Toronto researchers help uncover Ontario First Nations' donations to Irish Famine relief fund

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Researchers say newly discovered archival records reveal an important connection between Ontario First Nations and Irish famine victims.

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McGowan says the documents show Mohawks, Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations, Chippewa, Delaware, Wyandotte, and Mississauga peoples had donated £115, an amount equivalent to $12,426 today.

With further donations from the Saugeen, Ojibwa of Lake Huron, and Moravian Ojibwa, the total Indigenous gift to the relief fund was £165, or $17,978 in today's Canadian currency. Some of these contributions came from Indigenous communities in Quebec.

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Duke Redbird, an elder from the Saugeen Ojibway Nation says his own community donated to the fund.

"They were as generous as they could be even though our people were in a pretty desperate situation themselves," he said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-first-nations-irish-famine-donations-1.7143918