Archives and history of Tiowero:ton (Ministerial correspondances concerning the creation of Reserves in Lower Canada, and a specific focus on Kanehsatake) / (Correspondances ministérielles lors de la création des réserves au Bas-Canada, et un focus particulier sur Kanehsatake)

Eric Pouliot-Thisdale

Outline

Archives and history of Tiowero:ton (Ministerial correspondances concerning the creation of Reserves in Lower Canada, and a specific focus on Kanehsatake) / (Correspondances ministérielles lors de la création des réserves au Bas-Canada, et un focus particulier sur Kanehsatake)

Abstract

(Cet exposé n'est qu'une esquisse sans pretention) (This presentation is simply an unpretentious sketch) In order to understand the procedure encountered from the creation of Tioweroton until our days, several important periods must be exposed and analysed in order to clarify the several episodes which led to present situation of this Crown land delivered to the people of Caughnawaga and the people of the Mission of the Lake Two Mountains. Doncaster was officially designated as Doncaster 17 by Native and Northern Affairs Canada as a reserve in the Laurentides for the Mohawks of Kanesatake and Kahnawake. It is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Mont-Tremblant in the Doncaster geographic township named after the town in England. It at been since occasionally sparsely inhabited, and used only as a hunting and fishing territory. 1 It was created to offer hunting grounds, but was not used a lot until the 1900s. Since Mohawks weren’t present, several European squatters then took the opportunity to install permanent habitations in order to cut wood which led to a long legal outcome to manage the situation. On August 30, 1851, the act was authorized to set apart lands in Lower Canada for the use and benefit of the Seven Nations, First Nation tribes. Of course 1851 was the year when all reserves were created and the first in Quebec was the Innu-Montagnais reserve, Mashteuiatsh, previously called Pointe Bleue. Two years later on August 9, 1853, the Governor General in Council approved the distribution list as proposed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, John Rolph. That was how Kahnawake and Kanesatake came to co-manage the lands. The political administrators thought they could make use of our agricultural lands from European colonies and give hunting lands to Mohawks, of a lesser economical value. According to that list, the "Indians of Caughnawaga (Kahnawake) and lake of two Mountains" (Kanesatake), were allotted the south-east quarter of the township of Doncaster, behind the township of Wexford, in an area exposing 16,000 acres (65 km2). Several questionings from members of both Mohawks communities; Kanesatake and Kahnawake motivated this research, since demographic details about the ancestors who lived there from periodic and partly permanent time sequences seems to be lacking at large for many.

FAQs

What historical factors influenced the establishment of Doncaster as a Mohawk reserve?add

The creation of Doncaster as a Mohawk reserve in 1853 was largely driven by the need to manage land for the Mohawks due to religious segregation between Methodists and Catholics. This reserve was meant to provide hunting grounds but saw little use until the 1900s.

How did squatters impact the legal status of the Doncaster Reserve?add

European squatters occupied the Doncaster Reserve, leading to extensive legal disputes over property rights and occupancy. The 1920 Privy Council ruling indicated that such lands reverted to the Crown once the Indian interest was surrendered, complicating ownership.

What were the demographics of the Kanesatake and Kahnawake communities in 1902?add

In 1902, the Kanesatake community had 423 females and 364 males aged 21 and older, while Kahnawake's demographics were similarly reported. This demographic breakdown shows significant gender disparities in both communities.

When was the first Indian reserve established in Quebec and what were its implications?add

The first Indian reserve in Quebec was established in 1851 for the Innu-Montagnais, significantly impacting future land allocations and management practices. This set a precedent that affected subsequent reserves, including Doncaster.

What legal precedents arose from disputes regarding Indian lands in Canada?add

Legal precedents, such as the Star Chrome Mining case in 1920, confirmed that once Indian title was surrendered, land ownership transferred to the Crown. This shifted legal interpretations of land rights, influencing future agreements and Indian land management.

