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Canada by way of Niagara and formed eventually 

 the well-known settlement on the Grand River. 

 The remainder, under Captain John Deserontyon, 

 escaped to Lower Canada, and, after a sojourn of 

 about six years at Lachine, some of them joined 

 the Niagara Contingent but the majority settled 

 on the Bay of Quinte Reserve. 



The area included within the Dominion of 

 Canada was, at the time of the arrival of the 

 white man, occupied by eight other great linguistic 

 families of the native race. 



TheAigon- The first of these, the Algonquins, adjoined 



quin stock the terr j tory o f the Iroquois and extended north 

 to the Hudson Bay and west-ward to the foot 

 hills of the Rockies, including such tribes as the 

 Ojibways, the Crees and the Blackfeet. 



The Athapas- The second, the Athapascan stock, &quot;extended 

 in a broad band across the Continent, from the 

 Pacific to James Bay and the Southern shore of 

 Hudson Bay, northward to the MacKenzie 

 Delta, and southward, by cognate tribes, as far as 

 the plains of Mexico.&quot; It is the most widely 

 distributed of all, and includes such divisions as 

 the Tinneh &quot;dwelling near the Rockies, in the 

 interior of Alaska, and in the mountain fastnesses 

 of British America&quot;; the Pacific Division in 

 Oregon and Northern Calfiornia; and the South 

 ern Division, as the Apaches, Navahos and 

 Lipans. 



The Koius- The third, the Koluschan, includes the Tlingit 



chan Stock 1 , 



of the borders or Alaska. 



ikittegatan The fourth, the Skittegetan, the Haidas of the 

 Queen Charlotte Islands. 



