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Solomon White for some years a member of the Legislature of Ontario is 

 a son of Chief Joseph White. In this connection it ma;^ be mentioned 

 that Mr. Wiilliam Walker, who was the first G-overnor of the Provisional 

 Territory of JSTebraska in 1853, was a Wyandott from the Detroit River. 



If time permitted we could make an extensive study of the work 

 done by archasologists in identifying the sites oi the old Huron villages. 

 French (janadiams interested in the history of the Jesuits have traversed 

 the fields and wooded hills of Simcoe County with the Jesuit Relatione 

 in their hands locating here a village, there an ossuary. Archaeologists 

 of Ontario have with pick and shovel dug up hatchets and arrow heads, 

 pipes, bowls, large shells from the Gulf of Mexico and the wampumi 

 made therefrom, and, to-day, thanks to the labours of Dr. Taché, Father 

 Martin, Mr. David Boyle of Toronto, Mr. A. F. Hunter of Barrie, Mr. 

 J. H. Hammond of Orillia, and many others, we are able to reproduce 

 the map of old Huronia with no little degree of accuracy. W'e must 

 acknowledge our great indebtedness to the papers scattered through the 

 Ontario Arcliseologicail Reports, and to the painstaking researches of 

 Rev. Father Jones, Archivist of St. Mary's College, Montreal, who has 

 in his keeping many of the original records of the Jesuit Missionaries, 

 and who has in preparation a work on the identification of the sites of 

 villages and missions in old Huronia. 



My story, condensed amd but imperfectly related, has been told. 

 Two hundred and fifty years and more ago, a strong haughty nation was 

 entrenched upon the shores of Georgian Bay. To-day one remnant lives 

 far east, near neighbours to the French Cana(dians of old Quebec; 

 another remnant lives a thousand miles away to the south, beyond the 

 Mississippi and Missouri; and traces may be discovered along the banks 

 of the Detroit River. Some of the descenda;nts of their old enemies and 

 destroyers have shared with them their lands in the Indian Territory, 

 while others till the fields and raise their crops of corn along the Grand 

 River and in the Bay of Quinte. 



The story that I have tried to tell you forms part of the greater 

 history of the struggle of the people of Europe for the control of the 

 trade of this Continent and the owmership of the land. It forms a part 

 also of the story of the early efforts to convert the savages of this Con- 

 tinent to Christianity. Apart from these two relationships it is a story 

 that in itself is full of interest, a story that should appeal to our 

 Canadian singers, a story that should be known to very one who calls 

 himself Canadian. 