Archives and history of Tiowero:ton Conducted for the Community of Kanesatake Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, February 2018 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 1 Research conducted by Eric Pouliot from the year 2015 to 2017 period, based on previous publications from the same, as well as new maps, in order to expose the creation of the Tioweroton reserve, previously named Ste-Lucie-de-Doncaster, whose management is shared by Kahnawake and Kanesatake, in order to shed light on its history, and the jurisdictions concerning its creation and management. Eric Pouliot Thisdale is a graduate in social sciences and member of the Faculty of Human Science from University of Quebec in Montreal, (UQAM), and researcher since 16 years in the field of public archives of several sources, including military archives, political correspondences, parish registers, censuses, maps and all associated demographical datas. He also collaborated with certain lawyers cabinets and Band Council considering his supplementary paralegal studies at UQAM and O’Sullivan College. He also manages a history chronicle for The Eastern Door, the weekly Kahnawake paper and published several studies online at Library and Archives Canada and of Quebec at BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec). Copyrights ISBN: 978-1-988411-13-2 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 2 INDEX Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................3 Author’s acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................5 Chapter 1: Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 ............................................................................7 -Distribution of the lands set apart according to the 1851 Act ...........................................................13 -The extended list of documents encountered in the microfilm linked to: Two Mountains-Kanesatake-Oka Indians ............................................................................................24 -Previous jurisdictions: surrounding the creation of reserves ............................................................. 60 -1850-1970 Major themes concerning laws and jurisdictions ..............................................................60 -An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands. C.S.L.C. 1860; c. 14 ........................................................64 Chapter 2: Legal precedent: The Star Chrome Mining Case, 1920 .............................................................66 - Star Chrome Wood Company: annexed jurisdiction and history ......................................................66 -The precedents which had effect for Doncaster-Tioweroton ..........................................................70 -An Act for the settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Reserve Lands, 1924..................................................................................72 -Archives: Star Chrome Jurisdiction 1920-1921 ..................................................................................79 -Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction 1923-1933 .........................................................96 Chapter 3: Petitions from Squatters and Mayor of Ste. Lucie claiming lands 1873-1890 ................... 155 Chapter 4: Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the Squatters 1897 to 1905 ...................................................................................................................227 -Solution exposing that the settlers could have their lands: by the government 1902 ................... 289 -Trade Doncaster for Residential Schools: An attempt was made by the government in order to manage the transfer of funds entitled to Doncaster towards the building and management of the Residential School 1902 .................................................................................. 305 -Two important historical reports which exposed the history until the management of the departure of the squatters .................................................................................................... 313 -Amable Roussin: segregationist between Oka and Caughnawaga 1902 .........................................350 -25 October 1902, vote made against the surrender of Doncaster in exchange for a residential schools .............................................................................................................................354 -Legal procedure toward surveying and expulsions of the squatters 1902-1905..............................381 Name Encountered ....................................................................................................................................542 Source and Notes ............................................................................................................................... 547-552 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 3 Introduction In order to understand the procedure encountered from the creation of Tioweroton until our days, several important periods must be exposed and analysed in order to clarify the several episodes which led to present situation of this Crown land delivered to the people of Caughnawaga and the people of the Mission of the Lake Two Mountains. Doncaster was officially designated as Doncaster 17 by Native and Northern Affairs Canada as a reserve in the Laurentides for the Mohawks of Kanesatake and Kahnawake. It is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Mont-Tremblant in the Doncaster geographic township named after the town in England. It at been since occasionally sparsely inhabited, and used only as a hunting and fishing territory. 1 It was created to offer hunting grounds, but was not used a lot until the 1900s. Since Mohawks weren’t present, several European squatters then took the opportunity to install permanent habitations in order to cut wood which led to a long legal outcome to manage the situation. On August 30, 1851, the act was authorized to set apart lands in Lower Canada for the use and benefit of the Seven Nations, First Nation tribes. Of course 1851 was the year when all reserves were created and the first in Quebec was the Innu-Montagnais reserve, Mashteuiatsh, previously called Pointe Bleue. Two years later on August 9, 1853, the Governor General in Council approved the distribution list as proposed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, John Rolph. That was how Kahnawake and Kanesatake came to co-manage the lands. The political administrators thought they could make use of our agricultural lands from European colonies and give hunting lands to Mohawks, of a lesser economical value. According to that list, the "Indians of Caughnawaga (Kahnawake) and lake of two Mountains" (Kanesatake), were allotted the south-east quarter of the township of Doncaster, behind the township of Wexford, in an area exposing 16,000 acres (65 km2). Several questionings from members of both Mohawks communities; Kanesatake and Kahnawake motivated this research, since demographic details about the ancestors who lived there from periodic and partly permanent time sequences seems to be lacking at large for many. 1 Ste Lucie des Laurentides official website, consulted November 2015 http://www.municipalite.sainte-lucie-des-laurentides.qc.ca/ Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 4 It is supposed that Doncaster was primarily designed for Two Mountains in order to avoid the troubles caused by the religious segregation within mainly Methodists Mohawks vs Algonquins who were mainly Catholics. A popular belief is speculating that when the Sulpicians and the Federal government were looking to relocate the people of Kanesatake and that a member of parliament apparently also suggested relocating Kahnawake as well, which happened. Unfortunately, such speculations on that behalf often brought mislead theories, so in order to remain neutral; the research was managed scientifically through the available archives without any of these speculations. The notion of Kahnawake having sole ownership grew out of the administrative arrangement that was agreed to at some point: that, based on population and budgetary considerations, Kahnawake would have 2/3 of the financial responsibility and Kanesatake 1/3. Though, from all previous ministerial correspondences, it was always exposed that Doncaster’s Indian reserve was managed by both communities. In a letter from 20 August 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton writes to his Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna there is a mention exposing that only male members aged 21 and older were allowed to vote in Band Councils in Canada until 1951. Pursuant to the provision of Section 39 of the Indian Act, Chapter 43 of the Revised Statutes of Canada I, the undersigned, do hereby authorise you to attend a meeting of Council of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga (sometimes called the Iroquois of Sault Saint Louis) band of Indians summoned according to the rules of the said band for this purpose of considering the question of release or surrender of the Doncaster Indian Reserve by the said band to the Crown in accordance with the said Act and of assent- ing to such release or surrender if so decides by a majority of the male members at the said meeting or Council. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 5 Author’s acknowledgements This exhaustive research managed in a book was inspired from researches which started spontaneously in order to gather more details about potential wedding registers for a book on my behalf started 7 years ago which was published online at Library and Archives Canada as well as at BAnQ: Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec in 2012: 1786-1800 Oka Mission Parish registers Kanehsatà:ke, OKA. It brought my curiosity to go further and to observe more maps, surveyors accounts, censuses and those parish registers from the Ste-Lucie-des-Laurentides microfilms which brought my agenda filled with meeting with the archive of Quebec in Montreal, at the conservation center. It’s by observing original maps in order to make lots perimeters analysis that I first published online as the previous parish registers book, at Archives of Canada and Quebec under Ste Lucie, Doncaster Tiowero:ton archives 1851-1921. But that wasn’t enough, much more needed to be done. From the author, Ste Lucie, Doncaster Tiowero:ton archives 1851-1921 2016 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 6 Getting in knowledge of the incredible amount of archived ministerial correspondences, which were never either transcribed or published previously, brought my curiosity to eventually manage to write this present book. The idea came to me to gather all these archives in order to manage a proper exposition of my sources and what was available to the public online, in order to realize that it was gonna be a premiere to publish such a research. The present will expose the public ministerial correspondences concerning most reserves created in Lower Canada and the perimeters jurisdictions concerning them are basically all exposed in the present and with the sources references annexed in order to eventually manage similar researches even for other communities of the province. Of course here, the focus will remain for those concerning Ste Lucie, Doncaster Tiowero:ton. Of course ministerial correspondences and documents from years which are too close to our periods which are not public yet would be compromising to publish and are protected by contractual agreements. Yes I previously managed researches for several Band Councils and community education departments in Canada concerning several topics. But the subject concerning the creation of reserves in Canada, was lacking. From the author, 2016 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 7 Chapter 1: Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 2 This period brought clarifications through ministerial and politicians correspondences from the 1853 to 1902 period, through transcriptions which are clearly exposing the procedures encountered during the management of the division on the 230,000 acres of lands granted by the Crown in order to make the reserves. Though, what is inherent to understand is that the lands granted were put in place in order to promote agriculture or any other symbiotic economical sources, considering that previously, through the previous jurisdictions concerning the creation of reserves, the British colonial ministry introduced policies adopted in 1830 to encourage indigenous peoples to adopt the European agricultural customs. By the mid-1830s, treaties covered most of Upper Canada's arable land. The agreements provided the distribution of goods and money. It is only as the treaty system evolved that the principle of these agreements included a provision for the establishment of Indian reserves started. A report made in 1844 by the commission of inquiry managed by the Governor General Charles Begot made the distinction between Upper Canada, where the Crown took surrender of the Indians’ “right of occupancy upon their old hunting grounds” through treaty, and Lower Canada, “where settlement had made considerable progress before the Conquest.” The commission made the extraordinary suggestion under the French regime that the Indians’ “Territorial Possessions had at that time become circumscribed within defined limits, and in many instances were held by Patents under the French Crown” and it was only “on the Ottawa, in which the Indians have been dispossessed of their ancient hunting grounds without compensation.”3 4 2 LAC, Source mainly used for this Chapter: HEADQUARTERS - CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (120 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95452. 3 Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly of Canada, Journals, 1847, Appendix (T.), “Report on the affairs of the Indians in Canada” at folio 5. 4 PRE-CONFEDERATION CLAIMS AND FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL OBLIGATIONS: A SURVEY OF THE APPLICABLE LAW prepared for the Indian Claims Commission (Revised version) David Schulze with Peter W. Hutchins and Jameela Jeeroburkhan Hutchins Grant & Associés 11 November 2005, page 16, accessed June 11, 2017, : http://www.dionneschulze.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pre-Confed-DS-rev-for-ICC.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 8 In 1850 came the adoption of An Act for the Better Protection of the Lands and Property of the Indians in Lower Canada which was followed by the act of 1851, entitled Act to Authorize the Setting apart of Lands for the use of Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, August 30, 1851, which authorized the commissary of Crown Lands to put aside extended lands of Lower Canada for Indians. The act allowed the creations of several reserves of 230 000 acres of lands, administered by the Commissary of Indian Lands, reserved for Indians and shared in 1853: Temiskamingue, Maniwaki, Coleraine (Becancour), Doncaster (Mohawks of Kahnawake and Oka Mission), Coucoucache & Weymontachie (Atikamekws), Roquemont (Hurons-Wendats of Lorette, sold in 1904), Viger (Malecites), Restigouche (Mik'maqs), Pointe-Bleue (Innu of Lac-Saint-Jean), Bersimis (Innu of Manicouagan) and Betsiamites (Innu). During the establishment of the 1851 statute, even though the negotiation of land cession treaties were already developed in southern Ontario, no treaties were then negotiated in southern Quebec. In all, 230,000 acres were set aside and divided among the several “Indian tribes” according to an Order in Council adopted on 9 August 1853, which included the Mohawks of Kanesatake and Kahnawake who were jointly given a reserve of 16,000 acres in a township, the Doncaster reserve in the Laurentians. 5 6 7 It is in 1857 that the adoption of An Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of the Indian Tribes in the Province was passed by the fifth Parliament of the Province of Canada (formally Upper Canada and Lower Canada). It is from that jurisdiction that the principle of legal emancipation started occurring, which aimed to encourage Aboriginal men to give up their status and rights in order to be integrated into the Canadian society. 5 Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report, Volume 1, Looking Forward Looking Back, Part One, The Relationship in Historical Perspective, Chapter 6, “3. Treaty Making in Ontario, the West and the North”. 6 The substance of the Order in Council of 9 August 1853 was published as “Schedule of Lands Appropriated to the Indians of Lower Canada under Act 14 and 15 V. c. 106”, signed for the Commissioner of Crown Lands and dated 8 June 1854, in Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Journals, 1858, Vol. 16, App. (No. 21), Appendix No. 34. 7 Jacqueline Beaulieu, Localization of the Aboriginal Nations in Québec - Land Transactions (Québec: Ministère des ressources naturelles, 1998) page 120, , accessed June 11, 2017, : http://www.dionneschulze.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pre-Confed-DS-rev-for-ICC.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 9 Then in 1860 the Colonial Office assigned the responsibilities of Indian Affairs to the provincial governments. In Quebec, the Indian Affairs fell under the responsibilities of the department of the Crown Lands until 1867 when the adoption of the Constitution under the British North America Act (Later amended by the Constitution in 1982) came in effect, uniting Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. By contrast, most Algonquins and Innus then qualified as “Montagnais, Tadoussacs, Papinachois, Nauthapi(Naskapis) and other Nomadic Tribes in the interior of the King’s Post” obtained 70,000 acres in the yet undefined Manicouagan locality, only officially created in 1866. 8 The Constitutional Law of 1867 allocated to the Parliament of Canada the jurisdiction over Indians and the lands reserved to the Indians (article 91) to managed treaty policies. In 1868 The Federal Parliament adopted An Act providing for the organisation of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, and for the management of Indian and Ordinance Lands, S.C. 1868, c. 42. The Act was based on the policy of protection, assimilation and Christianization prior to confederation, being a gathering of the previous Indian laws. These efforts bore fruit in 1851 when the Legislative Assembly of the colony adopted An Act to Authorise the Setting Apart of Lands for the Use of Certain Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, 9 on the terms that “the Indians of Lower Canada had not received the same aid that those of Upper Canada had, and they were in [a] state of distress.”10 In this period, a legal decision clarified that while a surrender could only be made to the federal Crown, the lands contained in an 1851 reserve had to return to the provincial Crown. On 10 June 1854, the Commissioner of Crown Lands gave instructions for the surveying of the outer boundaries of the township of Doncaster and the Indian lands in Doncaster. 11 The creation of new reserves in Quebec then became troublesome to a certain extent by the authorities because of the insubstantiality of its federal legal title. 8 Clément E. Deschamps, Municipalités et paroisses dans la province de Québec (n.p., 1896) page 986. 9 An Act to Authorise the Setting Apart of Lands for the Use of Certain Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, S.C. 1851, c.106 10 Elizabeth Gibbs, ed., Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada, 1841-1867, vol. 10, part 1, 1851 (Montreal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français) page 199. 11 Earlier, three justices of the Supreme Court of Canada had concluded that title to an 1851 reserve passed to the federal Crown at Confederation: Attorney-General for Canada v. Giroux (1916), 30 D.L.R. 123, 4 C.N.L.C. 147 (S.C.C.), per Duff J. at 137-40 and per Idington J. at 132-33. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 10 Since its creation in 1853 several conflicts concerning squatters in both Quebec and Ontario brought a Superior Court precedent through the Star Chrome Mining case. The dispute came from the position of whether the federal government or the province had the authority to dispose of land contained in a reserve created under the 1851 statute, once the reserve lands had been surrendered. 12 In the 1880s, sixteen European squatters were expelled by the government who had to spend covering legal fees of 28 000$ in order to put a term to it. Also, around 1889, a wood company did the same, without any warrants and it took several years until Mohawks and/or the government to react. Various microfilm-reels observed from Library and Archives Canada exposing correspondence regarding the Department of Crown Lands setting aside certain lands for Indians of the Province of Quebec, 1853-1920, presenting extended lists of documents encountered linked to Two Mountains-Kanesatake-Oka Indians will be exposed in various chapters as a premiere. 12 Attorney-General for Quebec v. Attorney-General for Canada. Re Indian Lands, a judicial review granted, under the name Star Chrome Mining) (1920), 56 D.L.R. 373 (P.C.) at 375, 4 C.N.L.C. 238 at page 240. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 11 On May 26, 1890 a petition by squatters was signed in presence of Priest Lajeunesse then in charge, by some of them, 43 inhabitants of the Doncaster Township requesting the abolition of the Mohawk reserve in the township13. Honorable Sir, Us subsigned, living in the Doncaster District, are asking very humbly for you to use your upmost influence to make the savage reserve disappear from our district and to make a land survey. This reserve which contains a large number of excellent lands proper to agriculture, located in the middle of occupied lands by a French Canadian population annexed to our village, is observed as an anomaly and all of them are hoping to see it disappear. Anyways, it can’t be of any utility to the savages who will never come to install themselves, since the games are lacking. Also, the wood is being stolen from all sides, they are taking the wood, so the sooner it will be measures, fewer damages will be done. We are observing that the reserve in the township of Doncaster is a big obstacle to colonisation progress in our locality. Our municipality is suffering from it since this reserve contains about the third of the district. For these reasons, Honorable Sir, we hope that you will favorably accept our request, and we won’t stop praying that Ste Lucie of Doncaster. The Privy Council agreed with the province and ruled in 1920 “that upon the surrender... of the Indian interest the title to the lands affected by the surrender became vested in the Crown in right of the Province, freed from the burden of that interest.”14 The result was a new provincial statute which in 1922 allowed for “public lands [which] shall not exceed, in all, three hundred and thirty thousand acres in superficies” to be “set apart, for the benefit of the various Indian tribes of this Province” through a transfer “in trust” to the federal government. 