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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, No.17-20
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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m; grossin religions matters, shrewd and crafty for trade or profit, but very superstitious. Lk Clercq. Establissement de la Foy. Vol. I, p. 110. When Champlain, in 161.3, ascended the Ottawa to Allumet Island, he was toldby his Algonquin allies of a tribe of their nation, whose hunting grounds werearound a lake west of the Algonquin River. The tribe was called Nipisirinien orLittle Water People. This is the first mention in Canadian history of the Xipis-sings. or Xipisingues, as written by Frontenac. Jean Xicolet, explorer and interpreter, on the advice of Champlain. left theAlgonquins of the Ottawa, and, in 1620. became an adopted member of the Xipis-sings. with wliom lie remained for nearly nine years. Imin liis journal, the mainfeatures of which are incorporated with the .Tesuit Relations of 1610-3. and from * Relation. 1663. ARCH/EOLOCICAL EEPORT. 15 flU iwu wm rail en iiiyi mu 111111 umi ,imu janum, „». ...... ■■■.■ ,;;,;;j,. M . •• ;^ Jf ■■■ V. •« .♦ ^
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U) AKCHxEOLOGlCAL KKPOUT. iiiformution furnished to their religious superior hy Fatliers Claude Pijart, Charlesliaymhault, and IJeue .Meiiard, we are in possession of some valualjle and interesting-details of this almost extinet tribe. The IlrxTixG Gisounds. We have no reliable information of the exaet Ijoundaries of the lauds claimedby the Xipissings. Xorth of Lake Xipissing tlicy Inintcd and fislied over thej)resent townships of Mulock nml .Mm-ick. and nii i;iiiil> tdinliiiig tlic forot- of theTemagamis and Tendscaniing>. I^astward and smil li-ca>T. tlnV i-oaiiicil o\crXij)issing townshii»s. the Algonquin Iark region, and lands lying inniicdiatcdy tothe north-west of the Ottawa Eiver. To tlie south they claimed the northerntownships of Parry Sound district, and. westward, their territory lay on botli sidesof the French Eiver almost to tlie shores of the Georgian Bay. AVhen Champlainj)aid his first visit to the Oitawa Algonquins. tlie Xipissing land was an immenseand gloomy

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