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Description of Land Sold:

The Chippewa Chiefs of the River Thames have laid before the Governor General for his consideration the following proposal: a grant of a portion of their reserve land to the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, for the purpose of building an Industrial School for the benefit of supporting tribes. The land to be granted by lease or license of occuptaion is described as follows: commencing on the east side of Colborne Road of Westbrook's Hill at a post planted at the distance of one chain and seventy-five links on a course south five degrees and forty minutes west from the top of the said Westbrook Hill; then south five degrees and forty minutes west forty-five chains ninety-seven and a half links, to the within distance of forty-five links from the edge of a ravine on the east side of the said Colborne Road; then south eighty-four degrees and twenty minutes east thirty-five chains and eighty-four links, to the top of the bank of the River Thames; then south ten degrees west three chains; the north eight degrees east eleven chains fifty links; then north twenty-five degrees east thirteen chains seventy links; then north eight degrees and forty-five minutes east eight chains; then north seventeen degrees thirty minutes west eleven chains; then north twenty-nine degrees west four chains and twenty-three links; then north forty-three degrees west six chains forty-nine links; then north eighty-one degrees west seven chains twenty links; then south sixty-eight degrees west six chains, to the north-east angle of the ground set off for the Industrial School; then south twenty-two degrees east four chains forty-four links and a half; then south sixty-eight degrees west nine chains; then north twenty-two degrees west four chains forty-four and a half links, to the north-west angle of the said ground set off for the said school; then north eighty-four degrees thirty minutes west seven chains seventy-nine links, to the place of beginning; containing 177 and 1/2 acres. Again commencing at a post planted on the west side of the said Colborne Road at the distance of two chains and seventy-five links from the top of said Westbrook's Hill, measured on the east side of the said Colborne Road; then north eighty-four degrees and forty minutes west twenty-two chains and fifty links; then south eighty-four degrees and twenty minutes east ten chains; then north five degrees and forty minutes east twenty-two chains and fifty links, to the place of beginning; containing 22 and 1/2 acres, and which said two hundred acres of land adjoins the plot of ground appointed for the Industrial School. It is proposed that they land will be advanced to benefit Indian children by the influence of a model farm cultivated under the superintendence of those placed in charge of the institution.

Witnesses:

J.B. Clench, Supt. of Indn. Affairs

Robert F. Keays, I.D.

Peter Jones, Wesleyan Missionary

Henry C. Hogg, Schoolmaster

First Nations Signatories:

John Riley

Miskokomon

James Muskununjie

Chicken Muskununjie

John Tummago

Joseph Canotung

Eyawbanse

Captain Thomas

John Mundiway

Crown Signatories:

J.B. Clench, V.S.I.A.

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 144-145.

13 February 1849, Surrender of 200 Acres in Caradoc Township, Middlesex, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1844, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT144, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2932, accessed [date]).

This record was created under the direction of Heidi Bohaker as part of a larger research project funded by an Aboriginal Research Grant titled ““Braiding Knowledges: Anishinaabe Heritage in Community Perspective”from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).