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flE INDIANS. At the time that the first settlers arrived from Europe,they found this cistrict of Bruce County inhabi tâ€" ed by the Tobaco Tribe or Vyandotte Indians. The Iroquois to the South waged continuous raids until they had defeated and scattered the local tribes. However the Iroquois were farmers and worked the land. This was the reason they could live in large communities and long-houses. They shared the work. The men could hunt longer in the Fall for their supply of food was at hand when the harvest was gathered. So the first settlers learned farming from the Iroquois, obtained corn and carried on a friendly relationship. Nevertheless, some venturesome warlike Iroquois had waylaid several parties of Ojibway Indians on the Ottaâ€" wa River as they journeyed to sell their furs to the French furtraders in Montreal. The Ojibway Tribe lived throughout the head of Lakes Country. When the Iroquois heeded no warning the Ojibway Council planned a major attack durinf the winter and in May descended into Iroquois country in three spearheads. One followed the Ottaâ€" wa River, another aoross Lake Huron and into Georgian Bay and the third planned an attack from Lake St.Clnir up the shores of Lake Huron to the Ssugeen River. A fierce battle took place there with the Iroquois badly defeated and completely routed. At the time of first land sales in 181.9,this district was only sparsely settled by Indians of the Ojibway or or Chippewa Tribe who had stayed after the victory over the Iroquois. In the treaties which followed they gathâ€" ered at Chippewa Hill Reserve near Southampton on the bank of the Saugeen Hiver;thus giving the white settlers peaneeble possession of this part of Ontario. The first white man in Huron Township was Louis Bellemere. He settled on Lot 19 of the Lake Range. He had been an employee of the Hudson Bay Company. His wife was the daughter of the Indian Chief. Their home became a tavern [or landâ€"seekers. Mrs. Bellemere was a fine woman and genre help in time of sickness to all her neigh- bours. The following year this French Canadian sold his squatter-'5 rights to Mr. David Walden and moved to Lot 36,which was farther north but carried on his tavern business in this new location. Many of the pioneers of this district made this tavern their halfway house while negotiating for the property of their choice. Many stories are told of the demands of hungry Indians, off the trapping line, on the scanty supplies in the pioneer pantry but the white man gladly shared his [are to maintain their friendship. By this time the furs were scarce and these Indians strayed from the reserve throughout the Bren in search of pelts. An Indian oelnctry is located on the North bank of the Pine River near its mouth but has long been abandoned. Stone arrowheads are picked up from time to time in the neighbouring f‘ields,which proves to us that the red man trod this way in all his glory long before the white man came. Mrs. Donald Blue. August 1963. , y , slmcoe. dwelt the Humm. a tribe whose memory 15 manned by the i like which bears their name. In the year 1539 were were unity-two nj ' ‘ Huron vlllnges with a pupuunun or uglaucltmarty thcmd. \1 G a ‘ "r r r‘ whim- ; ; ‘Thc name a: Gmmnlnln 15 men y (x: upon ‘9 am all », -' l D or “GEN” AN” Hindu“ -‘ | , dim history. He (Llâ€"“creed truekless foresta, asc'ended the mug umber-our . memf‘km 1 “ml 11°“le in Bruce. my “five roams " rivers. disoovared the Ottawa, Lake Mpmslng, morgluu pr, Bcvcnl - was formerly the hunting and fishing ground or the who Rlvar‘, Lake 51mm. the Trent Rlver. and Lake onlana. He Iormcd- an Fifi nature, and here one Is constantly remlnded of “the hemury sumpeuymfi thelsAlgozqfi and “Elwin: 53:13:: fihslzgl‘zgrflm lnn'n,hwcan1b'ass l-u enemy «2' W110 no we y amlna w _ lazbum. uh stream 13ml: l" m “m M “"5” mm“ a‘Britlsh colony The mum waged perpetual warfare. mulan ‘ a‘pmurmus,mm a; Mum“ on can,” my ,3 me sum“ terrible cruemea on thelr' mum The un’ulc Mission Larccd‘Jn {15:4 rm filailirmce‘renlnsull“ The vlslmr arriving mm um south 1: charmed ‘ I ' w; giggle figumvk l1mm thedhl‘gh fin. Below la the town nndhhnrbor. seek" r e y cw ox en a or as dawn the hay. wuh Whl 01mm -* ‘ -w~~ '16: I d d, .h ‘ ‘ea ranchgmluta on, ml; 1 as»! ; y. Emaitghhggxgfinalgimlnsfixfilguflrfxpmed his thflfiifi , ctlon. in abode o! n. mLIsionsry, (bout {our hundxadvnéd'h) Qua.- u 2 17u]y,1650.snd were glvéu lands an the Isle oz Orleans. ( tom mom Hues mlles wide. on the west his or , .J’“ "‘9 3"“ °’_ I . . r , ., Ewell!!! overhang tth water. and cle‘urlyuenneu ffigqfu‘feggffiufirfligflfixfigflgi0‘ Wm“. “1" "mf‘j‘fi. g 6." There are three Indian Eesorvea' 1h Bruce Countyâ€"one neigrSouth- : tlmppn. at the muurh of the Suugeeu: one at. omen; Point ’nn Lake J H’urbn,‘ and Cape (maker on Georgian Bay. The treaty by which the dim title was surrendered to the land in the County 0! Bruce was included by Slr I‘rancla'Bond Head u: Max-naming on Aug 9.1335, s the consideration being "$1.250 per annum u long as grass,er ‘ [S Hill." ‘ - What changes have come over the scene since charm-ling make ‘ ‘ ah occasional ‘wlgwum or o‘nmpnm might be seen ascendlnanlhlus manure and than among the mus. Today the forum have-mean . «I ad, villages and towns have sprung up. trains and motor,th so ‘tllshlnz‘.by,'but the same genial sun‘llghts the ahmc mm, m lam! blue ‘ t'era an the same shares, and at ulgh: the same sun linksto'nst In I-‘luron and leaves a flaming afterglow. us the span mu. There h an mun legduuj r n, _ldtu(hter‘«pl a only '5‘: mam; mbe, l ‘d smuggled ‘ ggigdgery. one “at; l by} vs 59 . V a was mm , 1 an: éfiwmusammsa 4 W‘lfifip lingera‘htlcha'mnlnnl “ ‘ 7 yes.“ ad? yapde ,Jzauk wher'umer , unifodtsoreupnl , ‘ bc‘rcfused ndmltmncch n she had hczduhouor In hem]: and to her lathen's crlbe'. yHeartrbl-okenl on:' Value Jumde w 5mm Rock mmma lurk waters 0! Colpoy'l Bay. '. l y n; Algonquin trlbe’inhahltédmifltmnln Island andla Vast Lem: r ory. scattered bands or Oilhwnys\a.nd ottawb oécupled the penlmull ‘hetweén Georgian hug andinke Huron. an x theLeast mam.) ‘ From The Globe and Mailâ€" donated by Mrs. Richard Dawson 22 A Austin Terrace Toronto.