Nepigon, and Michipicoton. As traders appeared along the north shore, some of the Ojibways who had lived at Sault Ste. Marie settled near them, and gradually spread over what is now the Dominion of Canada.
The Canadian Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the year ending June 30, 1883, estimates the Ojibway population as follows:—
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.
Ojibways and Ottawas of Manitoulin and Cockburn Islands |
1673 | ||
| Ojibways | of | Lake Huron | 2934 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Georgian Bay | 685 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Lake Superior | 1883 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Garden River near Sault Ste. Marie and Batchewana Bay |
725 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Beau Soleil | 813 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Nawash | 897 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Saugeen, County Bruce | 868 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Rama, County Ontario | 247 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Snake Island, Lake Simcoe | 135 |
| Ojibways " | of" | Sarnia, etc. | 485 |
| Ojibways " | with Ottawas and Pottawattamies of Walpole Island, River St. Clair |
789 | |
| Ojibways " | with Munsees of the Thames | 582 | |
PROVINCE OF MANITOBA.
The Ojibways did not dare to hunt in the valley of the Red River of the North, until the Northwest Company established posts at Pembina, Park River, and Red Lake River. They were then introduced as hunters, but the Crees and Assineboines, to whom the country belonged, looked upon them as intruders. In what is now Minnesota, at the junction of the Red Lake River, and the Red River of the North known as the Grand Fork, Thomas,
