INDIANS WHO INHABITED TORONTO 
The Mississagas had many feasts and festivals, 
especially in the old heathen days: the dog-feast, the 
deer, salmon, sturgeon, wild goose and sacred bear-oil 
feasts, etc. Some of the legends of the Mississagas 
have been recorded by Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, who 
has likewise studied their language. An interesting 
story is told of a Mississaga woman of the Credit, who 
had been to the city of Toronto to sell baskets. She 
returned by train. It was her first experience of 
railway travel, and, on getting off, she threw herself 
flat on the ground, declaring that she was “ waiting 
for her soul to come.” Mrs. Moodie, in her “ Rough- 
ing it in the Bush,” has some interesting anecdotes 
about the Mississagas of the region about Peter- 
borough, Ont. Archaeological specimens from all 
parts of the country inhabited by the Mississagas 
are to be found in the Provincial Archaeological 
Museum, some from the site of the city of Toronto 
itself. 
Further information concerning the Mississaga 
Indians will be found in the following works: 
1. Anon. (date 1801-1805). MS., pp. 52, 8vo. 
French and Indian. In the Public Library of the 
City of Toronto. Contains some 500 Mississaga 
words, some 400 phrases and sentences, about a dozen 
proper names and half-a-dozen short songs. The dia- 
lect represented is that of the Mississagas between 
York and Lake Simcoe. This MS. is important as 
giving one of the earliest known extensive vocabu- 
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