’s General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America (1776) 15 Map 7: Detail from D.W. Smyth’s A Map of the Province of Upper Canada (1800) 17 Map 8: Detail from J. Purdy’s A Map of Cabotia (1814) 17 Map 9: Detail from J. Arrowsmith’s Upper Canada (1837) 20 Map 10: Detail from J. Bouchette’s Map of the Provinces of Canada (1846) 20 Map 11: Detail from G.W. Colton’s Canada West (1856) 21 Map 12: Map of Middlesex County from W.J. Gage and Co.’s County Atlas (1886) 22 Map 13: Map of the Township of Adelaide from H.R. Page & Co.’s Illustrated Historical Atlas of Middlesex County, Ontario (1878) 23 Map 14: Plan of the Village of Strathroy from G.R. and G.M. Tremaines’ Map of Middlesex County, Canada West (1862) 25 Map 15: Detail of the Township of Adelaide from H.R. Page & Co.’s Illustrated Historical Atlas of Middlesex County, Ontario (1878), Showing the Project Location and Participating Properties 28 Map 16: Location of the Woods’ General Store in the Community of Kerwood 35 Map 17: Locations of Potential Heritage Resources in the Study Area 37 Map 18: Locations of Identified Heritage Resources in the Study Area 41 Map 19: Location of the Potential CHL in the Vicinity of the Study Area 45 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Summary of Amiens, Crathie, Mullifarry and Napperton from 1905–1914 27 Table 2: Land Transaction Summary for the West Half of Lot 8, Concession 4 SER 29 Table 3: Land Transaction Summary for the West Half of Lot 10, Concession 4 SER 31 Table 4: Identifying Protected Properties within the Study Area 32 Table 5: Potential Heritage Resource Inventory and CHVI Evaluation Results 39 Table 6: Summary of the Heritage Attributes of the Identified Heritage Resources 42 Table 7: Evaluation of Kerwood as a CHL 46 Table 8: Summary of Heritage Attributes of the Identified CHL 47 Table 9: Impact Evaluation of the Protected Property 48 Table 10: Minimum Distances between Proposed Project Infrastructure and Identified Heritage Resources 49 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ April 2012 Archaeological Research Associates Ltd. Project #HR-019-2012 Heritage Assessment Report, Napier Wind Project, Township of Adelaide Metcalfe iii _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table 11: Impact Evaluation of the Identified Heritage Resources 51 Table 12: Impact Evaluation of the Identified CHL 53 LIST OF APPENDICES Appendix A: Project Layout for the Napier Wind Project (February 7, 2012) 61 Appendix B: Potential BH Resource Inventory and CHVI Evaluation Results 62 GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS ARA – Archaeological Research Associates Ltd. BH – Built Heritage CHL – Cultural Heritage Landscape CHVI – Cultural Heritage Value or Interest FIT – Feed-in Tariff MTCS – Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport O. Reg. – Ontario Regulation REA – Renewable Energy Approval ROW – Right-of-Way SER – South of Egremont Road PERSONNEL Project Director: P.J. Racher, M.A., CAHP Project Manager: C.E. Gohm, B.A. Assistant Project Manager: P. Hoskins, M.A. Heritage Assessment: P.J. Racher Photography: L. Akida, H. Brown, S. Bolstridge, A. Wong Background Research: C.J. Gohm, M.A., A. Wong Graphics: K. Brightwell, P.G. (GIS) Report Preparation: C.J. Gohm _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ April 2012 Archaeological Research Associates Ltd. Project #HR-019-2012 Heritage Assessment Report, Napier Wind Project, Township of Adelaide Metcalfe 1 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.0 INTRODUCTION Under a contract awarded by wpd Canada Corporation in October 2011, ARA conducted a heritage assessment of lands with the potential to be impacted by the proposed Napier Wind Project in the Township of Adelaide Metcalfe, Middlesex County, Ontario. The proponent has secured a 5.4 MW contract to sell power to the Ontario Power Authority under the FIT program (F-002194-WIN-130-601), and is preparing their REA application in accordance with the requirements set out in O. Reg. 359/09 made under Part V.0.1 of the Environmental Protection Act. This report documents the background research, on-site inspection, potential resource identification and evaluations involved in the heritage assessment of the proposed project location and its immediate surroundings, and presents conclusions and recommendations concerning potential impacts. The study was conducted in order to fulfill the requirements of a cultural heritage assessment report, as discussed in Section 20 (Consideration of Archaeological and Heritage Resources) and Section 23 (Heritage Assessment) of O. Reg. 359/09. The study area for this heritage assessment consists of the proposed project location, the participating properties, and all abutting/adjacent properties (see Map 1–Map 2). The proposed project location comprises two wind turbines and associated project infrastructure in the vicinity of Kerwood (see Section 2.0). This infrastructure falls primarily on two participating properties of privately-owned agricultural lands located northeast of the Kerwood Road/Napperton Drive intersection and northeast of the Napperton Drive/Brown Road intersection. In legal terms, these properties are located on parts of Lots 8 and 10, Concession 4 SER in the Geographic Township of Adelaide. Additional project electrical lines are planned within a 7.74 ha corridor extending along the ROWs of Brown Road, Napperton Drive and Kerwood Road. This corridor falls within three historic road allowances laid out between Lots 7–10, Concessions 4–5 SER and Lots 6–7, Concessions 5–6 SER in the Geographic Township of Adelaide. This assessment was conducted for the purpose of identifying heritage resources within the study area that may be subject to project impacts. The approach consisted of the following: • Background research concerning the project context, natural context, and historical context of the study area; • The identification of any Protected Properties within the limits of the study area; • The