- Queen's University Archives
- Algonquins of Golden Lake Claim collection
- Primary Documents PD279-PD301
- Report on the Affairs of the Indians in Canada by the Bagot Commission of Inquiry
Report on the Affairs of the Indians in Canada by the Bagot Commission of Inquiry
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- Dates
- 20 Mar 1845 (indexed as 1845)
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- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
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- Report: James Hughes, Superintendent of Indian Department states that total number of Algonquins, Nipissings and Iroquois number 1,050 [at Lake of Two Mountains] of whom 418 are Algonquins and 318 are Nipissings. States that the Algonquins and Nipissings still hunt and only stay at the village for two months of the year. Informs the Commissioner that they are destitute as a result of their hunting grounds being ruined by the extension of the lumber trade which introduced white settlers holding possession of the land without any authority on the part of the government. Hughes lays their claim before the Commission stating that it gives them a title to the favourable consideration of the Government [pg. 17 Section Ill] "In Lower Canada, where settlement had made considerable progress before the Conquest, and where civilization and Christianity had been introduced among the Indians, their Territorial Possessions had at that time become circumscribed within defmed limits, and in many instances were held by Patents under the French Crown. or individual Seigneurs. Of these reserves, the several Tribes still retain possession, and there is only one section of the country, viz.: on the Ottawa, in which the Indians have been dispossessed of their ancient hunting grounds without compensation." Also report on Mississaugas of Alnwick and Rice, Mud and Balsam Lakes. (Section II pp. 40-41) Appendix of information on Mississaugas of Alnwick and Rice, Mud and Balsam Lakes. (Section ill pp. 183- 185) Evidence of Superintendent Hughes (Appendix 7, pp. 74-77) in response to Query 3 states that the Nipissings and Algonquins lead a wandering life, spending only two months of the year at Lake of Two Mountains. In response to Query 7 Hughes states that the greater part of the Algonquin and Nipissing hunting grounds have been assumed by Government and laid out into townships with much being taken by Squatters and the rest ruined by lumbermen. In his submission of suggestions Hughes recommended that a school be established for the children in the Eastern Townships (some distance from the rest of the Tribe) "as too many Indians reside on the banks of the Ottawa".
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- Language
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- 2026-10-18T11:46:29Z · source datestamp 2025-07-14T19:18:18Z · ead