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Newash Reserve |
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Prior to 1857, there was an Ojibwa settlement in the Newash Reserve. Archaeologist Charles Garrad has mentioned that the area also likely had Iroquois occupation pre-dating the Ojibwa, as the Newash area is right beside Owen Sound's harbour and river mouths, where fishing and hunting took place. In 1857, the Peter Jones Treaty moved the Newash Ojibwa to Cape Croker, and the Newash Reserve was surveyed into the townplot of Brookeholm (later called Brooke). Non-native settlement was slow to develop there, due to land speculation, but it eventually became a residential area. Owen Sounders would often find First Nations artefacts there in the 19th-century, and there were also First Nations graves uncovered there. |