15 13 Caughnawaga Agency - Petition signed by the inhabitants of the Doncaster Township requesting the abolition of the Indian reserve in the township, Library and Archives Canada. 14 Attorney-General for Quebec v. Attorney-General for Canada. Re Indian Lands (sub nom. Star Chrome Mining) (1920), 56 D.L.R. 373 (P.C.) at 375, 4 C.N.L.C. 238 page 240. 15 Ibid 3 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 12 The Indians’ title was to be usufructuary (has the right to use (usus) the property and enjoy its fruits (fructus)) and inalienable and the lands were to “return to the Government of the Province, without formality whatsoever” if the Indians ceased to occupy them. Moreover, Quebec carefully excluded mining rights from the grant.16 As for the Algonquins, they presented several claims in order to be relocated to their ancestral hunting lands, including this claim exposed on 18 March 1847 by the interpreter Dominique Ducharme, who was previously entitled as the Captain of the Warriors in the War of 1812-14 including Mohawks, Algonquins and Nipissings of the Two Mountains Mission write this letter as the interpreter.17 16 An Act respecting lands set apart for Indians, S.Q. 1922, c.37, s.1. 17 LAC, Oka agency - Lake of Two Mountains - dispute between the band and the Seminary of St. Sulpice as to who holds title to the land in the Seigniory, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11138 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 13 Distribution of the lands set apart according to the 1851 Act On June 8, 1853, a distribution list for the lands set apart, according to the 1851 Act, was proposed by John Rolph, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Conforming to that list, the people of Caughnawaga (Kahnawake) and Lake of Two Mountains (Kanesatake) were allotted one quarter of the township of Doncaster, behind the township of Wexford. The area indicated is 16 000 acres. In a document entitled “Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the Statute 14 & 15th Vic Chp 104 for the benefit of the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada”, Doncaster is cited as being part of the county of Leinster. John Rolph, then Commissary of the Crown Land Department, gave his agreement in a letter from July 14, 1853, exposing his grace upon the Indian lands surveys. On August 9, 1853 William H. Lee. (C.E.C.; Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs) exposed that the Schedule Showing the Distribution of lands under the Stature 14 and 15 Vict. Cap 106 is approved by his Superior instance. The same day on REGISTRATION NUMBER 15565, the Governor General in Council approved the distribution list submitted two months earlier by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Also in this chapter, several interferences of woodcutting and mining companies which brought several important cases mentioned through correspondences of S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries in 1901-1903, are exposed in the several instances of provincial and federal court concerning the natural resources exploited directly from the parcels of Crown lands. A precedent entitled The Star Chrome Mining Case (1886-1920), was ruled in 1920, in favour of First Nations, but the provincial instances in Quebec managed to keep their right in exploitations in the fields of mining and natural resources. From Quebec, on the 13th August 1853 the Esquire of Crown Lands Department in Quebec, Jean Langevin exposed this letter to Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Robert Bruce. Sir, The Schedule of Lands set apart for the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada leaving date 8th June last, submitted to the Governor General in Council and approved by order in Council of 9th June being it appears mislaid; I have the honour of enclosing herewith a copy that certified by E.T. Fletcher Esq. Of the LC (Land Crown) Surveying Branch. I Have the honor to remain Sir Your most Obediant Servant Jean Langevin for C.C.L. (Council Crown Lands) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 14 The management of the organisation of the creation of reserves was already occurring in previous letters, such as from 9 February 1853 by Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Robert Bruce to the Commissary of Crown Lands, which wrote: Encloses schedule of the Distribution of the Indian Lands amongst the different Tribes of Lower Canada, 730,000 acres. I recommend their being surveyed and the boundaries defined. On the left side of the same document a note by William H. Lee. (C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs wrote as: Execution Council Office, 23rd May 1853, Return of the Crown Lands Office for preparation of an amended schedule containing the suggestions contained in the letter from the Superintendent General, dated 15thMarch For order William H. Lee. Indian Department, Quebec 7th February 1853, Referred to Colonel Napier Who will plan in return it with His remarks thereon. By command, Robert Bruce, Superintendent of Indian Affair. Then in a letter from Quebec on 15th March 1853 from Robert Bruce, Superintendent of Indian Affairs to John Rolph, the Commissioner of Crown Lands exposed: Indian Department, Quebec 15th March 1853. Sir, I am dictated by the Governor General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th ulto (Ulto: the present month) enclosing a Schedule of the proposed distribution of the Lands set apart by the SC: 106, 14th & 15th Vic among the Indians of Lower Canada, and to state that His Excellency is of opinion this arrangement with two or three slight modifications which now proceed to submit for you in consideration will prove a great boon with these Tribes. 1st The reserve of Maniwaki on Lake Desert was exposed as: might be allotted to the Tetes de Boules Nepissings and Algonquins Indians of the Ottawa and the Lake of Two Mountains, these being homogeneous tribes. 2nd The Becancour Indians are mentioned as being: in a very destitute condition are omitted, perhaps they might be included with the St. Francis Indians at the La Tuque Reserve. 3rd paragraph, concerning St. Regis, Lake of Two Mountains and Caughnawaga Indians: 3rd, The St Regis Indians being already comparatively well provided for the tract at Doncaster County Leinster to be appointed to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and of the Lake of the Two Mountains. There for (Therefore), Signed R Bruce, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 15 Then, the Schedule showing the distribution of the lands set apart according to the 1851 Act, a distribution list for the lands set apart and appropriated under the Statute 14 & 15th Vic Chapter 106 for the benefits of the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada was proposed on June 8, 1853 by John Rolph, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Here the schedule was exposed by K.T. Fletcher, Secretary for the Commissary of Crown Lands, who was then representing John Rolph, the Crown Lands Commissioner. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 16 A distribution list for the lands set apart was proposed on June 29, 1853 entitled: Schedule sharing the distribution of the case of lands set apart and appropriated under the Status 15 & 15 Vic Chapter 106 for the benefit of the Indian Tribes, Lower Canada, by John Rolph signed underneath. What is strange is that in this schedule, the Nipissings AKA Tetes de Boules with the Algonquins and Iroquois of Two Mountains are listed in the column “Names of the Indian Tribes” in the County of “Ottawa”, Township or Locality of “Maniwaki and River Desert”. Then, Those from Caughnawaga & St. Regis are listed in the County of “Leinster”, Township of “Doncaster and North River” “16,000 acres, a quarter behind the Township in Bedford”. Tribes hunting on the territory between the Mattawanis (Mattawan) and Gatineau principally residing at the Mission of Lake of Two Mountains. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 17 On August 9 1853, when William H. Lee.” (C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs) exposed the Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the statute 14 and 15 Vict. Art 106 for the benefit of Indians Tribes in Lower Canada, we can observe several irregularities which were eventually corrected, since Caughnawaga was mentioned and not Two Mountains. Then, a schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the statute 14 and 15 Vict. Art 106 for the benefit of Indians Tribes in Lower Canada from 23 February 1858, by Joseph Wauhebe, responsible of Crown Lands exposes: Note: here the Iroquois of Two Mountains were added SCHEDULE: Shewing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the Statute 14th and 15th Vict., Ch. 106, for the benefit of Indian Tribes in Lower Canada. County Township or No. of Description Names of Remarks. Locality. Acres. of the Indian Boundaries. Tribes. Megantic, Plaine Doncaster 2,000 Lots N.48 123 Becancour 1758 in 10th Q 688 Indians Village Becancour. Surveyed. Leinster in 12th R Lot ...8 ... North River St. Aquatic Township Iroquois of Caughnawaga Surveyed. Laurence 16,000 in rear of Wexford Caugh nawaga and 2 Mountains At the bottom of the board was written: Certified a true copy of the original of record in this Department.(Sgd.) E. E. TACHÉ, Assist.-Commissioner, Department of Crown Lands, Quebec, 30th April, 1889. Crown Land Department, Toronto, 23rd February, 1858, Ind. (Sgd.) Joseph Wauhebe, P.L. In 1858 occured the official Statement of the Indian Lands in Lower Canada. –Set apart by 14th and 18th, Vict. Ch. 106.- In a letter on the 20/24 July 1858, Andrew Russell the Assistant, Commissioner of Crown Lands “transmitted plans of the tracts lot apart in the township of Mann, Doncaster, Viger, Temiscaming and Maniwaki for the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada” to Richard Theodore Pennefather who was then superintendent-general. Pennefather, was the official head of the Indian Affairs. His greatest contribution to Canada was his chairmanship of a three-man commission which conducted an inquiry from 1856 to 1858 into the Indian Department’s operations. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 18 A report-letter of 20 February 1858 provided a complete picture of the department and of the Indian bands of the province through use of a massive number of statistics. It was noted with surprise that efforts to “civilize” the Indians were still piece-meal despite almost 30 years of such a policy. Because the Indians did not respond to attempts at “civilization,” and because of the lack of organization and funding in the department, conditions among the Indians were not good in the late 1850s.18 18 Douglas Leighton, “PENNEFATHER, RICHARD THEODORE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pennefather_richard_theodore_9E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 19 Then a in letter from 30 April 1889 the Assistant of Crown Lands of the Province of Quebec to H. Vankoughnet, Esquire Superintendent General of Indian Affairs is citing the previous letter. Province of Quebec, Department of Crown Lands, Quebec 30th April 1889 Sir, Agreeably, to your letter of the 16th inst, please find herewith enclosed, copy of a schedule showing the proposed distribution among the different Indian Tribes in Lower Canada of Land of the extent or acres of 23 acres etc. And also a copy of an Order in Council bearing date the 9th August 1853 on the matter. I have the honor to be Sir Your Obt. Servant, Assistant Commissioner. (Perhaps Andrew Russell) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 20 An extract of a letter from the Indian Agent J.A. Macrae, Ottawa, from 27 August 1901 citing the previous legal contentious of white men cutting wood, exploiting the reserve of Maniwaki, “State, Character and Utilisation of the Reserve” was annexed with a Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901 annexed by Macrae, from March 3, 1902. Ottawa 27th Aug 1901, (Maniwaki), State character and utilisation of the Reserve. From the Agent’s books it sounds that the land now reserved for this band has an area of 44603 acres odd, That of the original reserve 133 acres odd have been surrendered for sale. That Indians are located for 6198 acres odd. That of this 6198 acres, 275 acres odd are leased to whitemen, That whitemen also lease 622 acres odd of unlocated land, And that 37, 789 acres odd are lying unused and unsettled. The land is if the best, level, and little broken except along the river fronts. Thout (Though) 771 acres of the 44,663 acres in the reserve are cleared and of those 726 acres are cultivated, 393 acres by Indians and 333 acres by leases. The day when 25,000 or 30,000 acres may be profitably marketed for the benefit of the band should I think, be looked for. Sgd J.A. Macrae I.I.A&R. (Intendent Indian Affairs & Reserves “Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec”, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901 annexed by Macrae, from March 3, 1902. (First page 1/4, translation) -Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec. In virtue of the Act 14-16 Vic., C. 106. (1851) the Governor in Council received authority to make reserves on Crown lands for the needs of the Indian tribes of Lower Canada.- By an order in Council of the 9th April, 1852, the then Governor did in fact in different parts of the province make the reserves required for the Indian tribes of Lower Canada. Amongst the reserves thus erected was that of the township of Coloraine, containing an area of 2000 acres in range 10, 12 and 13 of this township, for the Abenakis tribe of Becancour. [...] (Second page 2/4, translation) [...] Sections 106-109 and 117 relate to the division of the different proportions between the provinces and the Federal government. Clause 96 of section 91 grants the Federal government the power to legislate in regard to Indians and the lands of Indians. Observe, however, that this clause does not grant to the Federal government the ownership of lands reserved for the Indians, but only legislative authority in regard to Indians and lands reserved for the Indians. In the case of the “St. Catherine’ Milling and Lumbering Company and the Attorney General for Ontario” judged by the Privy Council in 1886, this question of the jurisdiction of the Federal government and the Local government was treated at length, Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 21 and in the case admitted in that suit question was decided in favour of the government of Ontario. The following are the facts of the case. In 1873, the Federal government made with a tribe of Indians called the Saulteux tribe of Ojibway Indians a treaty in virtue of which this tribe renounced in favour of the Federal government all its rights to the lands on its reserve except for hunting and fishing. Part of the lands of the reserve in question are within the province of Ontario. On the conclusion of this treaty the Federal government granted a license to out timber on the lands of the reserve in favour of the “St. Catharine’ Milling lumbering Company”. The Attorney General for Ontario then intervened and instituted an action against the Company (...) this license to cut timber, in order that the court (...)[...] (Third page 3/4, translation) [...]...declare that the Company had the right to the timber out under the license from the Federal government and as that it might be ordered to cease cutting under that license and be considered to pay damages for the timber out. All the courts of Ontario decided in favour of the Attorney General for Ontario. The case was carried to the Supreme Court, and the majority of that court con-firmed the judgments of the courts of Ontario, and finally all those judgments were costumed by the Privy Council. The judgment of the Privy Council is in effect that, while in virtue of clause 24 of section 91 of the British North American Act the Federal government has authority to legislate in regard to the Indians and the lands reserved for the Indians.- 1. It has no right to the ownership of these lands. 2. That in virtue of clause 100 of the Act of 1867 those lands and the mines contained therein remain the property of the provincial government, but are subject to the charges, “trusts”, which they here before confederation. 3. That one of those charges, or “trusts”, is the title in virtue of which the Indians are in possession thereof. 4. That the title of the Indians to those reserves of lands is simply a usual right of usurfructus (droit personnel d’usurfruit) depending on the pleasure of the Crown. 5. That the moment those lands are encumbered of the Indian title’ they revert to the provincial government. Applying these principles to the case submitted in the suite of the “St. Catharine’ Milling and Lumbering Company” the Privy Council judged that by (...)[...] Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 22 (Last page 4/4, translation) [...]... Fraser, a case of the Province of Ontario in which the learned Judge following the authority of the judgment of the Privy Council in the case of the “St. Catharine’ Milling and Lumbering Company and the Attorney General for Ontario’ judged and concluded as follow,- ‘I conclude, therefore, that the Dominion had no power to sell or grant Indian lands whether sur-rendered or unsurrendered’. The undersigned submits that those authorities are decisive in the matter, and hopes that the Dominion government will cease all encroachment in the matter in future, without prejudice to any recourse by the provincial government for that has been done in the past in regard to grants by the government within Indian reserves in this province. The whole humbly submitted, S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 23 Letter from Joseph Pope, Under-Secretary of State19 to the Secretary of Indian Affairs, 28 February 1902. 19 P. B. Waite, “POPE, Sir JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pope_joseph_15E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 24 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 The extended list of documents encountered in the microfilm linked to: Two Mountains-Kanesatake-Oka Indians: page 28 to 63 Page 1 Creations of reserves in Lower Canada 1853-1878 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 25 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 2: Distribution of the lands set apart according to the 1851 Act, a distribution list for the lands set apart was proposed on June 8, 1853 by John Rolph, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Here the schedule was exposed by K.T. Fletcher representing John Rolph, the Crown Lands Commissioner. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 26 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 3, Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the Statute 14 & 15th Vic Chp 104 for the benefit of the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada: citing Leinster, Doncaster. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 27 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 4 Crown Lands Department, Quebec, 13th August 1853 from the Esquire of Crown Lands Jean Langevin to Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Robert Bruce. “Sir, The Schedule of Lands set apart for the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada leaving date 8th June last, submitted to the Governor General in Council and approved by order in Council of 9th June being it appears mislaid; I have the honour of enclosing herewith a copy that certified by E.T. Fletcher Esq. Of the LC (Land Crown) Surveying Branch. I Have the honor to remain Sir Your most Obediant Servant Jean Langevin for C.C.L. (Council Crown Lands)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 28 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 4 Crown Lands Department, Quebec, 13th August 1853 from the Esquire of Crown Lands Jean Langevin to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Robert Bruce. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 29 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 6 “13/13 August 1853. Count of C. Lands by J. Langevin Transmits a certified copy of the Schedule of Lands set apart for the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 30 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 7: left side “Execution Council Office 23rd May 1853 Return of the Crown Lands Office for preparation of an amended schedule containing the suggestions contained in the letter from the Superintendent General, dated 15th March For order William H. Lee.” (C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 31 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 7: right side “Commsr of Crown Lands. 9 February 1853 Encloses schedule of the Distribution of the Indian Lands amongst the different Tribes of Lower Canada, 730,000 acres. I recommend their being surveyed and the boundaries defined. Indian Department Quebec 7th February 1853 Referred to Colonel Napier Who will plan in return it with His remarks thereon. By command Robert Bruce, Superintendent of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 32 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 11 Letter of Quebec 15th March 1853 from Robert Bruce, Superintendent of Indian Affairs to John Rolph, the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 33 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 11 1st paragraph: Copy “Indian Department Quebec 15th March 1853 Sir, I am dictated by the Governor General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th ulto (Ulto: the present month) enclosing a Schedule of the proposed distribution of the Lands set apart by the SC: 106, 14th & 15th Vic among the Indians of Lower Canada, and to state that His Excellency is of opinion this arrangement with two or three slight modifications which now proceed to submit for you in consideration will prove a great boon with these Tribes.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 34 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 11, 2nd paragraph: Copy citing the first and second point: 1st The reserve of Maniwaki on Lake Desert: “might be allotted to the Tetes de Boules Nepissings and Algonquins Indians of the Ottawa and the Lake of Two Mountains, these being homogeneous tribes.” 2nd The Becancour Indians are mentioned as being “in a very destitute condition are omitted, perhaps they might be included with the St. Francis Indians at the La Tuque Reserve.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 35 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 11, 3rd paragraph, concerning St. Regis, Lake of Two Mountains and Caughnawaga Indians. “3rd, The St Regis Indians being already comparatively well provided for the tract at Doncaster County Leinster to be appointed to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and of the Lake of the Two Mountains. There for (Therefore) Signed R Bruce, Superintendent of Indian Affairs” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 36 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 12 Letter from John Rolph, Land Commissary to the Crown Land Department, Quebec, from July 14, 1853, exposing his grace upon the Indian lands surveys. