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them, were men who hunted the long-haired elephant on the banks of 
an ancient and larger Lake Ontario. 
Returning to the period when Anglo-Saxon sway here began, we find 
that in the treaties of 1787 and 1805 the native owners were represented 
by Chechalk, Quenepenon, Wabukanyne, Acheton, Wabenose, Osenego, 
Kebebonecence, Okemapenesse, all chiefs or leading councillors, who 
appended their totems in much the same manner as the English barons 
attached their seals to King John’s charter. Some of these names also 
appear in treaties made by Governor Simcoe. It seems a strange omis- 
sion that none of the names of these old sovereigns of the soil are per- 
petuated in any part of the princely territory they once occupied. 
Governor Simcoe came from his little capital at Newark, now Niagara, 
and spent part of the winter of 1793-94 in a tent near the Old Fort. He 
often met representatives of the Mississaugas but the treaties that he 
made at Niagara mostly concerned the Iroquois. The Governor at this 
time determined to make Toronto the capital. He went up the Don 
valley by a winding path under the shade of great oaks, elms and 
beeches and there, in sight of the favourite camping grounds of the 
Mississaugas, erected a summer residence the site of which is still defined. 
It was named Castle Frank in honour of his son. This house was long 
ago consumed by fire. Young Frank was a brave lad, who entered the 
army and fell in his country’s cause at Badajoz in Spain. (c) 
I regret being unable to single out any of the Mississaugas mentioned 
for deeds of prowess and other distinction, but there were many of the 
Algic stock of that time and since who won renown, some whose fame 
was confined to their locality and tribe, and some who were known 
throughout the nation, 
SHINGUAKONGSE whose name signifies the “Little Pine,’ was the 
son of a Chippewa woman and British officer. When the fathér was re- 
moved from a western to a Lower Canada command, the mother stayed 
with her Ojibway relatives and kept the boy, educating him in Indian 
fashion. He early distinguished himself in the pursuit of Stoic virtues, 
and in his tenth year fasted twice, ten days in succession. He fasted to 
have fine dreams, that is, to have his head clear and his body enured to 
bear great exertion. He wished to know all that could be learned on 
earth and in heaven. His mother became wife of an Indian and her 
first-born sometimes suffered from neglect. Once as the boy lay on his 
(c) The Duke de Liancourt, when visiting the Governor in 1795, wrote: ‘* There have not been more than 
twelve houses hitherto built at York ; they stand on the bay near the river Don. In a circumference of one 
hundred and fifty miles, the Indians are the only neighbours of York, They belong to the Mississaugas.” 
