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Catalog Number |
BR2021.5.1 |
Object Name |
Scroll |
Description |
A deer skin scroll attached with three ties on both the top and bottom to two medicine sticks. The skin has "Greetings from Mississaugas of New Credit, Jan. 1st 1847-1968" burned into the leather as well as an outline around the message. The edges of the scroll were cut with pinking sheers to create a sawtooth pattern. The scroll is mounted in a frame on a black mat board. The frame is black with gold inner and outer edges and is covered with glass. A white rectangular mat board is mounted underneath with typed lettering that reads " This Indian scroll, handmade by the Mississaugas of New Credit Reserve at Hagersville, Ontario, and mounted on Indian medicine sticks, was presented to the first mayor, Robert W. Speck, of the Town of Mississauga, on January 1, 1968, on the occasion of the birth of the new town." "25743" is printed in white on the back. |
Year Range from |
1968 |
Dimensions |
H-2.5 W-51.5 L-55 cm |
History |
This scroll was presented to Robert Speck, Mayor of the Town of Mississauga in 1968 by the Mississaugas of the New Credit- now Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. "The birth of the new town was celebrated at a Midnight ceremony on January 1, 1968. "Robert Speck, the first mayor of the Town of Mississauga, and a crowd of 500 citizens enjoyed fireworks and speeches to mark the occasion. Among the crowd that night was Chief Fred King of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Chief King took the opportunity to remind the good people that the Town of Mississauga was built on lands acquired from his people many years earlier. The Chief, on behalf of the First Nation, presented a medicine stick as a token of good luck to Mayor Speck; in return, Speck presented King with a scroll and a gold key to the Town. While the scroll and the gold key have long since disappeared, another symbol of friendship between the Town of Mississauga and the First Nation has been on display at the New Credit Public Library for years. On July 20, 1968, the Mayor and Council of the Town of Mississauga presented a scroll granting the "Honorary Freedom of the Town" to the Council and Members of the "Mississaugas of the New Credit Reserve" and was "evidence of the desire by the town to develop a bond of affection and regard with the descendants of the Indian inhabitants of this area, from whence the name originated." Ref': http://mncfn.ca/historical-tidbit-the-city-of-mississauga-origin-of-name-and-coat-of-arms/ |
People |
Speck, Bob King, Fred |