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Aboriginal people lived on the land for millennia before European settlers came for means of exploration and colonization. Before Europeans traveled to North America, first nations people, mostly Algonquian and Iroquoian , shared the land where Ontario is now located.
help Aboriginal people to access Ontario government programs, services and information; reform the land claims process to help address historical grievances; and; encourage diversity, especially representation of Aboriginal people, in the Ontario Public Service. The ministry has four key priorities: Stronger Indigenous Relationships;
The Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area covers 36,000 square kilometers of land under Aboriginal title in eastern Ontario, home to more than 1.2 million people. [1]The Algonquins of Ontario comprise the First Nations of Pikwakanagan, Bonnechere, Greater Golden Lake, Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini (Bancroft), Mattawa/North Bay, Ottawa, Shabot Obaadjiwan (Sharbot Lake), Snimikobi (Ardoch) and ...
The 1996 Report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People described four stages in Canadian history that overlap and occur at different times in different regions: 1) Pre-contact – Different Worlds – Contact; 2) Early Colonies (1500–1763); 3) Displacement and Assimilation (1764–1969); and 4) Renewal to Constitutional Entrenchment (2018).
The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada.It is focused on land along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, a 385,000-hectare (950,000-acre) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for ...
It is represented in museum, historical and archaeological records. With the death of Shanawdithit in 1829, [78] the Beothuk people, and the Indigenous people of Newfoundland were officially declared extinct after suffering epidemics, starvation, loss of access to food sources, and displacement by English and French fishermen and traders. [79]
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.
Prince Arthur with the Chiefs of the Six Nations at the Mohawk Chapel, Brantford, 1869. The association between Indigenous peoples in Canada and the Canadian Crown is both statutory and traditional, the treaties being seen by the first peoples both as legal contracts and as perpetual and personal promises by successive reigning kings and queens to protect the welfare of Indigenous peoples ...