Credit Indian Village 1826

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted April, 2004

Plaque Location

The Region of Peel
The City of Mississauga
On the east side of Mississauga Road
just north of the Queen Elizabeth Way
beside the entrance to the Mississauga Golf and Country Club

Coordinates: N 43 32.989 W 79 37.214

Plaque Text

In 1826 the government assisted a band of Mississauga, who had recently been converted to Christianity, to settle in this vicinity, and within five years laid out a village plot and constructed log cottages and a sawmill. Methodist missionaries, notably Peter Jones and Egerton Ryerson, ministered to the converts who in 1829 built a combined schoolhouse and chapel. By 1837 about 50 houses had been erected for the Indians. Three years later they had approximately 200 ha under cultivation. Pressure from local white settlement and a decline in the Indian population led to the closing of the mission and the return of the major portion of the Mississauga to the Grand River Reserve in 1847.

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Reverend Peter Jones 1802-1856
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Posted December 12, 2009
This one has gone missing before, was replaced, now it's gone again. Being next to a busy road, it may have been hit by a plow/car/truck. It could also be the victim of vandalism. I wonder if the Trust is rethinking its location. -Wayne

Posted November 7, 2008
This plaque is no longer on the site, any ideas as to what happened to it?

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