Cahiague

Cahiagué was a major Wendat village in the country north of Lake Simcoe. It belonged to the Arendarhonon, one of the peoples of the Wendat Confederacy, whose villages and fields occupied the lands between the lake and Georgian Bay. The village was a place of councils and gathering as well as a centre of the surrounding agricultural country.

In 1615 Samuel de Champlain visited Cahiagué after travelling through Wendake. There he joined Wendat allies preparing an expedition against the Onondaga, one of the Haudenosaunee nations south of Lake Ontario. The force crossed the lake and attacked a fortified village, but failed to take it. Later accounts describe Cahiagué's population declining and dividing into two settlements that were rebuilt elsewhere, a reminder that villages could move as communities and circumstances changed.