- Queen's University Archives
- Algonquins of Golden Lake Claim collection
- Primary Documents PD187-PD196
- James Hughes, Superintendent, Indian Department to Lt. Colonel Napier, Right Arm and Secretary of Indian Affairs
James Hughes, Superintendent, Indian Department to Lt. Colonel Napier, Right Arm and Secretary of Indian Affairs
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- Dates
- 24 Feb 1834 (indexed as 1834)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
- Scope & content
- Letter: transmitting letter received from Interpreter Ducharme at Lake of Two Mountains Explains how a trapper named Charles Thomas and his four or five sons have 60 steel traps which they used on the hunting grounds of a Nipissing from Lake of Two Mountains named Mac-wa. Advises that Thomas intends to squat on these lands to farm. States that the Indians (the Algonquins and Nipissings) are destitute and it is his duty to represent them. Marginalia to the effect that these hunting grounds are on the banks of a small river called Riviere au Bonne Chaire in the back parts of Petite Nation (Papineau's seigneurie) on north side of Ottawa River 75 miles from Lake of Two Mountains.
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- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T11:46:29Z · source datestamp 2025-07-14T19:18:01Z · ead