Collection search - Plan of the Tract of Land to be purchased from the Mississague Indians - IT 044

GAD Reference number: IT 044;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 14
Aboriginal people(s): Mississague Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chechalk and others
Specific purpose(s): Indicates location of land to be purchased from Mississague Indians and indicates location of Indian reserves
Land involved: Land fronting on Lake Ontario west of the River Etobicoke, situated in Peel and Halton Counties
Form: Manuscript original
Maps: "Plan of the Tract of Land to be purchased from the Mississague Indians"; Surveyor General: C.B. Wyatt;

The map has 10 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures. There is also a large red wax seal on the top left corner. The map is coloured with yellow, green and blue.

The document is laminated with tissue. There are small holes through the center and side edges are torn.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 36-40.

Scale: 1:126 720 (160 chains to 1 inch).

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.

This treaty has no date but probably accompanies lease of 1806/09/05 or surrender of 1806/09/06.

IT 041 - provisional agreement, IT 042 - surrender, IT 043 - lease, IT 045 - correspondence