1 (Return)Mr. J. H. Scott, of St. Thomas, has made a number of photographs of the mounds at the instance of an American lady, who, it is understood, will reproduce them in a work about to be published by her.
2 (Return)Alexis corresponds with the actual position of the Southwold Earthwork, and the stream with that of Kettle Creek.
3 (Return)The principal "bourg" was Ehwae, surnamed S. Pierre et S. Paul. If S. Pierre on Sanson's map is the same place, this most have been near the southern end of the county of Bruce. The other village or mission shown on the map is S. Simon et S. Iude.
4 (Return)In another place it is stated that there were 40 villages of the Neutrals in all.
5 (Return)This is the most probable inference from the facts stated by Galinee.
6 (Return)Galinee's map is reproduced in Faillon's Histoire de la Colonie Francaise.
7 (Return)Evidently the Rondeau.
8 (Return)This was Point Pelee.
9 (Return)General John S. Clarke, of Auburn, N. Y., in correspondence with the present writer, dwells upon the importance of the Kettle Creek portage route in the seventeenth century. He is a recognized authority upon the subject of Indian trade routes.
10 (Return)History of Middlesex County, p. 17.
11 (Return)"Peter Jones and the Ojebway Indians," p. 113.
12 (Return)The north shore of Lake Erie appears to have been so little known to the officials, that Kettle Creek and Cat Fish Creek were continually confused and taken as being one or different streams as chance would have it. The Land-board considered that a surrender of the lands west of Kettle Creek gave the Crown all the territory not previously ceded. The Indians at Detroit who made the cession were the Ojibways, Hurons, Ottawas and Pottawatamies.
13 (Return)This river is what is now known as "Big Creek" and, answers this description at the present day. It enters the lake a little above Fort Rowan.
14 (Return)This charming country is evidently, the greater part of it, the County of Elgin, as the portage is not more than thirteen miles from the boundary line of Bayham. In passing up the lake one would meet with a great variety of landscape as the sand-hills in Houghton and the mouths of the Otter, Catfish and other creeks would be passed. The lofty pines and chestnuts and oaks along this coast, in their original state no doubt appeared like the "finest forest in the world."
15 (Return)Kettle and Catfish Creeks.
16 (Return)Record book of the Land Board at Detroit, now in the Crown Lands Department at Toronto.
17 (Return)Dr. Scadding's notes to his reprint of Littlehales' Journal.
18 (Return)This was no doubt where London now is.
19 (Return)Afterwards referred to by the diarist as the high bank.
20 (Return)Note Peter Jones' statement as quoted on page 28.
21 (Return)Now the city of London.
22 (Return)This disposes of the story told by Colonel Talbot to Mrs. Jamieson in 1837. He informed her that the name originated from his men having lost a kettle in the creek. But the creek was called Riviere a la Chaudiere or Kettle River by the French, and that is one of the names given to it in D. W. Smith's Gazetteer, of Upper Canada published in 1799.
23 (Return)The writer has not been able to see Mr. McNiff's report upon this survey.
24 (Return)Tiffany's Upper Canada Almanac, Niagara, 1802.