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 37 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 12 Letter from John Rolph, Land Commissary to the Crown Land Department, Quebec, from July 14, 1853, exposing his grace upon the Indian lands survey. ENLARGED Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 38 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 13-14: Letter concerning Becancour, 9 February 1853. Page 15 A distribution list for the lands set apart was proposed from June 29, 1853 entitled: Schedule sharing the distribution of the case of lands set apart and appropriated under the Status 15 & 15 Vic Chapter 106 for the benefit of the Indian Tribes, Lower Canada, by John Rolph signed underneath. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 39 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 On page 15, strangely in that in this schedule, the Nipissings AKA Tetes de Boules with the Algonquins and Iroquois of Two Mountains are listed in the column “Names of the Indian Tribes” in the County of “Ottawa”, Township or Locality of “Maniwaki and River Desert”. Then, Those from Caughnawaga & St. Regis are listed in the County of “Leinster”, Township of “Doncaster and North River” “16,000 acres, a quarter behind the Township in Bedford”. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 40 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 15: Enlarged Tribes hunting on the territory between the Mattawanis (Mattawan) and the Gatineau principally residing at the Mission of Lake of Two Mountains. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 41 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 16 Crown Land Department Quebec, Schedule of the distribution of the Indian Lands, Lower Canada, 14+15 Vic Page 17-18 Letter from February 1853 concerning: Becancour, St. Francis and Sillery, from John Rolph, Commissioner of Crown Lands to the Honorable Colonel Bruce, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 42 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 19: “Encloses Schedule of the distribution Of the 230,000 acres of land acreages to the Indians of Lower Canada and recommend its being acreaged and boundaries marked.” “Original in the Council 10th May 1853.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 43 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 20 William W. H. Lee.” (C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs) exposes that the Schedule Showing the Distribution of lands under the Stature 14 and 15 Vict. Cap 106 is approved by his Superior instance. Approved by E.P Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Crown Lands on 30 April 1889. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 44 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 21 Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the statute 14 and 15 Vict. Art 106 for the benefit of Indians Tribes in Lower Canada. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 45 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 21 Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the statute 14 and 15 Vict. Art 106 for the benefit of Indians Tribes in Lower Canada. ENLARGED. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 46 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 21 Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the statute 14 and 15 Vict. Art 106 for the benefit of Indians Tribes in Lower Canada. ENLARGED. Megantic, Leinster: Plaine Doncaster, 2000 acres, Becancour Indians. North River St. Laurence, 16,000 acres, Aquatic Township in rear of Wexford, Iroquois, Caughnawaga, Montreal. NOTE: in this one: Only Caughnawaga is mentioned and not Two Mountains. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 47 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 22 Schedule Showing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the statute 14 and 15 Vict. Art 106 for the benefit of Indians Tribes in Lower Canada. ENLARGED. Megantic, Leinster: from 23 February 1858, by Joseph Wauhebe: th th Plaine Doncaster, 2000 acres, Lots N.48 123 1758 in 10 Q 688 in 12 R Lot ...8 ... Rang Becancour Indians. North River St. Laurence, 16,000 acres, Aquatic Township in rear of Wexford, Iroquois, Caughnawaga and 2 (Two) Mountains. Note: Here the Iroquois of Two Mountains were added Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 48 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 22 SCHEDULE: Shewing the distribution of the area of land set apart and appropriated under the Statute 14th and 15th Vict., Ch. 106, for the benefit of Indian Tribes in Lower Canada. County Township or No. of Description Names of Remarks. Locality. Acres. of the Indian Boundaries. Tribes. Megantic, Plaine Doncaster 2,000 Lots N.48 123 Becancour Village Surveyed. 1758 in 10th Q 688 Indians Becancour. Leinster in 12th R Lot ...8 ... North River St. Aquatic Township Iroquois of Caughnawaga Surveyed. 16,000 Laurence in rear of Wexford Caughnawaga and 2 Mountains Certified a true copy of the original of record in this Department. (Sgd.) E. E. TACHÉ, Assist.-Commissioner, Department of Crown Lands, Quebec, 30th April, 1889. Crown Land Department, Toronto, 23rd February, 1858, Ind. (Sgd.) Joseph Wauhebe, P.L. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 49 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 23 Page title: 1858: statement of the Indian Lands in Lower Canada. –Set apart by 14th and 18th, Vict. Ch. 106.- Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 50 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 24 Letter from William H. Lee (C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs) from August 9/11, 1853, Recommending appreciation of Land for Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, citing a letter from the Superior Commissary of Crown and Lands from 8 June 1853, submitting for approval a schedule showing the distributions of acres. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 51 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 25 Letter of 20/24 July 1858, Assistant, Commissioner of Crown Lands transmits plans of the tracts lot apart in the township of Mann, Doncaster, Viger, Temiscaming and Maniwaki for the Indian Tribes in Lower Canada. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 52 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 26-27 were retranscribed in typewriter on pages 28-29, double (Copy) Letter from Andrew Russell, Assistant Commissioner to Richard Theodore Pennefather, superintendent-general, from February 20, 1858 (Signed). Pennefather, was superintendent-general, was the official head of the Indian Affairs. His greatest contribution to Canada was his chairmanship of a three-man commission which conducted an inquiry from 1856 to 1858 into the Indian Department’s operations. The report of 1858 provided a complete picture of the department and of the Indian bands of the province through use of a massive number of statistics. It was noted with surprise that efforts to “civilize” the Indians were still piece-meal despite almost 30 years of such a policy. Because the Indians did not respond to attempts at “civilization,” and because of the lack of organization and funding in the department, conditions among the Indians were not good in the late 1850s.20 20 Douglas Leighton, “PENNEFATHER, RICHARD THEODORE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pennefather_richard_theodore_9E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 53 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 26-27 were retranscribed in typewriter on pages 28-29, double: (Copy) Letter from Andrew Russell, Assistant Commissioner to Richard Theodore Pennefather, superintendent-general, from February 20, 1858 (Signed). Signature on the original: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 54 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 30 Letter from Assistant of Crown Lands of the Province of Quebec to H Vankoughnet, Esquire Superintendent General of Indian Affairs from 30 April 1889. “Sir, Agreeably, to your letter of the 16th inst, please find herewith enclosed, copy of a schedule showing the proposed distribution among the different Indian Tribes in Lower Canada of Land of the extent or acres of 23 f acres etc. And also a copy of an order in Council bearing date the 9th August 1853 on the matter. I have the honor to be Sir You Obt. Servant (Perhaps Andrew Russell) Assistant Commissioner Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 55 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 31 Extract of a letter from the Indian Agent J.A. Macrae, Ottawa, from 27 August 1901 citing the previous legal contentious of white men cutting wood, exploiting the reserve of Maniwaki, “State, Character and Utilisation of the Reserve” annexed with a “Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec”, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901 annexed by Macrae, from March 3, 1902. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 56 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 32 “Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec”, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901 annexed by Macrae, from March 3, 1902. (First and last page 1/4) 1st page, 1: FIRST PAGE Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 57 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 35 “Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec”, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901 annexed by Macrae, from March 3, 1902. (Last page 4/4) 1st and last page, 4: LAST PAGE Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 58 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 36 Letter from Joseph Pope, Under-Secretary of State21 to the Secretary of Indian Affairs, 28 February 1902. 21 P. B. Waite, “POPE, Sir JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pope_joseph_15E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 59 Chap. 1 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11224, Creations of Reserves in Lower Canada 1853 Page 37 Letter from G.M. Matheson to the Secretary of Indian Affairs regarding “Memorandum on the Subject of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec”, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901 annexed by Macrae, from March 3, 1902, as previously seen on page 32, with web-link to Library and Archives Canada22, presenting a copy of the same on page 38 to 41. Pages 38 to 60 A booklet gathering several provincial precedents, jurisprudences and a memorandum linked to Ste Catherine’s Milling and Lumbering Company, from S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries from 1902. Pages 61 to 120 Maniwaki and Ouatchouan: Several Jurisprudences concerning mining companies. 22 LAC reel c-11224, consulted on March 2014 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=2082318&lang=e ng&rec_nbr_list=2082319,2082318 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 60 Previous jurisdictions: surrounding the creation of reserves 1850-1970 Major themes concerning laws and jurisdictions 1850 Adoption of An Act for the Better Protection of the Lands and Property of the Indians in Lower Canada. 1851, Act to Authorize the Setting apart of Lands for the use of Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, August 30, 1851 -In Lower Canada (Quebec), the act of 1851, entitled Act to Authorize the Setting apart of Lands for the use of Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, August 30, 1851, authorized the commissary of Crown Lands to put aside extended lands of Lower Canada for Indians. The act allowed the creations of several reserves of 230 000 acres of lands, administered by the Commissary of Indian Lands, reserved for Indians and shared in 1853: Temiskamingue, Maniwaki, Coleraine (Becancour), Doncaster (Mohawks of Kahnawake and Two Mountains), Coucoucache & Weymontachie (Atikamekw of Mauricie), Roquemont (Hurons- Wendats of Lorette, sold in 1904), Viger (Malecites of Rivière Verte, abandoned in 1869 and sold), Restigouche (Mik'maqs), Pointe-Bleue (Innu-Montagnais of Lac-Saint-Jean), Bersimis (Innu-Montagnais of the Manicouagan district) and Betsiamites (Innu-Montagnais). Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 61 -An Act for Upper Canada (Ontario) prohibited dealing with Natives, to enter their lands, and prohibited them from seizing or settling on these lands under any pretext whatsoever. -The Canadian government recognized two types of Indian lands; hunting territories and lands granted to natives directly through the missionaries. The act provided a compensation of a 1 000 pounds yearly to be distributed among the nations including those lands which have been usurped or ruined by the development of Canada. 1857 Adoption of An Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of the Indian Tribes in the Province was passed by the fifth Parliament of the Province of Canada (formally Upper Canada and Lower Canada). This was the beginning of the principle of legal emancipation, which aimed to encourage Aboriginal men to give up their status and rights in order to be integrated into the Canadian society. 1860 The Colonial Office assigned the responsibilities of Indian Affairs to the provincial governments. In Quebec, the Indian Affairs will be under the responsibilities of the department of the Crown Lands until 1867 managed under An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands. 23 23 An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands, taken from Christian Aboriginal Infrastructure Developments website–, accessed June 2, 2017 http://caid.ca/http://caid.ca/IndLanAct1860.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 62 1850-1970 Major themes concerning laws and jurisdictions 1867 Adoption of the Constitution under the British North America Act (Amended by the Constitution in 1982), uniting Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Constitutional Law of 1867 allocates to the Parliament of Canada jurisdiction over “Indians and the lands reserved to the Indians” (article 91) Canada will pursue treaty policies. 1868 The Federal Parliament adopted An Act providing for the organisation of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, and for the management of Indian and Ordinance Lands, S.C. 1868, c. 42. The Act is based on the policy of protection, assimilation and Christianization prior to confederation, bringing together all the previous Indian laws. 1869 Adoption of an amendment to the Indian Act entitled An Act for the gradual enfranchisement of Indians, the better management of Indian affairs, and to extend the provisions of the Act 31st Victoria, Chapter 42, S.C. 1869, c. 6m which gave greater powers to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. It establishes municipal administrations on reserves. It also aims to teach the Amerindians how the whole of European society works and to facilitate their assimilation within it. 1876, The Indian Act The overhaul of all laws concerning Natives gave birth to The Indian Act: aiming to assimilate aboriginals with the compulsory emancipation of women who marry non-Indians (they lose their Indian status). It also establishes a guardianship over the Indians and their lands. Cultural events are also monitored closely. Subsequent legislation will prohibit certain traditions, including Aboriginal ceremonies and dances. The administration of Indian affairs in Canada is still based on The Indian Act adopted in 1876. Considered temporary, it aimed at the assimilation of Aboriginal people into white society. Until the mid-1950s, Indian Affairs officers controlled virtually every aspect of the lives of Aboriginals on reserves. 1880 An amendment on The Indian Act allowed the "emancipation" of any Indian who obtains a university degree”. Emancipation is a renunciation of the Indian Status. 1884 An amendment to The Indian Act prohibits "potlatch", traditional ceremonies where goods are redistributed among Aboriginal peoples. This prohibition stayed in force until 1951: the return of the veterans medalists was a major point of this modification to make Canada look good in international appearance, during their appointments for past services. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 63 1850-1970 Major themes concerning laws and jurisdictions 1889 An amendment to The Indian Act allows the federal government to override opposition from Indian bands to lease their land. 1898-1899 Federal government imposes band councils to Aboriginal communities. 1922, The Quebec Lands and Forests Act of 1922, which had straight effects on Tiowero:ton. The Quebec Lands and Forests Act of 1922 authorizes the Government of Quebec to reserve lands for the use of Aboriginal peoples. Under the Act, the maximum area of Indian reserves in Quebec is increased from 230,000 acres to 330,000 acres. 1923 Creation of more northern reserves (James Bay and Northwestern Quebec). 1927 An amendment to The Indian Act prohibits aboriginal peoples from raising funds for claims without the written consent of the Superintendent to Indian Affairs. The authorization of the Department of Indian Affairs becomes necessary in order for a lawyer or other individual to be paid for the recognition of their rights by Aboriginal people. 1933 An amendment to The Indian Act forces the "emancipation" of any aboriginal person who obtains a university degree. 1960 Aboriginals get the right to vote at the federal level. 1960 With Aboriginal responsibility under federal jurisdiction, closer relations between the province of Quebec and the Aboriginal peoples began in the 1960s. 1969 Aboriginal people get the right to vote at the provincial level. (Applied in 1976 1st time.) 1970 The federal government funds Aboriginal groups and organizations to conduct research on Aboriginal treaties and rights. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 64 An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands. C.S.L.C. 1860; c. 14. 24 This legislation had a pervert impact on the lives of our ancestors considering the restrictions presented which then seemed to be relieving at first, giving eventual chances, or perhaps hopes, for further developments for our communities. Though, the restrictions and limitations incurring under the paternal hand of the Crown managed by diplomats who mainly had industrial and mining developments in mind led to creating a pass for the squatters until the to the Star Chrome wood company’s precedent in Ontario’s court which had its impact in Quebec as well for several First Nations communities, as exposed in the next chapter. Even though An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands which obtained effects in 1860, the articles exposed below, seemed void considering the provincial managements of natural resources, as in the province Quebec then since after Canadian Confederation in 1867, the responsibilities for provincial crown lands and for natural resources were assigned to the provinces (Ontario and Quebec) while the responsibility for fisheries and Indian Affairs were transferred to the new federal government. The Commissioner of Crown Lands was a member of the Executive Council for the Province of Canada responsible for administering the surveying and sale of Crown land, the forests, mines, and fisheries of the Province. From 1841 to 1867 the Department of Crown Lands was the biggest of the Province of Canada's departments. It assumed responsibility for mining in 1846, for fisheries in 1857, and for Indian Affairs in 1860. It functioned on a dual basis, with each branch divided into two separate sections, one for Upper Canada and one for Lower Canada. 25 Protection of property of Indians was an active article on the An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands of 1860, under the Article 7 entitled Appointment of a Commissioner of Indian Lands- His powers and duties. It writes: “The Governor may appoint from time to time a Commissioner of Indian Lands for Lower Canada, in whom and in whose successors by the name aforesaid, all lands or property in Lower Canada, appropriated for the use of any tribe or body of Indians, shall be vested in trust for such tribe or body, and who shall be held in law to be in the occupation and possession of any lands in Lower Canada actually occupied or possessed by any such tribe or body in common, or by any chief or member thereof or other party for the use or benefit of such tribe or body, and shall be entitled to receive and recover the rents, issues and profits of such lands and property, and shall, in and by the name aforesaid, subject to the provisions hereinafter made, exercise and defend all or any of the rights lawfully appertaining to the proprietor, possessor or occupant of such lands or property” 24 Ibid 17 25 "Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests for the Province of Ontario, For the Year ending 31st October, 1928". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 1929. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 4 October 2013. https://archive.org/stream/reportofminister192730ontauoft#page/n150/mode/1up Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 65 Also, the Art.12 of the Act entitled Powers to extend to certain lands exposed: “Tracts of land in Lower Canada, not exceeding in the whole two hundred and thirty thousand acres, may, (in so far as the same has not been already done under the Act 14, 15 Victoria, chapter 106) under orders in council to be made in that behalf be described, surveyed and set out by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and such tracts of land shall be respectively set apart and appropriated to and for the use of the several Indian tribes in Lower Canada, for which they arc respectively directed to be set apart in any order in Council, made as afore-said, and the said tracts of land shall accordingly, by virtue of this Act, and without any price or payment being required therefore, be vested in and managed by the Commissioner of Indian lauds for Lower Canada, under this Act.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 66 Chapter 2: Legal precedent: The Star Chrome Mining Case, 1920 Star Chrome Wood Company: annexed jurisdiction and history This chapter will expose the litigious positions of the Province of Quebec through funds given by the Federal Government following the CHROME MINING court precedent giving compensations to the provinces for Native Lands and reserves exploited by companies and colonisation and squatters.26 The important microfilm collection from Library and Archives Canada observed during this research exposed important themes concerning the precedent court cases, to those that affected Ste Lucie of Doncaster named Tioweroton. In that period, the province of Quebec was then led by Prime Minister Taschereau who tried by several attempts to give his conditions in order to gain an interest rate for the time spent during the procedures of buying lands exploited by European so-called Squatters then, but was turned down through the previous Federal precedents from the Province of Ontario as exposed below. In Attorney General of Quebec v. Attorney General of Canada in The Star Chrome Mining Case the Privy Council concluded that title and ownership was in the Crown in the right of the province: The Dominion Government had, of course, full authority to accept the surrender on behalf of the Crown from the Indians, but to quote once more the judgment of the Board in the St. Catherine's Milling Co.'s Case it had "neither authority nor power to take away from Quebec the interest which had been assigned to that Province by the Imperial statute of 1867.” Duff, J. for the Privy Council, described the Indian interest in the reserve lands then under consideration as "a usufructuary right only and a personal right in the sense that it is in its nature inalienable except by surrender to the Crown". The reserve lands had been "set apart and appropriated to and for the use of" the Indians pursuant to an 1851 statute and had "vested" in a Commissioner for Indian lands pursuant to an 1850 Act for the Better Protection of the Lands and Property of the Indians in Lower Canada. The decision of the Privy Council in Star Chrome Mining is not considered to require the conclusion that the Indian interest in all reserve lands is properly described as merely "usufructuary". Duff, J. observed that the language of the statute did "not point to an intention of enlarging or in any way altering the quality of the interest confirmed upon the Indians by the instrument of MINERAL RIGHTS appropriation or other source of title". 