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Title: Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Hunter, Andrew F. (Andrew Frederick), 1863-1940
Subjects: Huron Indians
Publisher: Toronto Warwick & Rutter
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ight the Iroquois. (b) It was on the only route from Ste. Marie eastward to VictoriaHarbor, which was the centre of the Huron population then living in thislocality, as remains clearly show. The ground immediately south of thistrail was, in Huron times, unsuitable for much travelling, its surface con-sisting of hummocks surrounded by thickets and by small streams flowinginto Mud Lake. And so far as this southerly ground has been examined,it yields no traces of villages or trails. (c) The relics found at this site are of such kinds (French irontomahawks, etc.,) as to show that this was a village of the very latestperiod of the Huron occupation of the district. The existence of palisad-ing also tends to prove the same, because, farther back in the country,the Huron villages of earlier date seldom had palisades. Of all the forti-fied villages belonging to that latest period yet found, this is the nearestto Ste. Marie. (d) As to the distance of St. Louis from Ste. Marie, a little apparent
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HISTORIC SITES OF TAY 11 diversity in the evidence furnished by the records confronts us, but it isapparent rather than real. The Rev. Paul Ragueneau (Relation, 1649)gives us the distance as not more than a league (2.42 English miles) ; butGhristophe Regnaut explicitly makes it much less. (See Letter, CanadianArchives Report, 1884). The latter writer uses the name St. Ignace(really applied to the mission among all these villages, as Ragueneau alsotells us) for the village to which the two missionaries had set out, anddoes not mention the name St. Louis. Regnaut gives the distance asabout a short quarter of a league from Ste. Marie. The site under con-sideration, therefore, is not at variance with the conditions prescribed byeither of these writers, or by the Rev. F. J. Bressani, who (in his BreveRelatione) says the distance was not more than two Italian miles fromSte. Marie. (An Italian mile was 132 yards less than our English mile).The Rev. A. E. Jones, S. J., disputes the testimony

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