INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Francis Bond Head, Saint Lawrence River, Lake Ontario
26 Apr 2016
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After the revolutionary war, britain initiated a policy of purchasing lands and the upper st lawrence river by treaty from the mississauga. A branch of the anicinabe who were found in several parts of northern. Ontario and around the west end of lake ontario. One of these agreements became known as the gunshot treaty" because the depth of the land purchased behind the lake was the distance at which a shot could be heard on a still day. By agreement with the indians, europeans were settled in this region and. Britain approached the resident indians for permission to settle the new land frontier with disbanded loyalist troops and their families. Between the american revolutionary war and the aftermath of the war of. 1812, the relations between indians and europeans underwent a profound change. Warfare ceased to figure prominently in government planning demilitarized the great lakes. From our lands we receive scarcely anything: the.
