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Introduction: Where Histories Meet
Part One: The Toronto Carrying Place
Toronto’s Indigenous Name
Deep Time in the Humber River Watershed
Trade and Colonial Rivalries
Founding York
Early British Treaties
Turning Indigenous Territory into Private Property
Indigenous-Settler Encounters
Settlers on Indigenous Lands
Changing Relationships
The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath
The Postwar Fur Trade along Yonge Street
Deforestation, Farming, and Milling
The Civilizational Agenda
Indigenous Christianity
Yonge Street Camp Meetings
The Credit Mission
The Coldwater and the Narrows Settlement
“Progress,” Setbacks, and Strategies for Self-Sufficiency
Agency in Times of Struggle
The Quest for Secure Land Tenure
Defending the Crown
Surviving, Rebuilding, Adapting, Resisting
From Civilization to Assimilation
Black Wampum
New Strategies for Dark Times
The Indian Act and the Great Council Fire
After 1876
Conclusion: Confronting History, (Re)making History
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography
Map Credits
Notes
Index
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