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When the Landlords Became Tenants The 1828 Council at Fort York with the Mississauga Mon. September 27, 7:30 pm On 30 January 1828, three leading Mississauga chiefs –Ajetance from the Credit River to the west of York; Sunday from the Bay of Quinte to the east; and Paudash from Rice Lake to the northeast – met in Council at Fort York. The Indian Agent quickly came to the point. Bluntly, he informed the Mississauga that, contrary to the Mississaugas’ own understanding, the British now owned the land on which their communities stood. In his illustrated talk Donald Smith, recently retired from the University of Calgary and the author of Sacred Feathers (University of Toronto Press,1987), a biography of Mississauga chief Peter Jones, will review the history of the Mississauga in the early and mid-19th century. Peter Jones’s minutes of the 1828 Fort York Council provide the starting point for his illustrated talk. Responding to Professor Smith’s presentation will be a review of the 180 years of Mississauga history since 1828 by a historian and community leader from today’s Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation (www. newcreditfirstnation.com). Cost $9 (including HST)
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