paper, ink, wax

Copy of a report of the Committee of the Honourable the Executive Council requesting the Gov. Generals acceptance of a surrender of reserve land by the Colpoy's Bay Band of Indians. The committee thus advised that the surrender be accepted and enrolled in the usual manner.

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: 234.

28 August 1861, Order in Council Regarding Colpoy's Bay Band Land Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 235, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3220, 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).