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The Committee of the Executive Council received a report dated 16th July 1859 regarding the unconditional surrender of land by the Chippewa Indians at Fort William. The report requests that the treaty be accepted. Therefore, the committee recommended that the surrender be accepted and that it be enrolled in the usual manner in the offices of the Provincial Registrar and Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Signatories:

Wm. H. Lee, C.E.C.

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 233.

20 July 1859, Order in Council Regarding Neebing Township Land Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 233, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3218, 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).