Recherche dans la collection - The Chippewa Indians of the Thames propose that 200 acres of their Land be set apart for the model farm in connection with the Industrial School - IT 144

Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa;
Aboriginal individual(s): John Riley and others;
Other party(ies): Governor General
Type of Document: Provisional surrender of land - Docket title: "The Chippewa Indians of the Thames propose that 200 acres of their Land be set apart for the model farm in connection with the Industrial School"
Specific purpose(s): A proposal to grant by lease or license of occupation to the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society two parcels of land in conjunction with the Industrial School
Land involved: 177-1/2 acres in one parcel and 22-1/2 acres in a second parcel adjoining the land for the industrial school in the Township of Carradoc, London District -See document
Form: Manuscript original

The document has eight doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and nine covered seals. A single pink ribbon holds the sheets together. Sheet three has a decorative cut to edge which folds over left edge of page one.

The document is laminated with tissue. The edges are worn, torn, and dirty.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 144-145.

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

GAD Reference number: IT 144;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 58-1/2 c

IT 143 - surrender for school, IT 145 - proposal for parsonage, IT 146 - surrender for burying ground, etc.