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- Topographical Notices of the Country Lying Between the Mouth of the Rideau and Penetanguishine on Lake Huron
Topographical Notices of the Country Lying Between the Mouth of the Rideau and Penetanguishine on Lake Huron
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- Held by
- Queen's University Archives via Queen's University Archives
- Dates
- ca. 1829 (indexed as 1829)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
- Scope & content
- Report: describes in great detail the timber, soil, hydrology, topography, suitability of land for cultivation, etc. of the land along Ottawa River and stretching to Lake Huron, noting that it has not yet been settled (Except at Lake of the Chats) and stating that there are several good tracts that should be laid open for that purpose. States that at least on Nesswabic [Petawawa River], hunting territory of Algonquins does not extend all the way to the height of land and that traders on the Grand River have no communication with Mississaugas as they hunt beyond the Algonquins (p. 276). States that at Cedar Lake he met Constant Pennaissez, son of the Algonquin Chief, who had his hunting winter quarters there (p. 289). Writes that from him he received an excellent chart delineating the route as far as his hunting bounds extended, nearly to the source of the Nesswabic, but states that Constant could give no distinct information as to the situation of the portages crossing the height of land. States that at Tirnberwolf Lake he met an Iroquois from the tribe who resides with the Algonquins at the Lake of Two Motmtains. Shirreff says of the Iroquois: 'They are generally robust, enterprising fellows; and, having no hunting territory of their own. frequently ascent the Ottawa and, passing over the grounds of their Algonquin friends make free with the beavers and otters on those of the Mississaguas." (p. 293) Shirreff includes a "Map of the Territory between the Ottawas River & Lake Huron Illustrative of the Paper on the Topography of that Country." Gives several place names, notations on quality of land, locations of rapids, portages, etc.
- Location
No place found in this description yet.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T11:46:29Z · source datestamp 2025-07-14T19:17:51Z · ead