| Administrative History | From 1823 to 1825, the Canadian politician, Peter Robinson (1785-1838) administered the emigration of over 2,500 poor Catholic families from Ireland to the province of Ontario, Canada. The areas in which emigrants settled include:
- Peterborough County which was the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Mississauga, in land surrendered by the Obijwe under the Rice Lake Treaty No. 20 of 1818 and subsequently covered by the Williams Treaty
- Lanark County which was the traditional territory of the Anishnabek, Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee (St Lawrence Iroquois) peoples and is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties
- Renfrew County, the traditional territory of the Algonquin and Anishnabek, now covered by the Upper Canada Treaties
- Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnabek people |