Collection search - Surrender of land by the Ottawa, Chippewa and other Indians - IT 237

GAD Reference number: IT 237
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 94
Aboriginal people(s): "Ottawa, Chippewa and other Indians occupying the said Island";
Aboriginal individual(s): Mai-sho-quong-gai, Okemah-be-ness, J.B. Assiginock, Benjamin Assiginock, Wai-be-nesse-me, Sho-no-tah-guw, George Ah-be-tos-o-wai, Paim-o-quo-waish-qung, Abence, Tai-bose-gai, A-to-nish-cosh, Nai-wau-dai-ge-zhik, Wau-kau-o-sag, Keeshkewaubik;
Other party(ies): Hon. William McDougall, SGIA and William Spragge, DSIA on behalf of the Crown and the Government of the Province of Canada
Type of Document: Surrender of land
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of lands in consideration of a payment of 700 dollars
Land involved: "Great Manitoulin Island" and the islands adjacent to it
Form: Manuscript original

The document is on parchment. Red ink is used for underlining on certification notation on the left edge of page one. There are 16 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and 13 small red wax seals, cracked with pieces missing, situated on top of 13 pieces of pinkish ribbon (which are visible on page 6). There is also a single large red wax seal on pink ribbon situation on a odd shaped piece of parchment folded into an odd triangular shape, probably used to cover the top left corner of the sheets and bind them together.

Sheet one is yellowed. Others sheets also have scattered areas of yellowing. There are scattered ink spots and smears.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 235-238.

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

IT 238 - Copy of Order in Council