Materials

parchment, ink

Description of Writing/Text

Description of Report:

A transmission of a surrender by the Chippewa Indians of the Saugeen Peninsula and Owen Sound, in which they surrendered unto Her Majesty in trust a tract of land located on the north shore of Lake Huron. The Superintendent General of Indian Affairs wishes that the surrender be accepted and entered into the records.

Signatories:

Wm. H. Lee

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 0 mm

Condition: edges torn, worn, and dirty; yellow along fold lines, two holes in top left corner

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Date document signed

Current Location: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Government Archives Division Reference Indian Treaty Number 179

Link to Institution's Collections Database: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Publication History

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 197.

GKS Reference Number: 865

How to Cite this Item

3 February 1855, Saugeen Peninsula Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT179, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3313, accessed [date]).

Record Creation Context

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).