GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mississagi River, Bead Hill, Toronto Islands
16 Sep 2018
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People of the rock, cord, deer, and bear. People of the mountains, swamps, hills, standing stone, and flint. The expansion, the defeat, of the huron-wendat confederacy. With people concentrating their settlement to the north and elsewhere, the new huron-wendat confederacy used the now-uninhabited area around. Toronto as a hinterland for hunter and fishing, while the toronto passage itself continues to serve as a convenient north-side route. The huron-wendate confederacy was defeated by the iroquois. By 1650-1660, the area around toronto and as far away as pennsylvania, the ohio valley, and the lower michigan peninsula became. The character of the toronto area shifted again, from being a hinterland for the now-dispersed hurons of georgian bay, as it had been since the end of the 1500s, to a colonized area for the iroquois from new york. Strategic sites of the late 17th century (1600s) Archaeologists have excavated two of the seven seneca villages in toronto:
