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On a communication from the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, transmitting a deed of surrender from Chief Tootomenie, of the Tribe of Indians residing at Gros Cap, on Lake Superior to her Majesty Queen Victoria. This deed has been laid before the Governor General for the purpose of the deed being accepted and entered into the records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the Provincial Registrar.

The Committee recommended that the deed be accepted and entered in the records.

Crown Signatories:

William 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: 200.

10 September 1855, Order in Council Regarding Gros Cap Land Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 184, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3167, 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).