New Credit Indian Reserve and Mission

Ontario's Provincial Plaques

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Photo by Alan L Brown - June 18, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Brant
The Six Nations Reserve
In New Credit, on the east side of 'New Credit Council House' on the north side of First Line just east of Onondaga Road, Street Number 2789

Plaque Text

Faced with the pressure of white settlement, the Mississauga Indians began considering in 1840 the relocation of their Credit River Village near Toronto. In 1847 the Six Nations Council made them an unsolicited offer of land on its Grand River reserve. Native spokesmen for resettlement, including the Reverend Peter Jones, a Mississauga Chief, selected land in Tuscarora and later in Oneida township. Although several had located elsewhere, some 266 Mississauga settled on lots of the New Credit Reserve in 1847. Many of these belonged to the Methodist Church and in 1848 a mission was established here by the Reverend William Ryerson. With the mission's growth and the increase in cultivated acreage, New Credit became a prosperous farming community and in 1903 the Mississauga purchased the Reserve.

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