Collection search - Copy of Surrender by the Chippewas of Sarnia of a parcel of land adjoining Port Sarnia - IT 167

GAD Reference number: IT 167;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 68-1/2
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa Tribe of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chiefs Joshua Wawanosh and David Wawanosh;
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Copy of Surrender by the Chippewas of Sarnia of a parcel of land adjoining Port Sarnia"
Specific purpose(s): A surrender of land to be "laid out into Town Lots and sold to the best advantage for the benefit of the said Chippewa Indians and their posterity"
Land involved: 2 lots on the north-west extremity of their reserve on the St. Clair River adjoining the town of Port Sarnia
Form: Manuscript "true copy"

The document is laminated with tissue. There are ink blot on page four. The fold lines are dirty, torn and bleached.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 176-177.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9939.

IT 166 - Original [?]