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The Iroquois settlement into Ontario was part of a broader expansion of Iroquois groups in the mid 17th century. During this time the Iroquois also moved into what is today Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Quebec. Often these settlements were significantly closer to European settlements and have been characterized as Iroquois Colonies. [5]
Ganneious, also spelled Ganneous, is a former village, first settled by the Oneida, located on the North Shore of Lake Ontario near the present site of Napanee, Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] Starting in 1696, it was occupied by the Mississauga. [3]:10 The name is most likely a likely misprint for the French "Gannejout(s)", meaning Oneida. [4]
Following the move of the Catholic Iroquois to the St. Lawrence valley, historians commonly describe the Iroquois living outside of Montreal as the Canadian Iroquois, while those remaining in their historical heartland in modern upstate New York are described as the League Iroquois. [91] Map showing dates Iroquois claims relinquished, 1701–1796.
This region may have had the largest Neutral Confederacy settlement in Ontario, at one time. [19] Onondaga chert was plentiful in Neutral lands due to the presence of the Onondaga Limestone formation. This tool stone was also available to the Five Nations Iroquois in their own lands, but not to other neighbouring peoples. The Neutral territory ...
A map depicting the Iroquois settlement of the north shore of Lake Ontario during the late-17th century. It is believed the first European to reach the lake was Étienne Brûlé in 1615. As was their practice, the French explorers introduced other names for the lake.
Iroquois settlement of the north shore of Lake Ontario 1665–1701. Tinawatawa, also called Quinaouatoua, was an Iroquois village of the Seneca people on the western end of the Niagara corridor, described as "a fertile flat belt of land stretching from western New York to the head waters of the Thames River". [1]
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
Iroquois Settlement at Fort Frontenac in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries Archived September 13, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Ontario Archaeology, No. 46: 4–20. 1986. Retrieved 2013-02-19; Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War – the Seven Years'War and the Fate of the Empire in British North America, 1754–1766. New York: Alfred A ...