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Samuel Smith gets a grant
Etobicoke was intended by the British to be included in the Toronto Purchase of 1787.
Whether the western boundary of the purchase was the Humber River or Etobicoke Creek was disputed. The Mississauga Indians allowed British surveyor Alexander Aitkin to survey the disputed land, and eventually the dispute was settled, with the Mississauga recognising the purchase as extending to Etobicoke Creek, and the British paying an additional 10 shillings for the purchase.
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Lakeshore - a bit of History on lake Ontario
Various groups of First Nations peoples occupied the land that is now south-western Toronto (south Etobicoke) at different times.
As the Algonquins gradually moved west from the Atlantic to Lake Erie, it is almost certain that they would have occupied this land at some point.
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