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Reverend Peter Jones (1802-1856)
Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - April, 2010
Plaque Location
The County of Brant
In front of the New Credit Council House on the north side of
1st Line Road street number 2789 near Onondaga Road
N 42 59.991 W 80 05.672
Plaque Text
A Mississauga Chief and Methodist minister, the Reverend Peter Jones helped his people survive the impact of European settlement which had brought them close to extinction. As his Band's fishing and hunting territories disappeared, he converted his people to Christianity and induced them to adapt to European ways. A strong advocate of education, Jones was the first to make Ojibwa a written language. In 1826 he encouraged his Band to settle at the Credit River and take up farming. When settler encroachment forced the Band to leave the thriving village it had built, it moved here in 1847.
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