Assembly House - Henry Pahtahquahong Chase, 1876

On 12th March 1876, the prominent Mississauga Ojibwe preacher Henry Pahtahquahong Chase gave sermons at three parish churches in Norwich, culminating at Christ Church in Eaton. His sermons and the lectures which followed on the 13th at the Noverre Rooms in Assembly House addressed the living conditions of the Native communities near Muncey, in Ontario, Canada, for which he served as priest, and sought to raise money for a schoolhouse.

You can learn more about Chase's life and his experiences during his later 1885 visit to Britain by reading the letters he wrote to his daughter: http://www.huronresearch.ca/confrontingcolonialism/working-with-primary-sources/157-2/

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