DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BRUCE, CANADA WEST - 1867 Originally Published by J.W. ROOKLIDGE ..... Reprinted by Bruce Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
The County is devoid of mountains and hills ; the frontier of the County near the lake presents, adjoining a silvery plain somewhat elevated banks, with here and there a deeply indented ravine in which the drainage from the water troughs finds an outlet to the lake, ......... but the settlement of which belongs to the past. The Indians were somewhat numerous at one time but are now comparatively few ; they appear during the fall and winter for hunting purposes, when they usually kill many of the deer species with flint locks, used by them with unerring aim. The males are of medium size, weatherbeaten in appearance, with bare heads, long jet black hair, high cheek bones, wide mouths and short foreheads: on their feet they have moccasins, on their legs coarse blankets tied tightly with buckskin thongs, each has a blanket and a hatchet and a smoking pipe with a long wooden stem.
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