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A copy of a Report of a Committee of the Executive Council in which the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs submitting three deeds of surrender for the consideration of the Gov. General. The three surrenders include Indian reserves on Lake Superior and Lake Huron (Batchewananny and Gourlais Bay, Garden River, and Thessalon River). The Superintendent states that the terms of all treaties are similar. The Batchewananny Bay Indians request that they may receive $80 for a yoke of oxen and implements to commence their farms on the Garden River Reserve. The Committee then recommends that they surrenders be accepted.

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: 228-229.

22 July 1859, Order in Council Regarding Lake Superior Treaties, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 229, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3204, 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).