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Description of Report:

The Superintendent General of Indian Affairs has submitted some proposed changes to the Saugeen Reserve and Cape Crocker Reserve.

1. The Saugeen Reserve should be bounded by the Indian path called the Copway Road, which takes a north-westerly direction as shown by a red line in the plan. Change will give Saugeen Indians a small increase of frontage on Lake Huron, and would not interfere with the town plot.

2. The Cape Crocker Reserve now formed by a line drawn from the bottom of Nochemowenaing Bay to the mouth of Sucker River, start instead from the south shore of Hope Bay, at a small point about a mile from its head, and strike Lake Huron two miles south of Sucker River. This change was meant to cut off from the Indians one mile of frontage on Hope Bay, giving them in compensation two miles extra frontage on the Georgian Bay. The head of Hope Bay was recommended by Mr. Dennis, the surveyor of the tract, as the site for a town, and the position of the south-western boundary of the reserve would render it impossible to carry out this suggestion.

The committee recommended that the changes be effected.

Witnesses:

Wm. H. Lee

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 196.

27 September 1855, Order in Council Regarding Saugeen Peninsula Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT180, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3314, 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).