Mississagua Indians
A tribe of Algonquian stock. They are named on
Galinee's map of 1670 as occupying the north shore of Lake Huron, about
the mouth of Thessalon River. Some were at the mission of Sault Ste.
Marie, 1670-1673. After the great Iroquois raid of 1650, they scattered
to the north country. A hundred years later, some of the tribe were
found on the borders of Lake Ontario. They had been absorbed by the
Iroquois in 1746. About seven hundred are now living on reservations in
Ontario. =Index=: (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Engage in ginseng trade, 148; lands purchased
from, 265. =Bib.=: Chamberlain, Notes on the History, Customs and
Beliefs of the Mississaguas; Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian
Languages; Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites.