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Tay is a township in Central Ontario, Canada, located in Simcoe County in the southern Georgian Bay region. The township was named in 1822 after a pet dog of Lady Sarah Maitland (1792–1873), wife of Sir Peregrine Maitland , Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, ... A typical village or town historically had 900 to 1,600 people organized into 30 or 40 longhouses. [22]
The Huron-Wendat Nation (or Huron-Wendat First Nation) is an Iroquoian-speaking nation that was established in the 17th century. In the French language, used by most members of the First Nation, they are known as the Nation Huronne-Wendat .
Huronia (Wendat: Wendake) is a historical region in the province of Ontario, Canada.It is positioned between lakes Simcoe, Ontario, and Huron.Similarly to the latter, it takes its name from the Wendat or Huron, an Iroquoian-speaking people, who lived there from prehistoric times until 1649 during the Beaver Wars when they were defeated and displaced by the Five Nations of the Iroquois who ...
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
Cage-Free. As the label implies, the hens that produce cage-free eggs, do indeed live outside of cages.However, that does not mean that they have room to roam around. "They are often kept indoors ...
Police in Thailand have detained the British husband of Lamduan Armitage, the Thai woman whose body was found in the Yorkshire Dales more than 20 years ago. Walkers discovered her half-naked body ...
It is the largest Wendat ancestral village excavated to date. The same community was formerly thought to have left the Mantle Site circa 1550 to establish the so-called Ratcliff Site and the Aurora Site, to the north-west in what is today the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville. New analysis in 2018 established that the Mantle Site was active from ...