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Algonquin and Nipissing Collection
Collection
.5 cm of textual records
This collection consists of twelve documents concerning the settlement of the Algonquin and Nipissing First Nations at Oka, Quebec, some in Anishinaabemowin, 1831-1853. There are also letters and documents mostly addressed to N. O. Greene, a solicitor and activist, concerning the Indigenous communities of Oka, 1878-1880.
Some materials in Anishinaabemowin.
Oka, situated some 35 miles west of Montreal and the Lake of Two Mountains, was originally an Indian mission founded in 1717. A band of Iroquois from the Sault-au-Récollet Mission settled there in 1720. Its population reached 900. This number was increased further a few years later when Nipissing and Algonquin groups came from Île-aux-Tourtes across the lake to settle at Oka.
Originals.