The Great Migration
The Bowmanville Creek Valley is situated within the traditional and treaty territory of the the Mississaugas and Chippewas of the Anishinaabeg.
The Anishinaabeg tell the story of a migration of their people from lands to the east (Atlantic Canada today) to the lands around the Great Lakes. At the time the Anishinaabeg (represented today by the Ojibway, also called Chippewa, Odawa, Potawattomi, Mississauga and others) were one people. About 1500 years ago, seven prophets visited the people and instructed them to move westward to ‘the land where food grows on the water’ or they would be destroyed because of the many settlers not of the Anishinaabe blood who would soon arrive.