26 LAC, Microfilm reel C-11224, HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1954, 222 pages Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 67 The characterization of the Indian interest as a "usufructuary right"27 may bear upon those exceptional reserves established by executive action in Ontario and those held under original Indian title, but is not applicable to those established by agreement treaty, deed or purchase. The "quality" of the Indian interest, in the words of Duff, J. in such reserves and the mineral entitlement therein must depend upon the construction and effect accorded the particular instruments by means of which the reserves were established. It should be observed that the content of the usufructuary interest in Indian reserves has not been clearly defined in Canada. 28 United State jurisprudence has established the right to the commercial exploitation of the natural resources of the land insofar as "the right of perpetual and exclusive occupancy of the land is not less valuable than the fee". Consideration of civilian notions of the usufruct right (has the right to use-usus the property and enjoy its fruits-fructus) provides no clear analogy by which to determine Indian mineral entitlement. The concept of the right to "continue an exploitation [of mineral resources] that has already begun seems peculiarly inapplicable to the notion of the communal Indian usufruct that stretches over thousands of years in changing forms. Whatever the uncertainty of the mineral content of the usufruct generally it is suggested that it probably does not extend to precious metals. The courts are likely to adhere to a common law notion, that the transfer of gold and silver from the Crown requires a clear expression of intention to that effect. Such conclusion comports with that already suggested with respect to reserves set apart by executive act without deed, treaty or agreement. 27 Usufruct is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed a jurisdiction that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus: Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it. 28 Richard H. Bartlett, Indian Reserves in Quebec, ISBN 0-888880-140-8, 1984, 44 pages. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 68 The precedent which had its repercussions for Tiowero:ton From Ontario: the Seebold & Star Chrome Mining Case. In 1888 the Privy Council at St Catharine’s Milling and Lumber Co. V The Queen, 14 AC 46 that under the British North America Act, section 109, the title of lands in Ontario, reserved to First Nations through the Royal Proclamation of 1763, was assigned by the Crown a right of the provinces subject to Indian interests. Upon the surrender of these lands through treaties, the full beneficial interest assigned to the Crown in the right of the province. The decision speculated difficulties for the federal instance in the establishment of Indian reserves following surrenders of the Indian title by treaties as well as the disposition of reserves concerning surrenders under the Indian Act. These complexities were observed in Ontario Mining Company v. Seybold, [1903] AC 73 by the Privy Council in litigation between claimants relying upon letters patent issued by Canada and a claimant relying upon letters patent issued by Ontario. The land had been surrendered by the First Nation under Treaty #3, set apart as reserve and then surrendered for sale under the Indian Act for the benefits of First nations. The Privy Council exposed the letters patent issued by Ontario which expressed: “Lord Davey Their Lordship agree with the Courts below that the decision of this case is a corollary from that of the St Catharine’s Milling Co. V. Reg. The argument of the learned counsel for the appellants at their Lordship’s bar was that at the date of the letters patent issued by the Dominion officers to their predecessors in title the land in question was held in trust for sale for the exclusive benefit of the Indians, and the province of Ontario. This argument assumes that the Reserve 38 B was rightly set out and appropriated by the Dominion officers as against the Government of Ontario, and ignore the effect of the surrender of 1873 as declared in the previous decision of this Board. By s.91 of the British North America Act, 1867, the Parliament of Canada has exclusive legislative authority over “Indians and lands Reserved for the Indians.” But this did not vest in the Government of the Dominion any proprietary rights in such lands, or any power by legislation to appropriate lands which by the surrender of the indian title had become the free public lands of the province as an Indian reserve, in infringement of the proprietary rights of the province. Their Lordship repeat for the purpose of the present argument what was said by Lord Herschell in delivering the judgement of this Board in the Fisheries Case as to the broad distinction between proprietary rights and legislative jurisdictions. Let it be assumed that the Government of the province taking advantage of the surrender of 1873, came at least under an honourable engagement to fulfill the terms on the faith of which the surrender was made, and, therefore, to concur with the Dominion Government in appropriating certain undefined portions of the surrendered lands as Indian Reserves. The result, however, is that the choice and location of the lands to be so appropriated could only be efficiently made by the joint action of the two Governments. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 69 In 1920, the Privy Council was required to consider the title to lands set apart for the use of Indians in Quebec pursuant to an 1851 statute and subsequently surrendered for sale pursuant to the Indian Act for the benefit of the Indians. Canada argued that title under the 1851 statute was conferred to the Commissioner of Indian Lands, who held the entire beneficial interest for the Indians. Canada accordingly argued that title did not vest in the province under section 109 of the British North America Act. Previous court cases and jurisdictions concerning milling and lumber companies leading to legal precedents in the Maritimes, in Ontario, in Manitoba and in Quebec.29 The claims to ownership of an interest in resources on Indian reserves of the Province of Ontario is founded upon section 109 of the British North America Act: All lands, mines, minerals and royalties belonging to the several provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick at the Union, and all sums then due or payable for such lands, mines, minerals or royalties shall belong to the several provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in which the same are or arise, subject to any trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any interest other than that of the Province in the same. In St. Catherine's Milling and Lumber Co. v. The Queen in 1889 30, the Privy Council declared that the effect of Treaty #3 was to vest the plenum dominium in the Crown in the right of Ontario with respect to the lands in the Province thereby ceded: The ceded territory was at the time of the union, land vested in the Crown, subject to "an interest other than that of the Province in the same", within the meaning of section 109; and must now belong to Ontario in terms of that clause. 31 32 29 -St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R. 1886 CanLII 30, 13 Ont. App. R. 148 (20 April 1886), Court of Appeal (Ontario, Canada) -(1885), 10 O.R. 196 -St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen[1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888) - "Ontario-Manitoba Boundary Case". 22 July 1884. Retrieved 18 January 2013. - "Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889, 52-53 Vict., c. 28 (U.K.)". 12 August 1889. Retrieved 18 January 2013. - The Ontario Mining Company Limited and The Attorney General for the Dominion of Canada v The Attorney General for the Province of Ontario [1902] UKPC 46, [1903] AC 73 (12 November 1902) (on appeal from Canada)as approved by An Act for the settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Reserve Lands, S.C. 1924, c. 48 and The Indian Lands Act, 1924, S.O. 1924, c. 15 -Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Act, S.C. 1988, c. 39 , with corresponding provincial approval in the Indian Lands Agreement Confirmation Act, 1989, S.O. 1989, c. 26 (repealed in error by the Legislation Act, 2006, s. 98(3), as enacted by the Access to Justice Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 21, Sch. F , and subsequently reenacted by the Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Confirmation Act, 2010, S.O. 2010, c. 1, Sch. 10 ) 30 St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen[1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888) 31 Ibid 17 32 MINERAL RIGHTS ON INDIAN RESERVES IN ONTARIO RICHARD H. BARTLETT, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W0, 1983. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 70 The precedents which had effect for Doncaster-Tioweroton 33 History of the precedents created by The Star Chrome decision, from: 2nd instance, Ontario Court of Appeals St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R., 148 Vid. S.C. 13 S.C.R. 577 Date: 1886-04-20 148 Vid. S.C. 13 S.C.R. 577. 3rd instance Supreme Court of Canada St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R, 13 S.C.R. 577, Date: 1887-06-20 The St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company, (Defendants) Appellants; And The Queen, on the Information of the Attorney General for the Province of Ontario, (Plaintiff) Respondent. St Catharines Milling and Lumber Co v R was the leading case on Aboriginal title in Canada for more than 80 years. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, affirming a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada, held that Aboriginal title over land was allowed only at the Crown's pleasure, and could be taken away at any time. This case, involving Ojibway Treaty No. 3 which had never been previously litigated before any court, is a leading decision in Canada on the differences between the division of legislative powers and property rights under the Constitution of Canada. Background At issue were treaty lands thought to be within Rupert's Land when Canada entered into Treaty 3 in 1873. Following the Ontario-Manitoba Boundary Case, the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act 1889 placed about two-thirds of the treaty area in Ontario. Canada believed that it was entitled under the Treaty, and its legislative authority under section 91 (24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 for "Indians and Lands reserved for the Indians", to administer Treaty lands. The lumber company was granted a federal permit to a timber berth on Lake Wabigoon, and that permit was challenged by the Province. The courts below In 1885, Chancellor Boyd of the Chancery Division held that the phrase "Lands reserved for the Indians" referred only to “Indian Reserves”, and "such words do not cover lands which have never been the subject of treaty or surrender, and as to which the Legislature or executive Government have never specifically appropriated or 'reserved' for the Indian population." In appeal, the Court of Appeal affirmed this, as well as stating that the lands transferred by the 1889 Act, other than that covered by Indian reserves, vested in the Crown in right of Ontario. This was affirmed on appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. 33 CANLI website, Canada, –, accessed June 2, 2017 https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1887/1887canlii3/1887canlii3.html Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 71 At the Privy Council The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling was affirmed by the Board. Lord Watson identified the source of Aboriginal title as the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and he noted: It was suggested in the course of the argument for the Dominion, that inasmuch as the proclamation recites that the territories thereby reserved for Indians had never 'been ceded to or purchased by' the Crown, the entire property of the land remained with them. That inference is, however, at variance with the terms of the [Proclamation], which show that the tenure of the Indians was a personal and usufructuary right (has the right to use-usus the property and enjoy its fruits-fructus), dependent upon the good will of the Sovereign. The lands reserved are expressly stated to be “parts of Our dominions and territories;” and it is declared to be the will and pleasure of the sovereign that, “for the present,” they shall be reserved for the use of the Indians, as their hunting grounds, under his protection and dominion. 34 There was a great deal of discussion at the Bar with respect to the precise quality of the Indian right, but their Lordships do not consider it necessary to express any opinion upon the point. It appears to them to be sufficient for the purposes of this case that there has been all along vested in the Crown a substantial and paramount estate, underlying the Indian title, which became a plenum dominium whenever that title was surrendered or otherwise extinguished. Impact Other issues arose from this decision. The Privy Council said, for example, that Ontario must relieve Canada of its obligations under the treaty since Ontario had the benefit of it, but subsequent litigation by Canada failed on that point too. In Ontario Mining Co. v. Seybold, the Privy Council extended the rule to deny the Indians any beneficial interest in the reserves that had been set apart for them under the Treaty. It took a series of federal/provincial agreements, culminating in the Canada/Ontario Indian Reserve Lands Agreement, to provide an interim solution to the problems created these decisions. A further resolution was reached in 1986, with the passage of the Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Act. Even though some of Lord Watson's observations were later varied by the Supreme Court of Canada in Guerin v. The Queen, this case is the starting point for an understanding of Aboriginal law in Canada.35 34 Bradford Morse, Aboriginal Peoples and the Law, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Feb 15, 1985, page 58. 35 Ibid 21. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 72 Ontario: An Act for the settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Reserve Lands, 1924 36 S.C. 1924, c. 48, Assented to 1924-07-19 An Act for the settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Reserve Lands His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Marginal note: Agreement binding, and Governor in Council authorized to carry out its provisions 1 The agreement between the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario, in the terms set out in the schedule hereto, shall be as binding on the Dominion of Canada as if the provisions thereof had been set forth in an Act of this Parliament, and the Governor in Council is hereby authorized to carry out the provisions of the said agreement. SCHEDULE Memorandum of Agreement made in triplicate this 24th day of March 1924. Between the Government of the Dominion of Canada, acting herein by the Honourable Charles Stewart, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, of the first part, And the Government of the Province of Ontario, acting herein by the Honourable James Lyons, Minister of Lands and Forests, and the Honourable Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, of the second part. Whereas from time to time treaties have been made with the Indians for the surrender for various considerations of their personal and usufructuary rights to territories now included in the Province of Ontario, such considerations including the setting apart for the exclusive use of the Indians of certain defined areas of land known as Indian Reserves; And Whereas, except as to such Reserves, the said territories were by the said treaties freed, for the ultimate benefit of the Province of Ontario, of the burden of the Indian rights, and became subject to be administered by the Government of the said Province for the sole benefit thereof; And Whereas the surrender of the whole or some portion of a Reserve by the band of Indians to whom the same was allotted has, in respect of certain Reserves in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, been under consideration in certain appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the respective rights of the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario, upon 36 Justice and Law Department website, Canada, –, accessed June 2, 2017 http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-7.2/FullText.html Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 73 such surrenders being made, depend upon the law as declared by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and otherwise affecting the Reserve in question, and upon the circumstances under which it was set off; And Whereas on the 7th day of July, 1902, before the determination of the last two of the said appeals, it had been agreed between counsel for the Governments of the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario, respectively, that, as a matter of policy and convenience, and without thereby affecting the constitutional or legal rights of either of the said Governments, the Government of the Dominion of Canada should have full power and authority to sell, lease and convey title in fee simple or for any less estate to any lands forming part of any Reserve thereafter surrendered by the Indians, and that any such sales, leases or other conveyances as had theretofore been made by the said Government should be confirmed by the Province of Ontario, the Dominion of Canada, however, holding the proceeds of any lands so sold, leased or conveyed subject, upon the extinction of the Indian interest therein and so far as such proceeds had been converted into money, to such rights of the Province of Ontario as might exist by law; And Whereas by the said agreement it was further provided that, as to the Reserves set aside for the Indians under a certain treaty made in 1873 and recited in the Schedule to the Dominion Statute, 54-55 Victoria, chapter 5, and the Statute of the Province of Ontario, 54 Victoria, chapter 3, the precious metals should be considered to form part thereof and might be disposed of by the Dominion of Canada in the same way and subject to the same conditions as the land in which they existed, and that the question whether the precious metals in the lands included in Reserves set aside under other treaties were to be considered as forming part thereof or not, should be expressly left for decision in accordance with the circumstances and the law governing each; Now This Agreement Witnesseth that the parties hereto, in order to settle all outstanding questions relating to Indian Reserves in the Province of Ontario, have mutually agreed, subject to the approval of the Parliament of Canada and the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, as follows: 1- All Indian Reserves in the Province of Ontario heretofore or hereafter set aside, shall be administered by the Dominion of Canada for the benefit of the band or bands of Indians to which each may have been or may be allotted; portions thereof may, upon their surrender for the purpose by the said band or bands, be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by letters patent under the Great Seal of Canada, or otherwise under the direction of the Government of Canada, and the proceeds of such sale, lease or other disposition applied for the benefit of such band or bands, provided, however, that in the event of the band or bands to which any such Reserve has been allotted becoming extinct, or if, for any other reason, such Reserve, or any portion thereof is declared by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to be no longer required for the benefit of the said band or bands, the same shall thereafter be administered by, Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 74 and for the benefit of, the Province of Ontario, and any balance of the proceeds of the sale or other disposition of any portion thereof then remaining under the control of the Dominion of Canada shall, so far as the same is not still required to be applied for the benefit of the said band or bands of Indians, be paid to the Province of Ontario, together with accrued unexpended simple interest thereon. 2- Any sale, lease or other disposition made pursuant to the provisions of the last preceding paragraph may include or may be limited to the minerals (including the precious metals) contained in or under the lands sold, leased or otherwise disposed of, but every grant shall be subject to the provisions of the statute of the Province of Ontario entitled “The Bed of Navigable Waters Act”, Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1914, chapter thirty-one. 3- Any person authorized under the laws of the Province of Ontario to enter upon land for the purpose of prospecting for minerals thereupon shall be permitted to prospect for minerals in any Indian Reserve upon obtaining permission so to do from the Indian Agent for such Reserve and upon complying with such conditions as may be attached to such permission, and may stake out a mining claim or claims on such Reserve. 4- No person not so authorized under the laws of the Province of Ontario shall be given permission to prospect for minerals upon any Indian Reserve. 5- The rules governing the mode of staking and the size and number of mining claims in force from time to time in the Province of Ontario or in the part thereof within which any Indian Reserve lies shall apply to the staking of mining claims on any such Reserve, but the staking of a mining claim upon any Indian Reserve shall confer no rights upon the person by whom such claim is staked except such as may be attached to such staking by the Indian Act or other law relating to the disposition of Indian Lands. 