Glass syringe

This artifact is a glass syringe with its plunger. They were recovered from the block on the northeast corner of Simcoe Street and Adelaide Street West, in Toronto. The excavation was conducted in 2007 by Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI). It documented the changing landscape on Adelaide Street from a semi rural, upper middle class range of single-family homes to an urban, working class enclave of boarding houses and commercial businesses by the early twentieth century. Almost 70,000 artifacts have been recovered from the excavations, among over 360 artifacts related to medicine.