Credit Mission
Credit Mission | |
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Sketch of the Credit Mission, 1827 | |
Credit Mission | |
| Coordinates: 43°33′9″N 79°37′25″W / 43.55250°N 79.62361°W | |
| Established | 1826 |
| Defunct | 1847 |
The Credit Mission was an Indian Mission on the Credit River in Upper Canada from 1826–1847.
Funded with the proceeds from Purchase #22 or #23, building began in 1826 under the leadership of Peter Jones. When construction began, about 200 Indians lived at the settlement in temporary structures. Thirty log cabins were constructed on the 200 acres (0.81 km2) of reserved land. That year Egerton Ryerson was assigned to the settlement as a Methodist missionary. A Methodist church was soon built, as was a school. John Jones was the school's first teacher. In the spring of 1827 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land were planted with crops, mostly corn and potatoes.