Editing Guelph (section)

===Before European settlement===
First Nations peoples inhabited present-day Guelph as early as 11,000 years ago.<ref name="thecanadianencyclopedia.ca">{{Cite web|title=Guelph {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/guelph|access-date=June 8, 2021|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}</ref> Before colonization, the area was considered by the surrounding [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous]] communities to be a "neutral" zone and was inhabited by the [[Neutral Nation]]. According to the [[University of Guelph]], "the area was home to a [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] community called the Attawandaron who lived in longhouses surrounded by fields of corn".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4910274-guelph-honours-attawandaron-aboriginal-territory-at-university-community-events/ |title=Guelph honours Attawandaron Aboriginal territory at university, community events |first=May |last=Warren |date=October 14, 2014 |publisher=Guelph Mercury |access-date=July 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064800/https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4910274-guelph-honours-attawandaron-aboriginal-territory-at-university-community-events/ |archive-date=March 26, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The majority of this nation, about 4,000 people, lived in a village near what is now the Badenoch area of [[Puslinch, Ontario|Puslinch]], near Morriston.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archaeologymuseum.ca/the-attawandaron-discoveries/ |title=The Attawandaron Discoveries |publisher=Museum of Ontario Archaeology |date=June 10, 2016 |access-date=July 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430180009/http://archaeologymuseum.ca/the-attawandaron-discoveries/ |archive-date=April 30, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1784, the [[The Crown|British Crown]] purchased a tract of land, that included present-day Guelph, from the [[Mississauga people]] for approximately £1,180.<ref name="thecanadianencyclopedia.ca"/>