Sally Ainse, A Proud Land Owner!

We have to remember our Heritage and those persons who worked EXTREMELY HARD to SHAPE Our Countries into what they are today!


"Oneida Sally" - Trader, Land Owner, Diplomat
Sally Montour Ainse Navigated Lakes Erie and Michigan to Trade

Sally Hance Montour Maxwell Ainse, an Oneida Indian woman from Pennsylvania, became a famous fur trader, store keeper, land owner and diplomat before the United States turned 50 years old. She was born on the Susquehanna River in 1728 before America was a country. She died in 1823 when she was 95 years old, well before the Constitution Act of 1867 transformed Canada into a Dominion

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THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO LEARN ABOUT THIS TRUE ENTREPRENEUR AND HER SUCCESSES, BUT HAVING IT ALL TAKEN AWAY FROM HER WITH THE MCKAY'S PURCHASE, IN ANOTHER ARTICLE YOU CAN LEARN SO MUCH MORE, "Only a few people know of her existence but in the late 1700s, a woman named Sally Ainse carved out a life on the North American frontier. She was a furtrader, a business woman, and a major landowner in what is now southwestern Ontario, and she had links to major figures of her day from George Washington, to John Graves Simcoe and Joseph Brant."

It was the summer of 2009 when I decided to explore the Heritage of this Region. I found all of these plaques on buildings and other forms of monuments, one in particular fastened to a rock on the boulevard in front of the municipal building facing the Thames River, part of the original freeway system.

Here I found a cracked and defaced plaque describing Sally Ainse's part in this area's Heritage.

Needless to say I came back to my computer and began doing my own search of documents, needless to say, the more I found the more interested I became.

I trust you guys do what I did and learn more about this "Entrepreneur"! Absolutely Amazing!

The Indians were behind the 8 ball, did not matter which side they favoured,still lost their land.
Where is Pelee Island and what is there now? The lease may have held seeing the son [Mckee]was given it for 999 years.
Sarah may have been the first female entreprenuer.That would have put a few noses out of joint especially among the stuffy English of the time. McKee wanted to choose his neighbours, he was the [politically correct] non-colour in the woodpile.

In central Tennessee an early French trader married a local indian girl & he opened up a trading post that became very popular. Business boomed & he was soon too busy with more profitable businesses, meantime she turned out to be a very good trader. Lot of men didn't want to trade with a woman & tried to trade with him but he always refered them to her, shaking his head no & saying "She boss!". The site is remembered today only by a long winding road marked "She Boss Road". True story or as true as 250 yr old stories can be.