The Glebe Historical Timeline
Welcome to the online timelines section of the Glebe Historical Society.
This section documents significant events which occurred through the decades in the Glebe, or nearby.
Pick any decade, or begin your journey through time right from the start!
We have done our best to ascertain the accuracy of this data.
Still, we would welcome corrections or additional information.
Early human contact with the Glebe area
For hundreds of years, many tribes of Algonquin Indians used the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers for travel and trade.
Other Indian tribes used the rivers as trade routes, usually paying a toll to the Algonquins,
who controlled the river way from their "island fortress" on Morrison Island in Allumette Lake
(really part of the Ottawa River). Early French cartographers called the Ottawa River La Grande Riviere des Algoumequins.
The Glebe is Algonquin Territory. Because the Glebe area was bounded by swampy land on the west and east,
and it is not immediate to either the Ottawa or the Rideau river, there likely was no native settlement here,
although the Glebe may well have been used as hunting grounds by nomadic Indians.
Note: When the British took over the rule of British North America,
they often refer to the same geographic areas by a variety of terms, depending on the purpose fof the designation.
For example, There were Military Commands (sometimes called Military Districts)
designating areas controlled by an officer; Judicial Districts for the administration of justice under an
appointed judge; and Political Divisions for the election of representatives.
Sometimes these three had coterminus boundaries, often they did not.
This leads to some confusion in the description of the same geographical area by a variety of designations.
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