Collection search - Surrender of certain lndian Lands at Thessalon River - IT 231

GAD Reference number: IT 231;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 91C
Aboriginal people(s): Thessalon River Band;
Aboriginal individual(s): Ahyakwahkwahmig, Kezhegut and Ahzhahwegezhig and others;
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Surrender of certain lndian Lands at Thessalon River"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of reserve land to be sold on six conditions including annual payment of interest, land allotments, compensation for improvements etc. - See document
Land involved: "The whole of the land reserved for US [Thessalon River Band] under the Treaty of 1850"
Form: Manuscript "true copy"

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

The document is laminated with tissue. There are short cracks in the lamination along the centre fold lines, as well as small holes along the fold lines. There are also random ink smears.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 231-232.

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

IT 229 - Copy of Order in Council