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Description of Land Sold:

The Chiefs of the Chippewa Tribe of Indians residing at Port Sarnia, in Western Canada, surrender to Her Majesty Queen Victoria a certain parcel of land described below, measuring 80 acres. The land is to be sold by the Crown for the benefit of the Indian tribe. The land up for surrender is situated at the north-west extremity of their reserve, on the River St. Clair, adjoining the said town plot of Port Sarnia, being composed of the two lots now in the occupation of the Chiefs Salt and David Wawanosh, and being butted and bounded as follows on the west by the River St. Clair, on the north by the present town plot of Port Sarnia, on the east by a line produced by a continuation of the rear or easterly boundary of the present town plot of Sarnia, and on the south by the possessions of Joshua Wawanosh. The tribe requests that Her Majesty divide the land into town lots, and sell them to the best advantage for the benefit of the said Chippewa Indians and their posterity.

Witnesses:

S.Y. Chesley

Michael Turner

First Nations Signatories:

Joshua Wawanosh

David Wawanosh

Crown Signatories:

Henry P. Chase, Interpreter, Indian Department

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 176-177.

28 July 1852, Surrender of Eighty Acres in Sarnia Township Lambton County, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT167, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3102, 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).