GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Graves Simcoe, Anishinaabe, Toronto Purchase
13 Feb 2018
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Video: immigration transforms the demography of the city. Video: a history of toronto #20 - yonge street and the ttc. Yonge street and the beginning of the ttc. Toronto has been a site for human habitation for 10,000 years: several pre-contact. Aboriginal settlements and burial grounds have been identified. Different iroquoian cultural groups lived in the area we call the gta. These groups interrelated in a variety of ways throughout the centuries. Reasons for interrelating fighting a common enemy, adopting each other"s culture Image: port of a palisaded huron-iroquois village, longhouses. Within the settlement were cultivations, fences to protect them from wildlife and enemy attack. From the seneca to the anishinabek (the mississaugas were part of the anishinabek) 1750-60: relations between the french and the mississaugas. First europeans that arrived were the french; came here for trading purposes. French needed fur pelts, found in the interior of canada.
