Location
The Region of Peel - Mississauga
On the east side of Mississauga Road just north of the Queen Elizabeth Way beside the entrance to the Mississauga Golf and Country Club
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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Posted
April 20, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
In 1826 the government assisted a band of Mississauga, who had recently been converted to Christianity, to settle in this vicinity, and within five years laid out a village plot and constructed log cottages and a sawmill. Methodist missionaries, notably Peter Jones and Egerton Ryerson, ministered to the converts who in 1829 built a combined schoolhouse and chapel. By 1837 about 50 houses had been erected for the Indians. Three years later they had approximately 500 acres under cultivation. Pressure from local white settlement and a decline in the Indian population led to the closing of the mission and the return of the major portion of the Mississauga to the Grand River Reserve in 1847.
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