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Surrender of the Saugeen Peninsula - IT 178

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Date:

13 October 1854

Reference:

RG10, Volume number: 1845/IT178, Microfilm reel number: T-9939

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Subset of Collections and Fonds:

Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements

Item ID number:

3964695

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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development fonds

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Treaties, surrenders and agreements

Treaties and surrenders

Surrender of the Saugeen Peninsula - IT 178
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Date(s):

13 October 1854

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Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 sheet folded in half (2 leaves) : handwritten manuscript with appended seals and totems ; each leaf 19 x 32 cm (7-1/2" x 12-1/2").

Language of material:

English

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Signed by Laurence Oliphant, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, and members of the Owen Sound, Saugeen and Colpoys Bay (Chippewa) First Nations.

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General note:

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GAD Reference number: IT 178.
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 72.
Aboriginal people(s): Owen Sound Indians, Saugeen Indians, Colpoys Bay Indians [Chippewa Indians].
Aboriginal individual(s): John Kaduhgekwun and others.
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria, "our Great Mother across the Big Lake" and L. Oliphant, SGIA for the Governor General.
Type of document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Surrender of the Saugeen Penninsula."
Specific purpose(s): A surrender of land, with several reservations described for certain Indians in perpetuity and the interest from "the principal sum arising out of the sale of our lands be regularly paid ... at half yearly periods."
Land involved: "Saugeen Penninsula" bounded on three sides by Georgian Bay and Lake Huron and the south side by a "line drawn from the Indian village of Saugeen to the Indian village of Nawash in continuation of the northern limit of the narrow strip recently surrendered by us to the Crown".
Form: Original manuscript.

Physical description note:

The document has eight doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and 14 covered seals.

Note on the state of conservation:

The document is laminated with tissue. There are ink smears. The top right corner as well as other pieces of the document are missing.

Citation/reference note:

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 195-196

Availability of other formats note:

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

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Betwixt & Between: An Untold Tom Thomson Story. Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Owen Sound, Ontario; 2017.05.20-2017.09.10.

Related material:

IT 179 - Order in Council of 3 February 1855, IT 180 - Order in Council of 27 September 1855

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T-9939 : Copies sur microfilm (vols. 1840-1853B) Copy No. 1
T-9939 : Copies sur microfilm (vols. 1840-1853B) Copy No. 2
T-9939 : Microfilmed copies (vols. 1840-1853B) Copy No. 3
T-9939 : Copies sur microfilm (vols. 1840-1853B) Copy No. 4
T-9939 : Microfilmed copies (vols. 1840-1853B) Copy No. 5

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Government

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RG10
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Volume [RG10] 1845/IT178

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Microfilm reel [RG10] T-9939

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Credit: Library and Archives of Canada
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Copyright: Expired

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