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ENTRY | YEAR | MONTH | DAY | NO. | FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING | OTHERSURRENDERER | LOCATIONNAME | COUNTY | INDEXTEXT | PAGE | VOLUME |
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1482 | 1891 | 9 | 7 | 298 | CHIPPEWA | RAMA TOWNSHIP | ONTARIO COUNTY | BY CHIPPEWA BAND. EAST PARTS OF LOTS 26 AND 27 (45 ACRES), FRONT RANGE, ALSO RIGHT OF WAY ALONG LOT 27 | 33 | ||
1595 | 1891 | 9 | 7 | 298 | CHIPPEWAS OF RAMA TOWNSHIP | EAST PARTS OF LOTS 26 AND 27, FRONT RANGE (45 ACRES), ALSO RIGHT OF WAY ALONG LOT 27 | 33 | ||||
1751 | 1891 | 9 | 7 | 298 | CHIPPEWAS OF RAMA | RAMA TOWNSHIP | ONTARIO COUNTY | (NORTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY) BY CHIPPEWAS OF RAMA. RIGHT OF WAY ALONG LOT 27, FRONT RANGE, RAMA TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO COUNTY, ONT | 33 |
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No. 298
Know all Men By These Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Chippewas of Rama resident on our Reserve in the Township of Rama, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Township of Rama, in the County of Ontario and Province of Ontario, containing by admeasurement Forty-five acres be the same more or less and being composed of the East parts of lots numbers Twenty six and Twenty seven in the Front Range of the Township of Rama aforesaid being the land situate between the Railway and Lake St. John. ALSO a right of way Two rods wide, along the North side of said lot number Twenty Seven—COMMENCING at the Northern and North Western Railroad and running in a Westerly direction along the Northern boundary of said lot to the Rama Road.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to sell the same to such person or persons, and upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conducive to our welfare and that of our people.
AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the sale thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to Our credit and the interest thereon paid to us and Our descendants.
AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said The Chippewas of Rama do, on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done, in connection with the disposal of the said parcels of land.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this Seventh day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Ninety One.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the presence of
D. J. McPhee,
Indian Agent.
J. B. Nanigishkung [L.S.]
Gilbert Williams [L.S.]
Sampson Ingersoll [L.S.]
James B. Nanigishkung [L.S.]
John Kenice [L.S.]
W. M. Beatty [L.S.]
James Ingersol [L.S.]
John Williams [L.S.]
Michael St. Germain [L.S.]
Joseph Kenice [L.S.]
J. B. Stinson
Samson George
John Bigwind
Alder Shilling
Ed. Yellowhead
Joseph Yellowhead
John Wesley
Joseph Swyer
Frank Joe.
DOMINION OF CANADA,
Province of Ontario
County of Ontario
To Wit:
Personally appeared before me, Duncan Joshua McPhee, of the Village of Atherley in the Province of Ontario, and Joseph B. Nanigishkung Chief of the said Band of Indians.
AND the said Duncan Joshua McPhee for himself saith:—
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the Chippewas of Rama of the full age of twenty-one years then present.
That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned for that purpose and according to their rules.
That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.
That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.
And the said Joseph B. Nanigishkung says:
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years then present.
That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians summoned for that purpose, according to their rules, and held in the presence of the said Duncan Joshua McPhee.
That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.
That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said meeting or council.
Sworn before me by the said Deponents Duncan Joshua McPhee and Joseph B. Nanigishkung at the Township of Mara in the County of Ontario this 12th day of September A.D. 1891.
Geo. H. Dartnell,
Judge of the County Court
County of Ontario.
Recorded 10th October 1891.
Lib: 135, Fol: 322.
L. A. Catellier
Dep: Registrar General of Canada
- ↑ Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.