Saugeen

Saugeen lies on the eastern side of Lake Huron, where river mouths, shores and inland forests form the country of the Saugeen Anishnaabek. Fishing, hunting and gathering drew on resources across land and water, while canoes and paths connected communities with neighbouring places.

The wider Great Lakes region changed through warfare, epidemics, trade and shifting alliances during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1836, the Crown pressed the Saugeen Anishnaabek to sign Treaty 45½, opening lands south of the peninsula to settlement. The agreement marked an important change in control of part of their territory near the end of the period.