Reader points out history of Indigenous Peoples in this area

There is a rumour in town about providing the newer area of the King’s Navy Yard Park (former Duffy’s property) with an Indigenous name, in which case it must be remembered that the area was Huron/Wendat territory of the Wyandot Nation of Anderdon, whose presence was shown by the Wyandot cemetery at Front Road North and County Road 10, the Assumption Parish (1740)  originally known as “Mission of Our Lady of the Assumption among the Hurons,” the Huron Church Road next to Assumption Church, the Huron Reserve lands north of Alma Street to LaSalle (River Canard), the Treaty 35 (Aug.13, 1833) by which the Hurons ceded those lands to the Crown, and maps in the 1700s showing the area to be Huron/Wendat (available at the Marsh Historical Collection, 519-736-9191).

Pre-dating the Indigenous  nations but mentioned by them were the Mound Builders, a mysterious, ancient race that built mounds for ceremonial and burial purposes dating from 3000 BC or earlier. 

Their strong presence was felt from the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys to the Gulf of Mexico. 

Their Cahokia Mounds are the best known. 

Local mounds have disappeared due to development but some are still found in the Detroit area. 

—Terry Hall

Amherstburg

Reader points out history of Indigenous Peoples in this area