Collection search - Plan of the Tract of Land purchased from the Mississague Indians in 1806 - IT 075

GAD Reference number: IT 075;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 23
Aboriginal people(s): Mississague Indians
Type of Document: Map; Title: "Plan of the Tract of Land purchased from the Mississague Indians in 1806"; Surveyor General: Thos. Ridout; Scale: 160 chains to an inch.
Specific purpose(s): To illustrate lands purchased in 1806 from the Mississague Indians
Land involved: Parcel fronting on the north shore of Lake Ontario, west of the mouth of the River Etobicoke
Form: Manuscript copy

The plan has red, brown, and possibly blue colouring.

The plan has been conserved and is laminated with tissue. Pieces are missing along the edges, upper left corner and central area. There are also red spots near bottom edge.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 53-54.

Scale: 1:126 720 (160 chains to an inch).

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.

Original date: 1820/01/22, copied from map dated 1819/12/08.

IT 071 - original surrender, IT 072 - duplicate surrender, IT 073 - contemporary copy of surrender, IT 074 - abbreviated copy of surrender