Beaverstone River
Throughout the Great Lakes region, the Anishnaabe harvested great quantities of fish. Much of the catch was consumed directly, or cured for future use. Some Anishnaabe traded fish for other products with their Anishnaabe neighbors. For example, the Nipissing exchanged dried fish with the Huron for supplies of corn and other items, such as tobacco. This trading activitiy was noted by many of the early Europeans, and was based on a long-standing and geographically extensive Anishnaabe trading network.
The residents of Point Grondine, Shebahonaning (Killarney), Beaverstone and Collins Inlet were adept farmers as well as industrius lumbermen, and fishermen. The Indian Affairs report that:
"The officers of the Department, and myself among the number, in official visits to the Indian settlements, inculcate a greater attention to agriculture . . . We have seen among the white population, people too lazy to work their farms themselves, and when they did farm their lands themselves, cultivate them so unskillfully as often to have but half-crops".
Beaverstone River
Beaverstone village was located on the bluff.
Chief Oneweigonce and his band were located at Grumbling Point (Point Grondine) near the eastern entrance to Collins Inlet, including Beaverstone River in the early 1870's. The band live principally by hunting, fishing, farming, maple sugaring, berry picking and work at the saw-mill in Collins Inlet.
Chief Oneweigonce's band live in log houses, have barns, gardens, horse stables. Crops which the band harvested include 18 bushels of corn, 140 bushels of potatoes and six bushels of beans. They are the owners of boats, canoes and thirty four nets. Reverend Frost indicated in Five Years of Church Work among Ojibway Indians and Lumbermen, that:
"The houses at Beaverstone are rather better than the general run of cabins, some indeed being quite superior."
nails or spikes in places and some of the cedar logs are approximately
24 feet long and expertly hewn.
Archaeological and Historical Survey of Point Grondine