- Queen's University Archives
- Algonquins of Golden Lake Claim collection
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- Returns and report on Indians of Lower Canada
Returns and report on Indians of Lower Canada
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- Held by
- Queen's University Archives via Queen's University Archives
- Dates
- 12 Dec 1836 (indexed as 1836)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
- Scope & content
- Returns and Report: lists the various Tribes indicating the Post to which they are attached. Lists children under 14 years of age as well as men and women. Also indicates the various Indians who are considered wanderers listing them by Tribe. Algonquins of Lake of Two Mtns. 298; Nipissings 264. Report divided into 11 sections reporting on the various tribes of Indians in Lower Canada. Section No. 4 deals with the Iroquois, Algonquins and Nipissingues at Lake of Two Mountains. States that they have no land from which they derive revenues and have always depended upon hunting for their principal means of support but their situation is becoming alarming due to the rapid settlement of their hunting grounds (which had been secured under the Proclamation of 1763) on the banks of the Onawa. States this is also due to the indiscriminate destruction by the settlers of the beaver and other animals from which the most valuable furs are obtained. Advises on the quantity of land occupied at Lake of Two Mountains as: Iroquois - 150 acres; Algonquins - 60 acres; and Nipissingues - 50 acres. Under section entitled "Unsettled Indians of Lower Canada" states that the Algonquin, Nipissingue and Iroquois Tribes of the Lake of the Two Mountains are employed principally in hunting and fishing and lead a wandering life for nearly nine months in the year. Of the total unsettled Indians - 1,118, the Algonquins, Nipissingues and Iroquois of Lake of Two Mountains comprise 862.
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- Language
- English
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