Christian Island Ontario Canada
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The Iroquois attack causes the Huron to enter a state of terror.
In their panic, the Huron have by May 1st, 1649, burned fifteen of their villages and fled as refugees to surrounding tribes, with about ten thousand fleeing to Gahoendoe Island. (The Jesuits call the island St. Joseph Island; the occupation of the island by the fleeing Hurons and Jesuits is where the name "Christian" Island comes from, named in honor of the Canadian Martyrs.)
Most of the Huron who have fled to Gahoendoe Island starve over the bitter winter of 1649-50, as it is a non-productive settlement and cannot provide for them; most of those who survive are believed to have resorted to cannibalism.
The Jesuits and most of the Huron refugees leave the island in the summer of 1650 and travel to Quebec, ...
The remaining Huron, along with the surviving remnants of the Petun, an Iroquoian group living at the base of the Niagara Escarpment near present-day Collingwood, leave the island in 1651.
The Petun had suffered serious losses in Iroquois raids in late 1649 and 1650.
Their descendants will eventually settle in the Detroit-Windsor area.