6 -Except as provided in the next following paragraph, one-half of the consideration payable, whether by way of purchase money, rent, royalty or otherwise, in respect of any sale, lease or other disposition of a mining claim staked as aforesaid, and, if in any other sale, lease or other disposition hereafter made of Indian Reserve lands in the Province of Ontario, any minerals are included, and the consideration for such sale, lease or other disposition was to the knowledge of the Department of Indian Affairs affected by the existence or supposed existence in the said lands of such minerals, one-half of the consideration payable in respect of any such other sale, lease or other disposition, shall forthwith upon its receipt from time to time, be paid to the Province of Ontario; the other half only shall be dealt with by the Dominion of Canada as provided in the paragraph of this agreement numbered 1. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 75 7- The last preceding paragraph shall not apply to the sale, lease or other disposition of any mining claim or minerals on or in any of the lands set apart as Indian Reserves pursuant to the hereinbefore recited treaty made in 1873, and nothing in this agreement shall be deemed to detract from the rights of the Dominion of Canada touching any lands or minerals granted or conveyed by His Majesty for the use and benefit of Indians by letters patent under the Great Seal of the Province of Upper Canada, of the Province of Canada or of the Province of Ontario, or in any minerals vested for such use and benefit by the operation upon any such letters patent of any statute of the Province of Ontario. 8- No water-power included in any Indian Reserve, which in its natural condition at the average low stage of water has a greater capacity than five hundred horsepower, shall be disposed of by the Dominion of Canada except with the consent of the Government of the Province of Ontario and in accordance with such special agreement, if any, as may be made with regard thereto and to the division of the purchase money, rental or other consideration given therefore. 9- Every sale, lease or other disposition heretofore made under the Great Seal of Canada or otherwise under the direction of the Government of Canada of lands which were at the time of such sale, lease or other disposition included in any Indian Reserve in the Province of Ontario, is hereby confirmed, whether or not such sale, lease or other disposition included the precious metals, but subject to the provisions of the aforesaid statute of the Province of Ontario entitled “The Bed of Navigable Waters Act”, and the consideration received in respect of any such sale lease or other disposition shall be and continue to be dealt with by the Dominion of Canada in accordance with the provisions of the paragraph of this agreement numbered 1, and the consideration received in respect of any sale, lease or other disposition heretofore made under the Great Seal of the Province of Ontario, or under the direction of the Government of the said Province, of any lands which at any time formed part of any Indian Reserve, shall remain under the exclusive control and at the disposition of the Province of Ontario. 10- Nothing herein contained, except the provision for the application of “The Bed of Navigable Waters Act” aforesaid, shall affect the interpretation which would, apart from this agreement, be put upon the words of any letters patent heretofore or hereafter issued under the Great Seal of Canada or the Great Seal of the Province of Ontario, or of any lease or other conveyance, or of any contract heretofore or hereafter made under the direction of the Government of Canada or of the Province of Ontario. In Witness Whereof these presents have been signed by the parties thereto the day and year above written. Signed on behalf of the Government of Canada by the Honourable Charles Stewart, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, in the presence of DUNCAN C. SCOTT. Signed on behalf of the Government of the Province of Ontario by the Honourable James Lyons, Minister of Lands and Forests, and by the Honourable Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, in the presence of W. C. CAIN. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 76 The Ontario precedent which had an impact on Tioweroton actually originated from a decision of a “Judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the Appeal of the Dominion of Canada v. The Province of Ontario, from the Supreme Court of Canada; delivered the 29th July 1910.” Pages 1-2 /6 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 77 Pages 3-4 /6 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 78 Pages 5-6 /6 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 79 Archives: Star Chrome Jurisdiction 1920-1921 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 1853-1934.37 other important themes from the second part of the documents from the same reel as the previous chapter, the HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, are exposing the various litigious position of the Province of Quebec through moneys given by the Federal Government following the CHROME MINING court precedent giving compensations to the provinces for Native Lands and reserves exploited by companies and colonisation and squatters. For instance, a very important correspondence on page 90, from the Statutes of Quebec of 1927, Chapter 27 of An Act respecting the granting of titles to settlers for certain lots comprised in the Indian reserves, disappropriated is exposed following the court case of The Star Chrome Decision, clarifying the positions of all parties in during the procedures. Of course, several important names of politicians; deputies and ministers and other figures exposed though these correspondences are described in alphabetical order in the annexes at the end following the conclusion. Edmund Leslie (E.L.) Newcombe, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa. John D. McLean, Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs Elzear Miville-Deschene, Deputy Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec W.A. Orr, Officer in charge for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lands and Timber Branch, Duncan C. Scott, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs 37 LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (222 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95,452-1. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 80 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 1 -Star Chrome case Correspondence from E.L. Newcombe, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa. to D.C. Scott, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, from 23 December 1920. Doc: 560124 “Ottawa, 23rd December, 1920. Dear Mr Scott: I am sending you herewith copy of the Judgement of the Committee of the Privy Council in the Star Chrome case, which I find very disappointing and unsatisfactory. According to the course of the argument and observations of their Lordships at the hearing I anticipated that the judgment would uphold the Dominion right to sell the reserves, but unfortunately it transpired otherwise, and I am afraid this judgment will be found seriously to affect many Indian titles. Yours faithfully, E.L. Newcombe D.M.J.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 81 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 2-3 (Identical, copies) Letter from D.C. Scott, Superintendent of Indian Affairs to E.L. Newcombe, Deputy Minister of Justice from 29 December 1920. “December 29, 1920. Dear Me Newcombe,- I have your note of the 23rd instant, inclo- sing a copy of the Judgement of the Committee of the Privy Council in the Star Chrome Case. I share your disap- pointment in this matter. Quebec has followed up its advantage by asking for a list of the Indian reserves “ which have ceased to exist as such, as a result if the “ recent judgement of the Privy Council, together with a “ list showing the late lots sold is the reserves at large “ the name of the grantee, the prize, area and date of “ Each Grant.” I have not acknowledged this letter of dealt with it, pending the receipt of a copy of the Judgement, and an opportunity of discussing the matter with you. I would be glad if you could give me an appointment next week. A question has arisen with reference to the claim of the Pottawattomie Indians before the Pecuniary Claims Commission which I also wish to discuss. Yours sincerely Duncan C. Scott Deputy Superintendent General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 82 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 4 Letter from Elzear Miville-Deschene Deputy Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec L.33855 /20, asking J.D. McLean, Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs for a list of the Indians Reserves which have ceased to exist as a result of the recent Judgment of the Privy Council, on December 2nd, 1920. Doc-page 548562 “Department of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec L.33855 /20 December 2nd, 1920. Sir Re the Indian Reserves. Will you be so kind as to send as a list of the Indian reserves which have ceased to exist as such, as a result of the recent judgment of the Privy Council, together with a list showing the lots sold in the reserves at large, the name of the grantees, the price, area and date of each grant. I have the honour to be Sir. Your obedient servant. El. Miville-Deschene Deputy Minister.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 83 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 5 Letter-Memo from W.A. Orr Officer in charge for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lands and Timber Branch, to his superior the Superintendent Duncan Scott from January 20, 1921 exposing certain questions concerning the clarification of the repercussions of the said judgement. On the right corner file number 95, 452 “Ottawa, January 20, 1921 Memo The Deputy Minister.- In regard to the Judgement delivered by the Privy Council in the Quebec lands case, I think it would be well to have legal advice on the following points:- 1.Does the Judgement affect only lands in Quebec set aside under 14 & 15 Vic. Or lands on other reserves in the said Province, or in other provinces? 2.Can the Department sell timber or minerals on any of those reserves after surrender thereof by the Indians? 3. Can Indians be enfranchised and granted patents for their lands? 4. Can the Department continue leasing lands for the benefit of individual Indian owners? (written beside: “those band under surrender”) W.A. Orr Officer in charge.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 84 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 8 Letter from February 2nd, 1921 from Duncan Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to E.L. Newcombe, Deputy Minister of Justice, asking details about the jurisdictions encountered in the Star Chrome decision of 1920. On the right corner file number 95, 452 “2nd February, 1921 Dear Mr Newcombe, I beg to refer you to the recent judge-ment of the Committee of the Privy Council in the Star Chrome Case and to ask for your views on the following points:- 1.Does this judgement affect only Lands in the Province of Quebec set aside under the provisions of 12-14 Vict. 1850 C.42 and 14-15 Vict. 1851 O.106 of the Statutes passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada, or dies it affect as well Lands on other reserves within the said Province or any other Provinces? 2.Has this Department authority to sell timber or mineral on any reserves affected by this Judgement after surrender thereof by the Indians? 3.Can Indians be enfranchised and receive patents for their lands as provided by the Indian Act in respect of reserves affected by this judgment? 4.Has the Superintendent General authority to lease on such reserves lands which the Indians may surrender for the purpose. Your truly Duncan Scott, Deputy, Superintendent General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 85 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 9 From the Statutes of Quebec of 1927, Chapter 27 of An Act respecting the granting of titles to settlers for certain lots comprised in the Indian reserves, disappropriated is exposed following the court case of The Star Chrome Decision. Document-page 95452 “Statutes of Quebec 1927 An Act respecting the granting of titles to settlers for certain lots comprised in the Indian reserves, disappropriated. st (Assented to, the 1 of April, 1927) THEREAS in the suit before the Privy Council, of the Attorney-General for the Province of Quebec and others, appellants and the Attorney-General for the Dominion of Canada and another, respondents, it was decided that the lands reserved for the use of certain Indian tribes comprised within the boundaries of the Province of Quebec, which have been disappropriated from such use, belong in ownership to the said Province of Quebec; Whereas the settlers, who hold, in good faith, under titled granted by the Governor of Canada, the Government of Canada or a minister of such Government, for agricultural purposes, lots taken from the lands so reserves, do not possess a valid title or owner ship and are exposed to eviction and other inconveniences result- ing from such defect in title; Whereas it is in the public interest that such settlers should receive legal titles from the competent authority; Therefore, His Majesty, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec enacts as follow: 1.The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may recommend the gratuitous issuance of letters patent in favour of any settler who is holder for agricultural purposes of one or more lots forming part of the Indian reserve disappropriated as such, when such holder have any title from Governor of Canada, the Government of Canada or a minister of such Government, provided that any sum remaining due by the holders of such lots under the title granted by the federal authority be paid by the Government of this Province. 2. The letters patent issued in accordance with the preceed- ing section shall be subject to the terms, conditions and re- strictions contained in ordinary letters patent relating to the concession of lands suitable for cultivation, and shall in every other respect be governed by the laws applicable thereto. 3.This act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 86 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 10-11 In a letter intended to Indian Affairs Accountant F.H. Paget, the Supreme Court Case involving Star Chrome Mining Co. V. Rosalie Thompson from 23 November 1920 is exposed with the concerning points which created the precedent. Document-page 95452 Written: 707548y Page 1 “Ottawa, 15th February, 1921 Memo Mr. Paget, Star Chrome Mining Co. V. Dame Rosalie Thompson. The following quotation from Judgement of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council delivered the 23rd November, 1920, will explain the circumstances under which the Dominion Government become involved in the suit:- “By an Order of the Governor of the late Province of Canada in Council, of the 9th August, 1853, pursuant to a statute of that province (14 and 15 Vict.c.106), the pro- visions of which are hereinafter explained, certain lands, including those whose title is in question on this appeal, vic., Lots 6, 7 and 8, in the thirteenth range of the town- ship of Coleraine in the county of Megantic, were appropri- ated for the benefit of the Indian tribes of Lower Canada, these particularly mentioned being set apart for the tribe called the Abenakis of Becancour. By an instrument of sur- render of the 14th February, 1882, which was accepted by an order of the Governor-General of Canada in Council of the 3rd April, 1882, this tribe surrendered (inter alia) the lots above specified to Her Majesty the Queen; and on the 2nd of July, 1857, the Dominion Government professed to grant them by letters patent to Cyrice Tetu, of Montreal, those interest in the past on his death to Dame Caroline Tetu. On the 10th April, 1895, the lands in question, having been seized in execution by the sheriff of the district of Arthabaska, under a judgement against Dame Caroline Tetu, were sold by the sheriff to one Joseph Lamarche, whose title was eventually acquired by the respondent Dame Rosalie ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 87 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 10-11 In a letter intended to Indian Affairs Accountant F.H. Paget, the Supreme Court Case involving Star Chrome Mining Co. V. Rosalie Thompson from 23 November 1920 is exposed with the concerning points which created the precedent. Document-page 95452 Written: 707548y Page 2 "...Thompson, The appellants, the Star Chrome Mining Company, Limited, having purchased the property from the respondent Dame Rosalie Thompson, in February, 1907, the Company took proceedings against the vendor, claiming recision of the sale and demanding repayment of the purchase money with damages, on the ground that the property was in the Crown in the right of the Province of Quebec, and that the vendor was consequently without title at the time of the sale. The action of the appellants having come on trial on the 4th June 1909, the trial was adjourned, and on the 29th June, 1912, an order was made suggesting that the Dominion Government and the Government of Quebec, should in- tervene for the purpose of determining the controversy touching the authority of the Dominion Government to dispose of the lands in question on behalf of the Crown. On the 2nd October, 1914, the appellant, the Attorney-General of Quebec, intervened, claiming by his intervention that the grant to Cyrice Tetu, of the 2nd July, 1887, was null and void, on the ground that the lands which the grant professed to dispose of were the property of the Crown in the right of Quebec, and on the 7th October, 1914, the respondent, the Attorney General of Quebec by a contestation in which he maintained the validity of the grant to Cyrice Tetu. On the 7th May, 1917, the Superior Court pronounced judgment re- jecting the intervention of the Attorney-General of Quebec, and the appeal from this judgment was dismissed by the Court of Kings Bench on the 20th November, 1917, Mr Justice Lavergne dissenting.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 88 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 12 Later on March 31th 1921, Duncan C. Scott the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs sent a letter to the minister of Justice E.C. Macombe exposing that he did not receive the his last letter exposing his views and points on the last judgment of the Star Chrome wood Company. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 89 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Pages 13-18 One of the Ontario precedent which had an impact on Tioweroton actually originated from a decision of a “Judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the Appeal of the Dominion of Canada v. The Province of Ontario, from the Supreme Court of Canada; delivered the 29th July 1910” about an Ojibway Treaty of 1873. Pages 1-2 /6 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 90 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Pages 15-16 Pages 3-4 /6 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 91 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Pages 17-18 (page 19 is a double of page 18) Pages 5-6 /6 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 92 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 23 (pages 20-22 are letters from Privy Council of the Dominion of Canada exposing the receptions of the letters between Deputy Minister of Lands and Forest Miville-Deschene and J.C MacLean Esquire at Indian Affairs from April 12, 1921.) Later on May 7th 1921, the Minister of Justice E.C. Macombe asks Duncan C. Scott the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa if the precedent from Star Chrome wood Company Ontario touches Qc Jurisdictions. The Deputy Minister of Justice Ottawa “Ottawa, May 7th, 1921. 242/21 Dear Mr. Scott, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd of February last submitting the following questions for advice:- 1-Does this judgment affect only lands in the Province of Quebec set aside under the provisions of the 13-14 Vict. 1850 c.42, and 14-15 Vict. 1851, C. 106, of the Statutes passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada, or does it affect as well lands on other reserves within the said Province or any other Province? 2-Has this Department authority to sell timber or minerals on any reserves affected by this judgment after surrender thereof by the Indians: 3-Can Indians be enfranchised and receive patents for their lands as provided by the Indian Act in respect of reserves affected by this judgment? 4-Has the Superintendent General authority to lease on such reserves lands which the Indians may surrender for that purpose? In reply I beg to state that the decision in the Star Chrome case is of general application affecting the powers which have been heretofore commonly exercised by the Dominion in relation to all Indian Reserves in which the province retains a beneficial interest and that consequently it would be unjust to the Indians in such cases to accept surrenders from them because it would soon ....” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 93 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 24 Page 2 “... to follow from the decisions of the Judicial Committee that the surrender of the Indian title, even when in trust for sale, operates to free the surrendered lands from burthen38 of the Indian title for the benefit of the Province, without apparently affording the Indians any right of compensation. A regards the third inquiry, I may observe that it is only a logical application of the principles enunciated to hold that an Indian cannot upon enfranchise- ment receive a grant of any greater interest than the band in common had in that particular part of the reserve which is located to the enfranchised Indian. It would be inadvisable to issue any grant or title which would free the land from its character of Indian reserve and probably an exclusive location is all that could safely be permitted. As regards sales of timber and minerals I would still contend that these are matters of administration within the exclusive authority of the Dominion and that the Province has no right to question these sales. Leases also I think might be negotiated so long as the Indian title is not surr- endered but I would hesitate to advise that the Indians may for any purpose safely surrender. As to timber lands, section 73 of the Indian Act, and on, provides that the Superintendent General or any officer or agent authorized by his to that effect may grant licenses to out trees on granted Indian lands apparently without any necessity for a surrender from the Indians; but as regards minerals it appears by sections 48 and 51 that .....” 38 Burthen: etymology: the terms that which is borne with difficulty; obligation; carrying capacity. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 94 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 25 Page 3 “... a surrender is required before minerals can be alienated and I would suggest that the lot be amended so as to provide for working the minerals without surrender. With respect to Ontario reserves my agreement with Mr. Blake would presumably continue to govern and by that contention of the Dominion which has now been overruled was to a large extent conceded. Yours truly E.C. Macombe Deputy Minister of Justice.