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About Alderville First Nation
Alderville First Nation is a Mississauga Anishinabeg (Michi Saagiig) community on the south side of Rice Lake, Ontario, whose people are the traditional people of the north shore of Lake Ontario and its tributaries.
Alderville First Nation, formerly known as the Mississaugas of Alnwick, is home to the Mississauga Anishinabeg (Michi Saagiig) of the Ojibway Nation. The community sits on the south side of Rice Lake, about 30 km north of Cobourg. Its people see themselves as the traditional people of the north shore of Lake Ontario and its tributaries.
The people first lived around the Bay of Quinte (Grape Island). Loyalist settlement after the American Revolution forced them to leave, and Alderville was founded in 1837. Alderville is one of the seven Williams Treaties First Nations. The 1923 treaty was signed and sealed at Alderville on November 19, 1923.
People no longer make their living by hunting, trapping, fishing and gathering rice, but these practices are still an important part of community life. Visitors know Alderville for its native crafts, the Black Oak Savanna, the annual pow-wow and drum socials. In 2025, Chief and Council passed a Rights of Rice Lake resolution, which they described as part of mino bimaadiziwin, a way of living life in a positive way.
Community services include:
- Health and Social Services
- Education and the library
- Daycare
- Lands and Resources
- Traditional Medicine Clinic and Community Care Program
Learn more at the Alderville First Nation website.
- People
- Mississauga Anishinabeg (Michi Saagiig)
- Treaty
- Williams Treaties (1923)
- Tribal council
- Ogemawahj Tribal Council
- Headquarters
- Alderville
- Band number
- 160
- Population
- 1,162
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