Roebuck Indian Village Site

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2005

Plaque Location

The United Counties of Leeds & Grenville
The Township of Augusta
On the south side of Road 21, street number 7779
6.8 km west of the intersection with Highway 416

Coordinates: N 44 48.580 W 75 35.862

Plaque Text

Approximately 500 years ago an Iroquoian agricultural community of about 1600 persons occupied this site. Archaeological excavations suggest that approximately 40 communal longhouses, averaging nearly 30 metres in length, stood in this village, palisaded with a stout double stockade. The farmers on the site grew corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and tobacco. A similar village, Hochelaga, on the present site of Montreal, was visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535. After this first contact with Europeans, these Indians, related to other Iroquoian-speaking peoples in northern New York and southern Ontario disappeared, although archaeological evidence suggests that some of the survivors were absorbed by the Hurons on the Trent River system.

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Posted June 9, 2012
With no ancestors remaining in the area and a lack of interest, this site lies almost abandoned and forgotten... Perhaps one day this site may hold more importance to Canadians, Aboriginals and earn a more significant monument marking this sacred place. Respect

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