While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Ononchataronon (Huron name). An Algonkin tribe or band that occupied the
district near' Montreal, Canada, between St Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, and
wintered near the Hurons. In 1642 they were but a remnant. They claimed to have
been the original occupants of Montreal island and of a large territory on both
sides of the St Lawrence. They said they had been conquered and dispersed by
Hurons, who were then their enemies, and that the survivors of the war had taken
refuge with the Abnaki or the Iroquois or had joined the Hurons. Hochelaga, the
village found oil the island by Cartier in 1535, was occupied by
an Iroquoian tribe, but, according to Gatschet, the remains of a
second village about 2 miles
from its site have been discovered. This would clear the confusion as to the
stock of the former occupants of the island. Shea suggests that the names Huron
and Iroquois have been transposed, which is likely. Charlevoix says that there
was a tradition that the Ononchataronon were at one time at war with the
Algonkin, and that they were drawn into an ambuscade and entirely destroyed. He
adds that at the time of his visit (1721) they had ceased to exist. This
tradition, however, seems doubtful. According to the, Jesuit Relations, at the
general peace of 1646 the French induced the Ononchataronon to settle again on
the island, but they soon scattered on account of the Iroquois. It seems they
were met with as early as 1609 by Champlain, as Iroquet; one of their chiefs,
was with him at this time. The missionaries described them as arrogant, given to
superstition and debauchery, anti very cruel.
