NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
reported as having villages or settlements at Missis- 
auga River, Manitoulin Island, Kenté, Toronto 
River, Matcitaen, and the west end of Lake Ontario, 
besides at Lake St. Clair (and Detroit). In 1746 
the Mississagas were admitted as the “ seventh tribe ” 
into the Iroquois League, having sided with the latter 
people against the French—the MS. in the Toronto 
Public Library (date c. 1801) still classes the ‘‘ Mis- 
sissagui,” or “ tribu de laigle,” as an Iroquois tribe 
(i.e., “tribu des sauvages hurons”). For a time, 
some of the Mississagas even lived within the bor- 
ders of what is now the State of New York. Their 
eastward progress in Ontario was barred by the 
Ottawas and the French,—they had a conflict with 
the latter near Cataraqui in 1705; and Charlevoix 
(1720) describes a “ fire-dance” executed by the 
Mississagas of that region some years later. They 
figure prominently in the New York Colonial Docu- 
ments of the eighteenth century. The descendants 
of these Mississagas, who migrated from the region 
north of Lake Huron, are to be found in the Missis- 
saga Indians, numbering between eight hundred and 
nine hundred, who live to-day at Rice Lake and Aln- 
wick, Mud (Chemung) Lake, Seugog Island (Lake 
Scugog), and in the settlement of the New Credit 
(Brantford). Some dwelt formerly on Grape Island, 
etc., in the Bay of Quinté. 
The Indians at the New Credit are the most 
progressive of all the Mississagas, and they are the 
ones who formerly lived on the River Credit (given 
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