- Kandoucho
Kandoucho, was one of 28
village s of theNeutral Nation , or Attawandaron, inSouthern Ontario in the 17th century and the home base for one of their chiefs, Souharissen.Fact|date=May 2008 The village contained a Jesuit mission called "All Saints ". [cite book |title=Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France 1610 - 1791 |editors= Reuben Gold Thwaites |year=1898 |publisher=The Burrows Brothers |pages=205]The exact location of the village is debated; F. Douglas Reville's "The History of the County of Brant", published in 1920, reports that historians of his era located Kandoucho near the present-day city of
Brantford, Ontario , and although verified by Sanson's map of 1656, modern archaeological scholarship rejects the accuracy of this document. [cite book |title=The Archaeology Of Southern Ontario To A.D. 1650 |editors= Chris J. Ellis & Neal Ferris |year=1990 |publisher=London Chapter of theOntario Archaeological Society |isbn=0-919350-13-5 |pages=406] The village's existence is recorded in the journals ofCatholic missionaries who visited the region in the early 17th century: Reverend FatherJoseph de La Roche Daillon , for example, spent the winter of 1625-1626 with the people, and his accounts were later translated into English by Dean Harris for his book "Pioneers of the Cross in Canada". FathersJean de Brebeuf andPierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot came to thevillage preaching Christianity in summer 1640. [Reville, F. Douglas. "The History of the County of Brant", pp. 15-16. Brantford: Hurley Printing Company, 1920. ]At about 1650, the
Iroquois declared war on the Attawandaron; by 1653, the people were practically annihilated,Fact|date=July 2008 and their villages were wiped out, including Kandoucho. [Reville, F. Douglas. "The History of the County of Brant", p. 20. Brantford: Hurley Printing Company, 1920. ]References
ee also
[http://www.brantford.library.on.ca/genealogy/pdfs/reville1.pdf] - F. Douglas Reville's "The History of the County of Brant", care of the Brantford Public Library. See Chapter 1 for the Attawandaron.
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