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 95 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 26 A letter of 12 September 1922 from Odjick, Algonquin Chief to the Clerk of the Privy Council in Ottawa asking to get a copy of the Statute 14 & 15 Vic, Chapter 106 on the 9 th of August 1853, mentioning: “It is in reference to the granting of reserves to Indians.” -Note that Odjick was often mentioned in several books from Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, though censuses and parish registers. Page-564759 Document 9545-2 “River Desert, Sept. 12th / 22 To the Clerk of The Privy Council Ottawa, Ont. Sir, Would you please send me worded article under Statute 14 & 15 Vic, Chapter 106 on the 9th of August in The year 1853. I think it is in reference to the granting of reserves to Indians Yours, Obediant servant Wm Odjick River Desert P.O. Box 82” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 96 Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction 1923-1933 39 This chapter includes Taschereau, Quebec’s Prime Minister’s reluctance to see Ottawa manage the “Surrenders” compensation’s, by putting the emphasis on managing the funds from its office in Quebec. On 11 November 1927 from W. Stuart Edward, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs attempting to calm the tension created towards Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec, considering the reluctance of Quebec to collaborate with the Star Chrome Court Decision. Then on 13 September 1928 from Charles Lanctot, the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that he is now disposed of granting to money back to squatters under the conditions and administration of the provincial government, once they receive the funds necessary. Latter a letter from 1 March 1929 from Prime Minister of Quebec, Taschereau, is exposed in an attempt to give his conditions in order to gain an interest rate from the Federal, in which he wrote: “The ultimate interest of the Province is fully protected by the agreement and it is provided that when an Indian band become extinct the monies and lands formerly the property of such band, remaining in the custody of the Department, shall be returned to the Province. The values in Indian reserves in the Province of Ontario exceed those in the Province of Quebec and we are still hopeful that Quebec will grant like terms to the Dominion for the benefit of the Indians. What the Dominion asks is that the Province shall not take from the Indians monies received from the sale of these lands and shall give the Indians the full use under a statutory agreement of the reserve lands set apart for them, which area considering the extent of the Province, is negligible. The funds in hand and in prospect in comparison to the wealth of the Province may also be considered relatively unimportant. If the Province still wishes to take the legal position it follows that this Department will not be able to ask the Indians for any surrenders of land, and from our standpoint, it is not considered that such a position of affairs be in the interests of the development of localities adjacent to Indian Reserves.[...]” 39 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C- 11224, (222 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95,452-1. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 97 Until April 19, 1932, Taschereau maintains his position not agreeing to cease to management of lands and on May 12, 1932, the Minister put the emphasis on the fact that the precedent that occured in other provinces had its jurisdiction in Quebec as well. On page 101, on a copy of the letter from Superintendent General Thomas J. Murphy to Hugh Guthrie, E.C., Minister of Justice on May 18, 1932, he exposes the importance to put the emphasis on the amount expected from the Provincial responsibles in Quebec, Prime Minister Taschereau. Murphy enclosed a memorandum exposing: “MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR CANADA, Ottawa, May 18, 1932 My Dear Colleague, I discussed with your Deputy, Mr. Edwards, a few days ago to claim the Honourable Mr. Taschereau, on behalf of the Province of Quebec, for the payment of all monies received by the Dominion Government from the sale of surrendered Indian lands in that Province, the claim being based on the judgment of the Privy Council in 1920 in what is known as the Star Chrome Mining Company case. I am enclosing, herewith, a memorandum dealing with the history of the cases and a recommendation to Council providing for the payment to the Province of Quebec of the amount which, in the opinion of the department of Indian Affairs -, ans, I believe, concurred in by your Department- the Dominion Government properly owes to the Province. As the Prime Minister is anxious that this matter be dealt with at once, I should like to have your opinion some time during the day as to what amount may properly be held as owing to the Province of Quebec by the Dominion Government in respect of the judgment of the Privy Council in the Star Chrome Mining Company case. Further, I should like you to advise me how, and in what manner, such monies can be paid to the Province. If the recommendation to Council is not in order, would you kindly have your officers draft one which will be in accordance with your judgment.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 98 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 30: Page 29, translated page 30, copy page 31. Correspondences end page 33. Lawyer office Godin Dussault & Cadotte from September 21, 1923 asking the Minister of Indian Affairs for a property granted in 1915 asking for cadastre plans. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 99 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 34- followed by reception of letter, page 35. A letter from May 31, 1924, from Quebec from C.S. Bernier Superintendent of Department of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec to Superintendent Duncan Scott Esquire of Indian Affairs directed by Honoré Mercier, Minister of Lands and Forests about a precedent containing the Act respecting land set for Indians. Department of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec 7101/24. Quebec, May 31st, 1924 “Dear Sir, I am directed by the Honourable Honoré Mercier, Minister of Lands and Forests, to forward you the Statutes of Quebec 12 Geo.V. 1922, containing the act respecting lands set apart for Indians. You will find this act at chapter 37. I have the honour to be Sir, Your Obediant servant, C.S. Bernier Ass’t-Superintendent.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 100 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 40 In Montreal, September 28th, 1925, Campbell, McMaster & Couture Law firm for the settlers asking the Superintendent of Indian Affairs to validate the holders of lands (settlers) “which were formerly granted by your department.” Campbell, McMaster & Couture Advocates and Solicitors Montreal, September 28th, 1925. “Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, Ont. Dear Sir, We were informed verbally by your Department that negotiations were proceeding between the Dominion Government and the Province of Quebec with a view to settling the unsatisfactory position created by the judgment of the privy Council in the Starchrome Mining case. Will you kindly inform me if there has been any satisfactory results to these negotiations or if anything has been done to validate the titles of the holders of lands of Quebec, which were formerly granted by your Department. Yours very truly, Campbell, McMaster & Couture” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 101 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 41 Letter of 2 October 1925 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs to Campbell, McMaster & Couture Law firm exposing that “the Department has no records of any negotiations between the Dominion Government and the Province of Quebec with a view to settling the unsatisfactory position created by the judgment of the Privy Council in the Starchrome Mining case and in absence of the Deputy Minister I cannot say whether he had any interview with any member of the Quebec Government in regard to this matter[...]” f October 2, 1928 “Gentlemen, In reply to your letter of the 28th ultimo addressed to the Superintendent General of India Affairs I beg to state that the Department has no records of any negotiations between the Dominion Government and the Province of Quebec with a view to settling the unsatisfactory position created by the judgment of the Privy Council in the Starchrome Mining case and in ab- sence of the Deputy Minister I cannot say whether he had any interview with any member of the Quebec Government in regard to this matter. Your obedient servant, J.D. McLean, Acting Deputy Superintendent General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 102 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 42 Reception of the letter of J.D. McLean, Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs of the 2 October 1925 confirmed by Campbell, McMaster & Couture Law firm on 5 October 1925. Page 43 Letter –Memorandum from 15 November 1927, from Departmental Secretary of Indian Affairs to Captain Robertson with a mention “attached hereunder Robertson 14/4/1927” Departmental of Indian Affairs Canada “November 15, 1927. Memorandum: Captain Robertson. Would you kindly let me have a statement showing the reserves in the Province of Quebec, their area, quantity of land surrendered, and the quantity now remaining in reserves. I should like this statement as soon as possible this week. “DCL” D.S.G.I.A. (Department Secretary General of the Indian Affairs) Attached hereunder Robertson 14/4/1927 ” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 103 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 44 On 31 November 1927, the annexed, “statement showing the reserves in the Province of Quebec, their area, quantity of land surrendered, and the quantity now remaining in reserves” as asked previously by Department Secretary General of the Indian Affairs on November 15, 1927. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 104 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 45-46 Letter from 16 September 1927 from Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to W. Stuart Edwards Esquire, Deputy Minister of Justice, trying to calm the game through correspondence, considering the reluctance of Quebec to collaborate with the Court Decision. “Page 1 Quebec, September 16th 1927 W. Stuart Edward, Esqu., Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa. Dear Mr. Deputy Minister. As much as possible we are endeavouring on both sided to remove all cause of friction in the admin- istrative questions which arise between the two govern- ments and it is in this spirit that I am writing to you. We understand from the Department of Crown Lands of this Province that they have been informed that the Federal Officer still contend that it is within their rights to administer the lands which form part of dis- affected Indian reserves. As you know, this matter was ruled upon by the Privy Council in the Star Chrome Case decided in 1920 in t he sense that all such lands were vested in His Majesty in the right of the Province of Quebec after the removal of the interested Indians which had been, in several cases operated by way of a surrender of the Indian title. Shortly after this judgment, one of the Depart- ments of the Government of Canada, I believe that charged with the administration of Indian Affairs, furnished us with a voluminous list of the lands which had, for agri- cultural, industrial and other purposes , been conceded by the Ottawa Government, so as to facilitate the admin- istration of this part of the provincial domain by the local authorities. Of course, we have not any doubt at all that the Star Chrome judgment settles the question as far as this Government is concerned once for all. If you are of the same opinion, would it be asking you and the Honourable ........” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 105 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 45-46 Letter from 16 September 1927 from Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to W. Stuart Edwards Esquire, Deputy Minister of Justice, trying to calm the game through correspondence, considering the reluctance of Quebec to collaborate with the Court Decision. “page 2 ... Mr. Lapointe too much to communicate in our own way with proper federal department so as to prevent any difficulties in this connection. Yours sincerely, CHARLES LANCTOT. Deputy Attorney General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 106 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 47 (page 1/2) Letter of 11 November 1927 from W. Stuart Edward, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs attempting to calm the tension created towards Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec, considering the reluctance of Quebec to collaborate with the Star Chrome Court Decision. Page 1/2 “WSE/GLH. Ottawa, November 11, 1927. Dear Mr. Scott,- I enclose herewith copy of a letter which was received in the Department some time ago from Mr. Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec, upon the subject of the administration of certain reserves in that Province. When you spoke to me upon this subject recently the fact that Mr. Lanctot had communicated with me had escaped my memory, and his letter was only brought to my attention this morning. If you agree, I will write Mr. Lanctot stating that it would be desirable to have a con- ference between himself and our officials in the matter, and that if it would suit his convenience we would be glad to attend at Quebec for that purpose. Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, OTTAWA.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 107 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 48 (page 2/2) Letter of 11 November 1927 from W. Stuart Edward, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs attempting to calm the tension created towards Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec, considering the reluctance of Quebec to collaborate with the Star Chrome Court Decision. Page 2/2 “You will observe that Mt Lanctot is evidently under some misapprehension as to the effect of the Star Chrome case. This aspect of the matter could very easily be cleared up by correspondence, but I understand that there are number of matters which you wish to discuss with the provincial authorities, and it is for that reason that I make the above suggestion. Yours very truly, W. Stuart Edwards.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 108 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 49 Letter from 14 November 1927 from Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs giving receipt of the reception of the letter of 11 November 1927 from to W. Stuart Edward, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa, exposing that they would be willing to attend a meeting with Mr. Lanctot as a conference with the Minister at Quebec during the next week or the week after in which Charles Lanctot the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec would also attend. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 109 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 50 In a letter from 7 January 1928, Charles Lanctot the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to W. Stuart Edward, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa agreeing to have a conference adding that he would consider important to have Mr. Justice L. A. Cannon. -Reception of the letter was confirmed on 10 January 1928 by Stuart Edward, page 51. (Note: Mr Justice is a term used designating a Judge seating at Supreme Court of Canada.) Copy /EV “Quebec, January 7th, 1928 W. Stuart Edward, Esq., Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa Dear Mr. Edwards. Your file No. 1466/27 On my return from Europe I had communic- ation of your letter of the 22nd November last, in which you state that it would be desirable that the Hon. Mr Cannon, Dr. Scott, and possibly yourself should attend upon the Quebec authorities, in Quebec, in connection with the discussion of the situation in the Province of Quebec relating to the admin- istration of indian lands. I talked the matter over with the Premier and he states that if we were informed of Mt. Cannon’s next visit to Quebec, we would make it a point to meet him with Dr. Scott and yourself for the purpose of discussing the above matter. Yours sincerely, Charles Lanctot.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 110 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 52 Schedule exposing statement of the Indian Affairs concerning the original acres, surrendered acres and present acres Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 111 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 53 Schedule showing Lands allotted under Act 14 and 15 Vic. Chap. 106 and those received, citing Leinster, Doncaster Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 112 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 55 exposes the schedule stating the locations of lands allotted, including Doncaster as: Reserve No. 17 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 113 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Pages 59-72 are accounts relating the Balance in Trusts Funds Account and arrears -Province of Quebec, November 15, 1927 –NONE CONCERNING DONCASTER-. Page 59 Relating the Balance in Trusts Funds Account-Province of Quebec, November 15, 1927. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 114 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 73 (1/3) from pages 73-74-75 Letter-Memorandum of 17 October 1927 from the Office of the DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL, Ottawa of the Department of Indian Affairs exposing the suggested DISPOSAL OF SURRENDER PORTIONS of INDIAN RESERVES in Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. “Memorandum:-Disposal of surrender portions of Indian reserves in Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The respective rights of the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario in relation to Indian lands with- in the Province first came before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1888, when it was held (in St. Catharines’ Milling Company vs. The Queen, 1888, 14 App. Cas. 461 that lands surrendered by the Indians to the Crown subsequent to Con- federation belonged not to the Dominion, which had negotiated the treaty, but to the Province. Fourteen years later the question again came be- fore the Judicial Committee in a slightly different form, in Ontario Mining Company, Limited. Vs. Seybold, 1903, A.C.73. To that appeal the Dominion was a party, but just before the argument and agreement between Mr. Blake, representing the Province, and Mr. Newcombe, representing the Dominion, was entered into, and the latter took no part in the argument, which was followed by a judgment in effect confirming the conclusion arrived at in the earlier appeal. The agreement (known as “counsel’s agreement”, was dated 7th July, 1902), provided that, without prejudice to the legal rights of either the Province or the Dominion and merely as a matter of convenience, the Dominion should upon their surrender by the Indians, have power to dispose of lands included in reserves in Ontario, the Dominion to hold the proceeds subject to the rights of the Province. It was further provided that the question whether this right of dis- position by the Dominion should extend to the precious metals relevant to each particular piece of land. It was not until 1920 that the strictly legal position of lands in Indian reserves surrendered for sale was discussed before the Judicial Committee. Then in a case from Quebec (Attorney General for Quebec vs. Attorney General for Canada, 1921, A.C. 401). It was held that a patent by the Dominion of lands included in a reserve and surrendered by the Indians entrust for sale was ineffective, since upon the surrender the title passed, not to the Dominion, but to the Province. It is probable that the strictly legal position in relation to reserves in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, is identical with that in Quebec. The reserves in Ontario were apparently in the same position also until an agreement was entered into between the Dominion and the Province of Ontario dated the 24th day of March, 1924, and ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 115 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 74 (2/3) from pages 73-74-75 Letter-Memorandum of 17 October 1927 from the Office of the DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL, Ottawa of the Department of Indian Affairs exposing the suggested DISPOSAL OF SURRENDER PORTIONS of INDIAN RESERVES in Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. “ confirmed on Chapter 18, Statutes of Ontario. 14 Geo.V and by Chapter 40. Statutes of Canada, 14-15 Geo.V. Al- though no steps have been taken to determine the question, the general notion prevails that the Indians’ interest in reserves carries with it the right to the base metals but that the precious metals belong to the Crown in the right of the Province. Geological formations are such that precious and base metals ordinarily occur together and are only separated in the course refinement. To deal with the precious metals consequently involves dealing also with the late metals and the said Agreement with Ontario is that upon the sale or other disposition of mineral lands one-half of the total proceed should belong to the Dominion for the benefit of the Indians and the other half to the Province. Briefly, this Agreement following the recitals Proceeds:- (a) By paragraph 1 to confirm and define the right of the Dominion to dispose of Indian reserve lands generally, subject to the proviso that in the event of a bans becoming extinct, the lands and funds remaining shall belong to the province. (b) By paragraph 2 to 6 to permit the disposition also by the Dominion of the minerals including precious metals, subject however, to the assimilation of the right to stake and the mode of staking mineral claims on reserves to that applicable to adjoining lands in the Province under provincial laws and subject also to the division equally between the province and the Indians of the consideration obtained for minerals. (c) By paragraph 7 to exclude this latter arrange- ment as to minerals from the reserves set apart in 1873 under the Northwest Angle Treaty, which expressly provides that the Indians shall have the benefit of all the minerals, and also to exclude from the arrangement such lands as have been granted for the use of Indians by provincial letters patent which, under the law of Ontario, carry the precious metals as well as other miner- als. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 116 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 74 (2/3) from pages 73-74-75 Letter-Memorandum of 17 October 1927 from the Office of the DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL, Ottawa of the Department of Indian Affairs exposing the suggested DISPOSAL OF SURRENDER PORTIONS of INDIAN RESERVES in Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. “ ...confirmed on Chapter 18, Statutes of Ontario. 