- Queen's University Archives
- Algonquins of Golden Lake Claim collection
- Primary Documents PD607-PD641
- B. E. Sparham, Police Magistrate for Smith's Falls, Ontario to Frank Oliver, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
B. E. Sparham, Police Magistrate for Smith's Falls, Ontario to Frank Oliver, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
Description only — contact the archiveView at source ↗
Where
Not on the map yet.
- Held by
- Queen's University Archives via Queen's University Archives
- Dates
- 07 Dec 1910 (indexed as 1910)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
- Scope & content
- Letter: stating that a Chief of St. Regis Indians interviewed him saying "that he had given one of his tribe the right to come up to Smiths Falls and hwlt and fish in this vicinity and that some official up here compelled this Indian to pay $10.00 for a license. He claims that Indians have the right to these parts for a hunting and fishing grounds and that they should not be charged a license fee. He showed me an extract from Royal Proclamation of 1763 which provided 'that the Indians should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our Dominion and Territory as not having been ceded to or purchased by us are reserved to them as their hunting gournds."" Asking for advice on hunting and fishing rights of Iroquois Indians between Smiths Falls and Kingston.
- Location
No place found in this description yet.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T11:46:29Z · source datestamp 2025-07-14T19:19:10Z · ead