Collection search - Plan of the Toronto Purchase - IT 039

GAD Reference number: IT 039;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 13
Aboriginal people(s): [Mississague Nation of Indians];
Aboriginal individual(s): Chechalk and others;
Other party(ies): W. Claus, D.S.G. on behalf of the Crown
Type of Document: Map; docket title: "The descriptive plan of the Toronto purchase made 23 September 1787 and completed on the 1st day of August 1805".
Specific purpose(s): Illustrates the "Toronto Purchase"
Land involved: fronting on Lake Ontario east of River Etobicoke
Form: Manuscript original

Title supplied from contents.

The map is coloured with pink and blue. There are also eight doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures on the verso.

The document is laminated with tissue. There is a stain on the lower right side. The bottom and right edges are very torn. Pieces are also missing and dirty.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 32-35.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.

No date (probably accompanies surrender of August 1, 1805).

Exhibition title: From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic: Landscape Painting in the Americas, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; 2015.06.20 - 2015.09.07.

IT 038 - surrender of 1 August 1805, IT 040 - copy of surrender of 23 September 1787