The Story of Peacock Point
Approximately 1km south of the Hobbitstee Nature Refuge is a lovely natural promontory jutting into Lake Erie, known as Peacock Point. Situated in Walpole Township (Haldimand County, ON), Peacock Point consists of a small community, classified by Haldimand County as a “Resort Residential Node”. The Peacock Point Cottage Owners Association, created in 1983, works collaboratively to maintain Peacock Park and its joyful summer social events, the shoreline water break, and a seasonally-operated water service, store, and community hall. In the 1600’s, the area around the point, richly forested with cedar and pine trees (as described in later land petitions), was inhabited by the Chonnonton First Nation (also known as the Neutral Confederacy) (Noble, 2016) (Ellis, 1961). The name Chonnonton is translated as “the people who tend or manage deer” (Noble, 2016). In the early 1650’s, the Chonnonton were driven out of the region by the Iroquois Confederacy, famine, and disease, which result