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Paper doi abstract bibtex By the mid‐1820s the landscape of the north shore of Lake Ontario was rapidly being filled by a swelling tide of European immigrants. However, as the European frontier expanded, that of the Mississaugas, who had inhabited the region, had rapidly diminished to almost nothing. Many of the Mississaugas chose one of two alternatives to this changing world. Some elected to accept the counsel of itinerant Methodist missionaries and settle in a mission village on Crape Island. By all accounts, the new mission was very successful, but the documentary record hints at resistance to the ‘civilizing’ agenda of the missionaries and the teachers. This resistance found articulation in the Kingston hinterland, where groups of Mississaugas attempted to maintain familiar lifestyles. In this paper I explore sites of power, resistance, and accommodation associated with both these groups.
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