Excerpt from The Agricultural Gazette of Canada, Vol. 9: March-April, 1922
As suggested, the corn crop is one that has long been cultivated in this country as proof, Columbus in his report to Isabella. Queen of Spain, after his first voyage of discovery in 1498, stated that he had seen growing on ’this continent fields of corn eighteen miles long. Cartier, a few years later, in 1535, describes the Indian Village of Hochelaga (where Montreal now stands) as being surrounded by (large fields of growing corn at the time of his Visit. In 1685 the English, in connection With one of their wars with the ‘seneca Indians, claimed to have destroyed about acres of corn in what is now the ?state of New York, and Frontenac in 1690 spent several days destroying corn in the same State in connection with his trouble with the Onondaga Indians. Other early explorers fin lthe western parts of the United States and Canada, such as De Soto and Lasalle, make mention of large fields of corn. Thus, we have ample proof that corn was the great staple of the Indians long before the white man reached the shores of this continent.
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