Donald B. Smith - Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada

For the full scope of manuscript material consulted, please see first the Selected Bibliography in Sacred Feathers, 33960. In this bibliography, I include important sources used for both Sacred Feathers, and its sequel, Mississauga Portraits. The emphasis is on titles and sources that have appeared since 1987.

Archives of Ontario (AO), Toronto

Eliza Field Jones Carey, Brant County, Will/Estate, File 1433

Augustus Jones, Names of the Rivers, and Creeks, as they are called by the Mississauguas dated 4 July 1796, RG 1-2, vol. 32, pp. 1035, MS 7433

Peter Jones, Probate Will, RG 22, box 14; also Surrogate Court Records. 1856, MS 638, Reel 53

William Jones, Indian Agent Baldoon, Upper Canada, 18311839, Letter Book, 18311839

Thomas Need, Notebook (vol. 1), Thomas Need Papers, F58-5-0-1, MU 2186.

John Strachan Papers, Series F983-1

A.E. Williams, United Bands of the Chippewas and the Mississaugas collection, Fonds 4337, Mss. 26047

Grey Roots Archival Collection, Owen Sound, Ontario

William Sutton, Journal.

Hudsons Bay Company Archives (HBCA), Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg

Correspondence between Peter Jacobs and Sir George Simpson, D.4/71, fo. 119d; D.4/72, fo. 86; D.4/72, fos. 144, 152

John Rylands University Library, Manchester, England

Wesleyan Methodist Church Correspondence

Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Ottawa

Central [Toronto] Superintendency, Correspondence, 18451879, RG 10, vols. 40535

Central [Toronto] Superintendency, Letterbooks, 18451883, RG 10, vols. 53266

J.B. Clench, 1854, RG 10, vol. 802.

Governor-Generals Correspondence, RG 7 G 14, vols. 34

Jarvis Correspondence, 18371845, RG 10, vols. 12439, those volumes containing J correspondence

Sir John Henry Lefroy Papers, MG 24, H25

Minutes of Indian Councils, New Credit, 18831910, RG 10, vols. 17334

Mississaugas of the Credit- (Cape Croker Agency)- Petition of Catherine Sutton to be restored to the Paylist of the Cape Croker Band and Request for Arrears in Interest Money, 18521900, RG 10, vol. 2877, file 177,181

Notes historiques pour servir lhistoire de la Mission du lac des Deux Montagnes, Abb Cuoq, MG 17, A7-2-6, vol. 18

Paudash Papers [Credit Mississauga Papers], RG 10, vol. 1011, containing the Credit Mission: Letterbook, 18251842; Entry Book, 18311848; Council Minutes, 18351848. (These papers have been misidentified in old inventories of Library and Archives Canada as the Paudash Papers, after the nineteenth-century Rice Lake Chief, George Paudash. Actually the three items identified above relate to the Credit Mississauga.)

Records of Chief Superintendents Office, Upper Canada, 18291845, RG 10, Letter Books, vols. 498505

Records of the Civil Secretarys Office, 18441861, Correspondence, 18441861, RG 10, vols. 21145

Rev. Allen Salt Papers, 18651906, MG 29 H11

Six Nations (Grand River) Superintendency, Correspondence, 18471859, RG 10, vols. 81151

Western (Sarnia) Superintendency, Correspondence, RG 10, vols. 43641

Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota

Grace Lee Nute Papers, Transcripts of references to George Copway

Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation (MNCFN) Archives, New Credit Reserve, Hagersville, Ontario

In private possession, Lloyd King, New Credit Reserve, Hagersville. New Credit Mission Book, 16 June 1852 8 May 1896

Lloyd King, Mississaugas of the Credit: History of Education. [New Credit: MNCFN], n.d.

Lloyd King, Early Days at New Credit, ed. by George Beaver. New Credit: MNCFN, 1997

Lloyd King, History of the New Credit Church and History of the Roads at New Credit. New Credit: MNCFN, 1999

Margaret Sault, The History of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation. New Credit: MNCFN, n.d.

No. 5, Letters and Annuities Book, or, Letters, Minutes, New Credit Registry, 18471874

New-York Historical Society, New York City

Selby Prideaux, Copybook, Record of Council and Speeches to and from the Indian Nations in the Province of Upper Canada, 17961803

Oakville Historical Society, Oakville, Ontario

Notes on Reminiscences of John Aikman Williams, by Hazel C. Mathews

Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire

Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) Papers, Box 1 (18411850) and Box 2 (18511860)

J.J. Talman Regional History Library, Western University

Rev. James Evans Papers

Wawanosh Family Papers

Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, University of Toronto

Charles Fothergill Papers

Toronto Reference Library, Toronto Public Library, Toronto

S.P. Jarvis Papers

United Church Archives, Toronto

Credit Mission Church Registry, 18261885

Methodist Church of Canada, Board of Missions, Alexander Sutherland Lettersbooks

Rev. Peter Jones, Private Journal, 13 Sept. 1829 1 Nov. 1829

Rev. H.L. Partridge, Rev. Allan Salt, a reminiscence prepared in 1950

Rev. Egerton Ryerson Papers

Rev. Benjamin Slight, Journal, 2 vols., 18341857

Rev. Solomon Waldron, A Sketch of the Life, Travels and Labours of Soloman Waldron, A Wesleyan Methodist Preacher, Written by Himself (typed copy)

Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Missions, America, The British Dominions in North America, Upper Canada (Indian Missions) and Sundry Places (photostatted copies of correspondence)

Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, General Board of Minutes, Missionary Secretary Correspondence, Enoch Wood Letterbooks (78.082C)

Victoria University Library in the University of Toronto

The Peter Jones Collection, comprising:

Eliza Field Jones Carey:

Diaries and notebooks, 1823, 1828, 1829, 1832, 1833, 183435, 1845 (Scottish Journal), 1854, 1856, 186364, 1869, 186970, 1871, 1872, 187374, 188081, 1882, 1883

Rev. Peter Jones:

Anecdote Book

Brief Account of Kahkewaquonaby written by Himself

Copy of Letterbook (The letters are to his wife, Eliza Jones; the latter book is in her hand and was copied from original letters.)

Diaries, 6 Dec. 1827 14 Feb. 1828; 15 Feb. 1828 8 April 1828; 23 Aug. 1828 17 Sept. 1828

History of the Ojebway Notebook

Letters to and from Rev. Peter Jones

Sermons

Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

Lyman Draper Papers

Alder, Robert. Wesleyan Missions: Their Progress Stated and Claims Enforced. London: Wesleyan Missionary Society, 1842.

Alexander, J.E. Transatlantic Sketches. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1833.

Assikinack, Francis. Legends and Traditions of the Odahwah Indians. Canadian Journal, n.s., 3 (1858): 11525.

Assikinack, Francis. Social and Warlike Customs of the Odawah Indians. Canadian Journal, n.s., 3 (1858): 297309.

Assikinack, Francis. The Odahwah Indian Language. Canadian Journal, n.s., 3 (1858): 4815.

Assikinack, Francis. Remarks on the paper headed The Odahwah Indian Language, Published in the Canadian Journal for Nov., 1858, Canadian Journal, n.s., 5 (1860): 1826.

Brown, William. America: A Four Years Residence in the United States and Canada. Leeds: Printed for the Author, 1849.

Brunson, Alfred. The Western Pioneer; or, Incidents of the Life and Times of Rev. Alfred Brunson. 2 vols. Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1872, 1879.