. Papers and records of the Wentworth Historical Society . orthe services thus rendered they secured from the Crown a COUNTY OF WENTWORTK 41 grant of land extending six miles on each side- of the GrandRiver from its source to its mouth. On a portion of this re-serve a remnant of these tribes still reside and successfully fol-low agricultural pursuits. Within the last few years a greatly increased attention hasbeen given to the thorough examination of the ossuaries andcamping grounds in this section of country. Many valuablerelics have been found, and much light has been thrown uponthe manners
. Papers and records of the Wentworth Historical Society . orthe services thus rendered they secured from the Crown a COUNTY OF WENTWORTK 41 grant of land extending six miles on each side- of the GrandRiver from its source to its mouth. On a portion of this re-serve a remnant of these tribes still reside and successfully fol-low agricultural pursuits. Within the last few years a greatly increased attention hasbeen given to the thorough examination of the ossuaries andcamping grounds in this section of country. Many valuablerelics have been found, and much light has been thrown uponthe manners and customs of these ancient people. The privatecollections of Indian antiquities of Dr. J. O. McGregor, ofWaterdown, Mr. George Allison, of the same place, and theMessrs. Mullock, in the near vicinity, are well worthy the at-tention of students of Indian character. These collections arecarefully classified and arranged, and contain, both as to qualityand quantity, as large an assortment of relics as are found insimilar collections in our public THE GAGE HOMESTEAD. 42 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHAPTER III. Upper Canada an Unknown Wilderness — The Fur Trade — Trading-Posts— Fort Frontenac—Niagara a French Fort on British Ter_ritory — Besieged by the British Colonists — United Empire Loyal-ists — British Parliament Grants Substantial Aid — The NiagaraPeninsula. At the commencement of the Revolutionary war, thewestern portion of Quebec, afterwards called Upper Canada,was practically an unknown wilderness, and is said to havecontained less than two thousand of a white population. Inthe latter part of the seventeenth century, the fur trade withthe Indians began to increase rapidly and soon became a matterof great commercial importance to both English and Frenchcolonists. To increase the facilities for prosecuting this trade,and to guard the interests of those engaged in it, trading postswere established at various points in this western posts
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