Missisage

The Missisage were Ojibwe communities associated with the Mississagi River and northern Lake Huron. Around 1700, after the Iroquois withdrew, Ojibwe people moved to the northern shore of Lake Ontario, where the name Mississauga also came into use.

From 1781 the British Crown acquired land from Mississauga communities in southern Ontario, partly to compensate Iroquois allies for land lost to American colonists. An agreement for the Toronto area followed in 1787 and was revisited in 1805, though its terms remained disputed.