The Beginning

In the beginning, over 11,000 years ago, in the area of Lake Ontario there lived a hunting and gathering tribe, not much is known about this tribe do to the fact that there stomping ground was on the area where the lake is currently. 

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As the climate warmed it became easier for the groups to settle down and stay in the area surrounding Lake Ontario. They began 3,000 years ago, catching fish such as salmon, making hunting weapons such as arrows, trading with other native tribes, and growing the Three Sisters; corn, beans and squash on little plots of land outside their homes.



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By 1550 goods from the Europeans began reaching the natives, not directly, but through other natives. Not many people in the Lake Ontario area had seen a European of any kind due to their location.