Ganneious

Ganneious was an Oneida village in the Bay of Quinte country on the northern side of Lake Ontario. Founded during the later 1660s or early 1670s, it was one of a chain of Haudenosaunee settlements placed near inland routes along the lakeshore. The neighbouring village of Kenté was associated with Cayuga people. Together these communities formed the eastern part of a network that reached west towards the rivers and portages leading into the interior.

French missionaries visited the northern villages after the Sulpicians established a mission at Kenté in 1668. The Récollet Louis Hennepin later recorded a visit to Ganneious in the 1670s. French construction of Fort Frontenac at the outlet of Lake Ontario brought a new post into the same region of Indigenous settlement and trade.