Peter Jones and Egerton Ryerson met the
Lake Simcoe Ojibwa on the 23rd of July, 1826. Chief Snake was willing to
convert and encouraged his people to as well. A second meeting
happened a year later, and thirty-eight Lake Simcoe Indians were baptized.
More camp meetings were held, and soon over a hundred people were
followers of the Methodists. A key incentive to converting was the
ability to attend a mission school. (Mabindisa. 64-68)
Henry B. Steinhauer was converted during
a mass baptism conducted by William Case and Peter Jones on June 17,
1828.