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Teiaiagon was an Iroquoian village on the east bank of the Humber River in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was located along the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail. The site is near the current intersection of Jane Street and Annette Street, at which is situated the community of Baby Point. ==History== The establishment of the village has faded into time immemorial. Percy Robinson's ''Toronto Before the French Regime'' shows Teiaiagon as being a jointly occupied village of Seneca and Mohawk. Helen Tanner's ''Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History'' describes Teiaiagon as a Seneca village around the years 1685-1687, although it existed before that time, and as a Mississauga village around 1696.〔Tanner 1987: 33〕 Though the regional population movements were complex, a major shift in the village history as displayed in archaeological evidence appears to have been connected to the formation of a league among the five Iroquois nations south of Lake Ontario before the arrival of Europeans. The "League Iroquois" engaged in escalating warfare against other Iroquoians. Étienne Brûlé passed through Teiaiagon in 1615.〔(Teiaiagon )〕 The village was on an important route for the developing fur trade industry,〔Williamson 2008: 50〕 and was also "surrounded by horticultural fields".〔Williamson 2008: 51〕 It was said to be about "a day's journey from the Toronto Lake, our present Lake Simcoe".〔Lizars 1913: 17〕 On November 18, 1678 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle departed Fort Frontenac for Niagara in a brigantine with a crew including La Motte and the Récollet missionary Louis Hennepin, following the north shore of Lake Ontario to mitigate the effects of a storm. The ship was grounded three times, forcing the crew to stop at the mouth of the Humber River on 26 November. The surprised inhabitants of the village "were hospitable and supplied them with provisions".〔Lizars 1913: 24〕 On December 5, the ship set off after being cut out of the ice with axes.〔 Before departing, "La Motte's men bartered their commodities with the natives" for corn.〔Lizars 1913: 25〕 Hennepin and others have recorded that the village was inhabited by as many as 5000 people and had 50 long houses. La Salle camped at Teiaiagon several other times, once in the summer of 1680, and "perhaps twice in 1681" during his expeditions.〔 There was a burial ground located in the central part of the village. The Senecas left the village, either pushed out by, or voluntarily for, the Mississaugas by 1701. With the removal of the Iroquois from southern Ontario by the Mississaugas,〔Eid 1979〕 the Anishinaabe and French trade began to flourish in the region shortly after the Great Peace of Montreal of 1701. Associated with this trade, there was a very small French garrison or ''magasin royale'' located somewhere by the site of Teiaiagon from 1720-1730. In 1730 the French garrison was located downriver of the site. A store was later built at the mouth of the Humber in 1750 and Fort Rouillé at the same time east of the Humber. The Mississaugas did not live at the site of the village of Teiaiagon, but had a village located across the Humber River, on the west bank of the river, near Old Mill Road and Bloor Street from 1788-1805. James Bâby from Detroit in 1816 acquired the land now called ''Baby Point'' and only had orchards located on the site of Teiaiagon. The site was relatively undisturbed as it was not farmed. The Teiaiagon area was acquired by the government for military fortress and army barracks, but then was sold to Robert Home Smith who began developing the Baby Point subdivision in 1912. In 1949, at the south-west corner of Baby Point Road and Baby Point Crescent, a plaque was erected, briefly mentioning "Taiaiagon." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teiaiagon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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