Native
peoples used the natural highway provided by the
river valley to traverse southern Ontario by
canoe, winter sled and on foot.
The
banks of the Thames provided campsites for
hunting and fishing and fertile lands for growing
the "Three Sisters" (beans, squash,
corn).
A fur
trading network with Europeans existed from the
early 1700s.
The
lands of the Chippewa of
the Thames, Munsee-Delaware, Oneida and Moravian
of the Thames First Nations were established
through Treaties in 1784 and 1819 or by
purchasing land.
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