Collection search - Surrender of certain Indian Lands at Batchewannanny Bay and Gourlais Bay - IT 228

GAD Reference number: IT 228;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 91A
Aboriginal people(s): Batchewannanny and Gourlais Bay Bands of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Joseph Nabahnagoojing, Chief of Sault Ste. Marie and Gourlais Bay and Mazhukeynosh, Chief of Batchewan, and others;
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Surrender of certain Indian Lands at Batchewannanny Bay and Gourlais Bay"
Specific purpose(s): A surrender of reserve lands to be sold on 7 conditions which included the retention of islands at Sault Ste. Marie, annual payment of interest, land division and compensation, etc. - See document
Land involved: The reserve land "extending from Wanabekinegunning West of Gros Cap to the boundary of the lands ceded by the Chiefs of Lake Superior and inland ten miles throughout the whole distance including Batchewananny Bay"
Form: Manuscript "true copy"

The document has 11 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures, reproduced by a copyist.

The document is laminated with tissue. The edge is torn, dirty, and pieces are missing, especially along fold lines. There is an ink smear by docket title. Two small holes are in the top left corner of page three, probably used to bind the Order in Council to this document.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 227-228.

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

IT 229 - Copy of Order in Council