New Credit Indian Reserve and Mission
Text from the plaque
Faced with the pressure of white settlement, the Mississauga Indians began considering in 1840 the relocation of their Credit River Village near Toronto. In 1847 the Six Nations Council made them an unsolicited offer of land on its Grand River reserve. Native spokesmen for resettlement, including the Reverend Peter Jones, a Mississauga Chief, selected land in Tuscarora and later in Oneida township. Although several had located elsewhere, some 266 Mississauga settled on lots of the New Credit Reserve in 1847. Many of these belonged to the Methodist Church and in 1848 a mission was established here by the Reverend William Ryerson. With the mission's growth and the increase in cultivated acreage, New Credit became a prosperous farming community and in 1903 the Mississauga purchased the Reserve.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The County of Brant
Six Nations of the Grand River
In front of the New Credit Council House
at the end of Core Area Way
which runs north from Mississauga Road
just east of New Credit Road
N 42 59.991 W 80 05.672
Recorded June 2004. Check current access before visiting.
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