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Description of Surrendered Timber:

The Chiefs and Principal Men belonging to the Sarnia Band, decided by vote to surrender to the Indian Department, some merchantable oak and pine timber standing on unoccupied portions of their reserve in the Township of Sarnia and also on the reserve in the Township of Bosanquet. The Indians were to receive the interest amounting from the sale of the wood.

Crown Signatories:

Froome Talfourd, V.S.I.D.

First Nations Signatories:

David B. Wawanosh, Head Chief

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 241.

6 November 1862, Timber Surrender Sarnia Township Lambton County, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1846, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 246, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3228, 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).