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ENTRY YEAR MONTH DAY NO. FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING OTHERSURRENDERER LOCATIONNAME COUNTY INDEXTEXT PAGE VOLUME
300 1872 1 17 165 CHIPPEWA/OJIBBEWA CHINGUACOUSE TOWN ALGOMA DISTRICT LOT IN CHINGUACOUSE TOWN PLOT, GARDEN RIVER, ALGOMA DISTRICT. TO BE SOLD TO MCRAE, CRAIG & CO., FOR A SAW-MILL. 63 II
306 1874 9 15 165 CHIPPEWA/OJIBBEWA MANITOBA; ASSINIBOIA; SASKATCHEWAN DISTRICTS TREATY NO. 4. PARTS OF MANITOBA AND ASSINIBOIA AND SASKATCHEWAN DISTRICTS. TO LT. GOV. MORRIS 316 I
539 1872 4 17 165 CHIPPEWA GARDEN RIVER ALGOMA DISTRICT BY CHIPPEWA INDIANS. LOT IN CHINGUACOUSE TOWN PLOT. TO BE SOLD TO MCRAE, CRAIG & COMPANY FOR A STEAM SAWMIL 63 I
730 1872 4 17 165 CHIPPEWA GARDEN RIVER ALGOMA DISTRICT (MCCRAE, CRAIG & COMPANY)--BY CHIPPEWA INDIANS. LOT IN CHINGUACOUSE TOWN PLOT, GARDEN RIVER, ALGOMA DISTRICT. FOR A STEAM SAW-MILL 63 II
1159 1872 4 17 165 CHIPPEWA SHINGUICOUSE, SHINGUACOUSE OR CHINGUACOUSE TOWN PLOT ALGOMA DISTRICT BY CHIPPEWA INDIANS. A BLOCK OF LAND. TO BE SOLD TO MCCRAE, CRAIG & COMPANY, FOR STEAM SAW-MILL 63 II

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Date: 1872/01/17

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No. 165.

Know all Men by These Presents, that we, the Chief and Principal Men of the Band of Indians owning the Indian Reserve lands at Garden River, in the Province of Ontario, being this day assembled in council, have agreed to surrender and yield to Her Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and successors forever, all the right, claim and title which we possess of, in and to a block of land in the Town street to the water edge, and bounded west by Ryan street, as laid down on the plan attached hereto, with the object of the block of land in question being sold to Messrs. McRae, Craig & Company, for the purpose of erecting a steam saw-mill thereon, the proceeds of such sale to be invested for the benefit of the Garden River Indians.

In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Garden River this seventeenth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two:

Chief Augustin, [L.S.]

Joseph Lasage, [L.S.]

James Boisinault, [L.S.]

Thos. Boisinault, [L.S.]

Peter Jones, [L.S.]

George Augustin, [L.S.]

Pen Lasage, [L.S.]

Thomas Augustin, [L.S.]

Charles Larose, [L.S.]

Jarvis Augustin, [L.S.]

Peter Ben, [L.S.]

James Shingase, [L.S.]

John Cabosa, [L.S.]

Moses Botanash, [L.S.]

Wey-a-mah, [L.S.]

Dayson, [L.S.]

John Mukatokinna, [L.S.]

Jahquchewossoi, [L.S.]

William Drim, [L.S.]

Louis Stringcoack, [L.S.]

Frank Ninnitojon, [L.S.]

Witness to marks:

Jos. Wilson, Ind. Commr.

Province of Ontario, District of Algoma. To Wit. We, the undersigned do hereby certify that the above surrender of lands was freely assented to at a council assembly for the purpose at Garden River, on the seventeenth day of April, 1872, by a majority of Chiefs and Principal Men of the Band entitled to vote thereat.

Jos. Wilson, Indian Commr. Augustin Chief.

Sworn before me at Sault Ste. Marie, in the District of Algoma, this seventeenth day of April, A.D., 1872. And I certify that the deponent Augustin could not speak English, and I swore Etienne Jollineau, of Sault Ste. Marie, to interpret the above affidavit to the said Augustin, that the same was read over to him and interpreted to him by the said Etienne Jollineau and the said deponent seemed to me to perfectly understand the same, and made his mark thereto in my presence.

Walter McRea, Judge of the District of Algoma.

  1. Canada Department of Indian Affairs. Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson printer to the King’s most excellent majesty, 1905.