As a missionary settlement, Kahnawake was at risk of being attacked by nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

In the early 17th century, some mixed Iroquois ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) migrated from present-day New York to Kahnawake, a Catholic mission village established south of Montreal by French Jesuits.

The majority of the residents in the four western towns were closely related to the Iroquois of the Six Nations — mostly Mohawk ( Kanesetake, Kahnawake, and Akwesasne ) or Onondaga ( Oswegatchie ).

" The Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake offered support and flags of the Iroquois Confederacy to fly on the Farley Mowat and the Robert Hunter.

The first county seat was established at the town of Iroquois in 1837, though no official buildings were constructed there and offices were rented.

Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

* 1689 – 1, 500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.

* 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

* 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

* 1608 – At Ticonderoga ( now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs.

* 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

In a map drawn in the Relation des Jésuites ( 1662 – 1663 ), the lake bears the legend " Lac Ontario ou des Iroquois " with the name " Ondiara " in smaller type.

* December 30 – Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago kills 600.

* July 30 – At what is now Crown Point, New York, Samuel de Champlain participates in a battle between the Huron and Iroquois, shooting and killing two Iroquois chiefs ; this helps set the tone for French – Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.

* July 13 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy ( b. 1696 )

* August 5 – A force of 1, 500 Iroquois attacks the village of Lachine, in New France.

* August 4 – The Great Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France and its Huron and Algonquian allies.

* November 2 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy ( d. 1760 )

The native people of this area were next recorded during the Iroquois Wars ( 1641 – 1701 ) as being Potawatomi and Miami.

* Allegany Reservation – A reservation of the Iroquois is partially in the western section of the town.

* Allegany Reservation – A reservation of the Iroquois that is within part of the town.

* Allegany Reservation – A reservation of the Iroquois that forms part of the east border of the town, along the reservoir.

* Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge – A federal refuge is partly in the northern part of the town.

* Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge – Part of the refuge is in Shelby.

* West Shelby – In the southwest corner of the town by the Iroquois Refuge.

Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837.

* The Aftermath of the Rebellions — The Rebellions of 1837 – 1838: the most dramatic political event in Canadian history

Following the Rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham in his Durham Report, recommended that Upper Canada and Lower Canada should be joined to form the Province of Canada and that the new province should have a responsible government.

The Rebellions of 1837 were ongoing and London realized that the proposed Halifax service was also important for the military.

It can still be used to describe historical events in Canada, such as the Rebellions of 1837, Western Alienation, Quebec sovereignty movement, and any Aboriginal conflicts in Canada, but is more relevant to current events such as the Caledonia conflict with Natives and the increasing hostility between conservative and liberal Canadians.

After the severe consequences of the Rebellions of 1837 against the British authorities, he advocated political reforms within the new Union regime of 1841.

Together with the simultaneous Upper Canada Rebellion in the neighbouring colony of Upper Canada ( now Ontario ), it formed the Rebellions of 1837.

Redcoats and Patriotes: The Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837 – 38, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 218 p. ( ISBN 0920002285 )

A Particular Duty: The Canadian Rebellions 1837 – 1839, Salisbury ( Wiltshire ): Michael Russel Publishing, 211 p.

In May, he launched a new newspaper, Mackenzie's Gazette, which was initially successful because the Rebellions of 1837 had created American interest in Canadian affairs.

It is in these ways that the Upper Canada Rebellion and Lower Canada Rebellion, together, can be considered as the Rebellions of 1837.

* The 1837 Rebellions

However, his brief tenure was remembered as a period of calm before the coming storm ( see Rebellions of 1837 ).

The Family Compact emerged from the War of 1812 and collapsed in the aftermath of the Rebellions of 1837.

The Rebellions of 1837 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower and Upper Canada in 1837 and 1838.

* Chart of British Regiments serving in the Canadian Rebellions of 1837 – 1838

In 1849 the Baldwin-Lafontaine government passed the Rebellion Losses Bill, compensating French Canadians for losses suffered during the Rebellions of 1837.

He served as captain of the 1st Regiment of the Stormont Militia during the Rebellions of 1837.

Once responsible government was granted in response to the 1837 Rebellions, the Tories emerged as moderate reformers who opposed the radical policies of the Reformers and then the Clear Grits.

* Rebellions of 1837

In the aftermath of the Rebellions of 1837, he went to Canada in 1838 with Lord Durham as private secretary, and served in the second session of the Special Council of Lower Canada.

It was used as the armed faction of the Constitutional Party and many of its members took part in the Lower Canada Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 on the British side.