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Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of 522 pounds 10 shillings province currency in goods at the Montreal price to be paid yearly by His Majesty to the Mississauga Nation, the Indians agree to surrender the following 648,000 acres of land:

A tract of land in the Home District called the Mississauga Tract, bounded southerly by the purchase made in 1806; on the east by the Townships of Etobicoke, Vaughan, and King; on the south-west by the Indian purchase, extending from the outlet at Burlington Bay, north forty-five degrees west fifty miles, and from thence north seventy-four degrees east or thereabout to the north-west angle of the Township of King.

Witnesses:

J. Givins, Superintendent of Indian Affairs

Wm. Hands Jr., Clerk, Indian Department

Wm. Gruet, Interpreter, Indian Department

Crown Signatories:

W. Claus, D.S.G. on behalf of the Crown

First Nation’s Signatories:

Adjutant

Weggishgomin

Cabibonike

Pagitaiquatoibe

Kawahkitahaquibe

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 47-48.

28 October 1818, Credit River Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT060, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3288, 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).