- Queen's University Archives
- Algonquins of Golden Lake Claim collection
- Primary Documents PD233-PD246
- Report of a Committee of the Executive Council to Sir John Colborne, Governor General
Report of a Committee of the Executive Council to Sir John Colborne, Governor General
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- Dates
- 17 Jun 1839 (indexed as 1839)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
- Scope & content
- OC: petition of Mr. McNab and Mr. Morson, that 99 year lease granted in the year 1818 by certain Indian Chiefs to Eleazar Gillson and laterally acquired by petitioners, is null and void as Indians have no right to grant leases or dispose of the lands situated within their ancient hunting grounds. Recommends that petitioners may receive some compensation from the rent which may hereafter be received for Kettle Island or from other funds arising from Indian leases on the Ottawa. States that lease recently given by an Officer of the Department of Indian Affairs is equally invalid and suggests that the island should be considered and treated as part of the waste lands of the Crown. Quotes extract of Report of Council dated June 13, 1837 outlining claim of the Iroquois, Algonquins and Nipissingues of the Lake of the Two Mountains to tract on the Ottawa River for some hundreds of miles upwards from seigneurial grant. Concludes that the report indicates that Indians have no right to property at the present day in the lands which they once held as hunting grounds; a point which Col. Hughes overlooked when leasing the islands in the Ottawa River. Recommends that a sufficient tract of land should be set apart in the rear of the present range of townships on the Ottawa River. Referring to the 1837 recommendation of the Council, concludes that the Indian Department should act in accordance with the tenor of that report.
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- Language
- English
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- 2026-10-18T11:46:29Z · source datestamp 2025-07-14T19:18:09Z · ead