14 Geo.V and by Chapter 40. Statutes of Canada, 14-15 Geo.V. Al- though no steps have been taken to determine the question, the general notion prevails that the Indians’ interest in reserves carries with it the right to the base metals but that the precious metals belong to the Crown in the right of the Province. Geological formations are such that precious and base metals ordinarily occur together and are only separated in the course refinement. To deal with the precious metals consequently involves dealing also with the late metals and the said Agreement with Ontario is that upon the sale or other disposition of mineral lands one-half of the total proceed should belong to the Dominion for the benefit of the Indians and the other half to the Province. Briefly, this Agreement following the recitals Proceeds:- (a) (b) (c) (d) By paragraph 6 to prevent the disposition of water powers exceeding 500 horse-power, ex- cept on terms agreed to by the Province. (e) By Paragraph 9 to conform all past transact- tions by the Dominion or the Province. (f) By paragraph 10 to prevent the statutory confirmation of the agreement from affecting the interpretation which would, apart from it, be placed upon grants heretofore or hereafter made. The object of a bans in surrendering an area of land is to have it converted into cash to befunded for the benefit of its members. The interest arising therefrom is applied as occasion ma require in the way of relief, the purchase of stock, agricultural machinery &c. In this way property from which no particular benefit is being derived is converted into property from which very great benefit is derived. If, as is the situation at the present time, on a...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 117 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 75 (3/3) from pages 73-74-75 Letter-Memorandum of 17 October 1927 from the Office of the DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL, Ottawa of the Department of Indian Affairs exposing the suggested DISPOSAL OF SURRENDER PORTIONS of INDIAN RESERVES in Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Page 3 “ ...surrender of any portion of a reserve the Indians lose it entirely, they will not be disposed to release any of their lands, to the detriment of both the Indians and the adjoin- ing white community. The Provinces are quite as much in- terested as the Dominion in the improvement of tha Indian communities within their borders. It is submitted that the Province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island might consider the property of entering in- to the agreement with the Dominion similar to the one above re- ferred to between the Province of Ontario and the Dominion enabling the Indians to retain the benefits of lands surrender- ed for that purpose. Signed DCl (Designated clerk)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 118 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 76 Letter from 10 January 1928 from Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to W. Stuart Edward, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa hoping that an agreement will the Province of Quebec, still reluctant to jurisdictions well adopted in Ontario. Copy original on file 477657 File 477658 “10th January 1928. Dear Mr. Edwards: I beg to enclose a Memorandum dated the 17th October last setting forth briefly the facts which led to the Agreement between the Dominion and the Province of Ontario dated the 24th March, 1924 and confirmed by Chapter 15, 14 Geo. V., Status of Ontario, and by Chapter 48, 14-15 Geo.V, Statutes of Canada. It is hoped that we shall be able to enter into a similar agreement with the Province of Quebec and later with the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The desirability of such an agreement is apparent from the facts set forth in this memorandum. This is the one question in particular that we desire to take up with the Province of Quebec as soon as an agreement can be made for an interview with the Provincial Authorities. I am enclosing File No.477658 containing material with respect to treating with the Indians resident on the eastern side of James Bay in accordance with the provision of Paragraph C, Section 2, Chapter 45, 2 Geo.V. This subject may be referred to at the proposed interview but not so as to in any way interfere with the prospect of securing the agreement in respect of Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec as above referred to. Yours truly Duncan C Scott Deputy Superintendent General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 119 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 77 Letter from 20 March 1928 from Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Charles Lanctot the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec hoping that an agreement will the Province of Quebec, still reluctant to jurisdictions well adopted in Ontario. Doc 95452-1 “20th March 1928 Dear Mr. Lanctot. I hope you will not think I am anxious in writing to make an inquiry has to what progress has been made with respect to the suggested agreement between the Province and the Dominion in the matter of the Indian Reserves. If such an agreement can be reached, as I sincere- ly hope that it may, I am very anxious that it be consum- mated of possible, in time to have enacted at the present Session of the Legislature and Parliament the necessary legislation to confirm this agreement. I should be obliged to hear from you in reference to this matter. Yours sincerely Duncan Scott Deputy Superintendent General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 120 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 78 Letter from 21 March 1928 from Charles Lanctot the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that the “matter of Indian Reserves will be taken up after the Quebec Legislature is prorogued.”. Doc 95452 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 121 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 79 Letter from 12 September 1928 from Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Charles Lanctot the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec “hoping that a progress is in course concerning the questions we discussed when I was in Quebec.” Doc 95452-1 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 122 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 80 Letter from 13 September 1928 from Charles Lanctot, the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that the “I have your letter of the 12th instant and in answer, beg you to state that the matter is still under consideration of the Government.”. Doc 95452 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 123 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 81 Letter from 26 September 1928 from Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Charles Lanctot the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec hoping that a progress is in course concerning the questions of the Indian Reserves. Doc 95452-1 th “25 September, 1928. Dear Mr. Lanctot, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the13th Instant, stating that the matter referred to in your letter was still under consideration. Mr. Graveline, an Officer from the Department of Lands and Forests, Quebec, when at this Department today made applications for the names of grantees to whom patents for Indian lands had been granted by the Dominion Government in order that patents may be granted by the Provincial Govern- ment in permanence of the provisions of the Chapter 27, 17 Geo. 5, Statutes of Quebec. Since the Act was passed we have, of course, been corresponding with each other with a view of adjusting by neutral agreement the condition, unsatisfactory alike to the Province and the Dominion, arising out of the decision in what is known as the Star Chrome case. If such an agreement as that proposed by this Department is acceptable to the Province and entered into by the two Governments, it may possibly result in some modification of the action to be taken under the provisions of the said Statute of 1927. It seems to me therefore that we should dispose of the question of the proposed agreement before either party undertakes the work involved in carrying out the provisions of the said Statute. If there is anything I can do to facilitate the adjustment of this matter, either by correspondence, or personal attendance at your Department in Quebec, kindly advise me. Your sincerely, Duncan Scott Deputy Superintendent General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 124 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 83-84 (page 1/2) Letter from 13 September 1928 from Charles Lanctot, the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that he is now disposed of granting to money back to squatters under the conditions and administration of the provincial government, once they receive the funds necessary. Doc 95452-1 “The Deputy of Attorney General Quebec, September 19th, 1928. Dear Mr. Scott. I am directed by the Attorney General to acknowledge the receipt of you letter of the 15th Instant, in which you ask whether the agreement proposed by the Department of Indian Affairs to determine a modus vivendi between the two governments under the decision of the Privy Council in the Star Chrome case, is acceptable to the Government of the Province. I now have to state that the Minister have given the attentive consideration and they have come to the conclusion that the administration of the lands which had formed part of the abandoned Reserves must be administered directly by the Government of this Province; that the Provincial Government must carry out the engagement taken before the Judicial Committee by its Counsel to respect the possession of settlers who had established themselves on the same lands under a Federal title; and that moneys which have been paid over to the Federal authorities for these lands and for those granted by the Dominion Government for industrial purposes should be paid over to the Government of Quebec – and I am requested to ask you to see that this payment be made as soon as possible by the federal...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 125 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 83-84 (page 2/2) Letter from 13 September 1928 from Charles Lanctot, the Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General of Quebec to Duncan Scott, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that he is now disposed of granting to money back to squatters, but under the conditions that they manage the administration of funds from the provincial government, once they receive the funds necessary. Doc 95452-1 Page 2 “... Government. In order that this Government may carry out the provisions of the Statute of 1927, which was passed to fulfill the undertaking of the Province through its Counsel before the Judicial Committee, it will be necessary for the Department of Lands and Forests to have the list of the federal grants; and I would ask you to cause this list to be sent either to the undersigned or to the Department of Lands and Forests directly. Yours very truly Charles Lanctot Deputy Attorney General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 126 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 87, 1/3 (Pages 85 & 86 letters receptions confirmations) A letter from December 19, 1928, from Quebec from Duncan Scott, Deputy Superintendent General to Charles Steward, Canadian Minister of the Interior and Mines in office from December 29, 1921 – June 29, 1926. He exposed the reluctance of Quebec to let the Federal manage the administration proceed as Ontario in rendering lands to Native communities. Quebec’s demanding to manage the administration of funds from the provincial government, once they receive the funds necessary is based on a decision of the Privy Council dated the 23rd day of November 1920, in the case of the Attorney General for Quebec Vs the Attorney General for Canada, commonly known as the Star Chrome Mining Company, as exposed in this letter. 19th December, 1928. “MEMORANDUM Honorable Charles Stewart, The undersigned begs to report on the situation which has arisen between the Dominion Government represented by this Department and the Government of the Province of Quebec. The Province of Quebec has demanded from this De- partment as custodian of Indian funds a refund to the Province of a sum which may be estimated as approximately $500,000,00 representing the funds received from sale of Reserve lands which the Indians had surrendered for sale under the provisions of the Indian Act. Quebec’s demand is based on a decision of rd the Privy Council dated the 23 day of November 1920, in the case of the Attorney General for Quebec Vs the Attorney General for Canada, commonly known as the Star Chrome Mining Company case in which it was held that on the surrender of a portion of an Indian reserve in the Province of Quebec which has been set apart under the provisions of the two statutes passed by the legislature of the Province of Quebec, 13-14 Vic, Chap- ter 42 and 14-15 Vic., Chapter 106, the Province rather than the Dominion took the full beneficial interest therein and as a consequence the proceeds of the sale of such surrendered portion belonged to the Province, and to get title the pur- chaser would have to secure a title from the Province rather than from the Dominion. In pursuance of this Judgment a Pro- vincial Statute, being Chapter 27, Statute of Quebec 1927, was passed authorizing the Lieutenant Governor in Council to recommend the gratuitous insurances of Letters Patent in favor of purchasers of surrendered agricultural lands provided that any sum remaining due on the purchase price be paid direct to the Province. This decision of the Privy Council brought to the attention of the Department the precarious title of not only the reserves in Quebec but probably reserves in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The question ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 127 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 2/3, The Province of Quebec exposed its opposition to the precedents active in other Provinces. Page 2 “... affecting the Province of Ontario was important owing to the extent and value of Indian reserves and the large number of sales of surrendered Indian reserves lands, the Department entered into negotiations with Ontario with a view of secur- ing some agreements by which the Department would have author- ity to give proper title to reserve lands surrendered for sale and to apply the proceeds of the sale of such lands for the benefit of the Indians. As a result of these nego- th tiations an Agreement dated the 24 day of March, 1924 was entered into between the Dominion and the Province with re- spect to the disposal of Indian reserves lands and minerals and this Agreement was confirmed by 14-15 Geo.V., Chap. 48 Statutes of Canada and by 14 Geo., V. Chap., 15 Statutes of Ontario. A copy of the said Agreement is attached. By this Agreement the Dominion may sell and give title to surrendered reserve lands within the Province, and apply the proceeds for the benefit of the Indians. The undersigned was hopeful that Quebec would readily agree to a like arrangement with the Dominion and with a view of promoting such an agreement he visited Quebec last spring in company with the Departmental Sollicitor to interview the Deputy Attorney General of the Province. We both thought the interview favorable, but it now appears that the Province is not disposed to make any concession but rather insist on its strict legal rights. If Quebec succeeds in having these funds returned to the Province it will seriously prejudice the administa- tion of the Department in the (...) of the Indians who sur- rendered their lands on the understanding that the proceeds would be applied for their benefit, and it will. I am disposed to think be a matter of embarrassment to the Governor itself for Quebec’s example will in all probability be followed by New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in making similar demands. Before therefore the Government is called upon to provide the funds to meet the demands now made by Quebec, I should like to urge that an arrangement be made for the fullest discussion of the situation arising out of this demand with the Government of Quebec in the hope of securing an agreement similar to that which was secured with the Province of Ontario. The Dominion is, I take it, liable for all funds spent on Indians from the proceeds of the sales, and this will amount to a considerable sum which must be pro- vided by Parliament. The Province is more concerned even...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 128 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 3/3 concluding Page 3: conclusion “...that the Dominion that lands not required by the Indians should be thrown open for settlement but if the letter of the judgment be insisted upon the result will be that this Department will be unable to arrange with the Indians for any surrenders of their property, and settlement of the Province in certain localities will be effectively blocked. I may say that the communication from Quebec Government asking for these funds is at present before the Deputy Minister of Justice for consideration. Duncan Scott, Deputy General” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 129 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 90 On December 21, 1928, Charles Stewart exposed to Duncan Scott that it would be appropriate to make the Ontario and Maritimes decisions to render lands back to the Natives a precedent in Quebec as well. Ottawa, December 21, 1928 “MEMORANDUM th I have your memorandum of the 19 instant, reporting on the situation which has arisen between the Dominion Government and the Government of the Province of Quebec. I have read your memorandum with considerable interest, and I think it should be well for you to continue to try and arrange a settlement on similar lines to that of the agreement between Ontario and the Federal Government with respect to these Indian Reserves. I think it would be well to stress the point mentioned in your memorandum, that this would certainly put an end to the surrender of any more Indian lands if the Quebec Government insists on the payment of the amount mentioned in their report. Charles Stewart Superintendent General” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 130 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 91-92 (letter 1/2) Letter from 1 March 1929 from Prime Minister of Quebec, Taschereau in an attempt to give his conditions in order to gain an interest rate from the Federal. Page 1/2 March 1st, 1929 “Dear Sir, Indian Reserves in the Province of Quebec. Since the receipt of the letter from Mr. Charles Lanctot, Deputy Attorney General, dated September 29th, I have made representations to the Honorable the Superintendent General that the question should be discussed again with your personally, I pointed out to the Minister that no transfer of Indian funds in the custody of the Department could take place without the authority of His Excellency in Council, and the Minister directed me to take the first opportunity of laying the matter before you. This Department does not question the legal position of the Province of Quebec in asking an accounting for the monies received from the sale of Indian lands and is quite prepared to meet the conditions imposed by the judgement. The decision of the Privy Council set up exactly the same conditions in the province of Ontario and this Department was enabled to obtain an agreement with the Province of Ontario which was confirmed by statute. By this agreement the Dominion may sell and give title to surrendered reserve lands in the Province and apply the proceeds for the benefits of the Indians and in all respects deal with Indian Reserves under the provisions of the Indian Act. Provision was also made for the validation of patents issued by this Department previous and subsequent to the agreement. ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 131 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 91-92 (letter 2/2) Letter from 1 March 1929 from Prime Minister of Quebec, Taschereau in an attempt to give his conditions in order to gain an interest rate from the Federal. Page 2/2 “The ultimate interest of the Province is fully protected by the agreement and it is provided that when an Indian band become extinct the monies and lands formerly the property of such band, remaining in the custody of the Department, shall be returned to the Province. The values in Indian reserves in the Province of Ontario exceed those in the Province of Quebec and we are still hopeful that Quebec will grant like terms to the Dominion for the benefit of the Indians. What the Dominion asks is that the Province shall not take from the Indians monies received from the sale of these lands and shall give the Indians the full use under a statutory agreement of the reserve lands se apart for them, which area considering the extent of the Province, is negligible. The funds in hand and in prospect in comparison to the wealth of the Province may also be considered relatively unimportant. If the Province still wishes to take the legal position it follows that this Department will not be able to ask the Indians for any surrenders of land, and from our standpoint, it is not considered that such a position of affairs be in the interests of the development of localities adjacent to Indian Reserves. I would most respectfully ask for further consideration, Yours faithfully, Ho. L.A. Taschereau, Prime Minister and Attorney General, Quebec, Que.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 132 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 93 Letter from 11th March 1929 from R.A. Valin from Department of Lands and Forests of Quebec. “Ottawa, 11th March 1929 Sir, In connection with my interview to-day with Mr. J.D. McLean, Acting as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, I beg to request the Department to send the three blueprints of each of the Indian reserves in the Province of Quebec, including all lands which have been sold, and subdivisions where possible. Yours truly, R.A. Valin Dept des Terres Forêts (of Lands and Forests) Quebec.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 133 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 94, Doncaster Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 134 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 95 Letter of A.F. Mackenzie, acting as Assistant Deputy and Secretary of Indian Affairs to R.A. Valin from Department of Lands and Forests of Quebec, March 16th, 1929. Ottawa, 16th March 1929 “Sir, In response To your verbal request of the 11th instant, I beg to say there has been sent under separate cover in three rolls, three blueprints of each of the following Indian reserves,- √Bersimis √Doncaster √Escoumins √Ouiatchouans √Becancour √ Crespeiul √Coleraine √Pierreville √Caughnawaga √Durham lands √Lorette √Restigouche √Quarante Arpents √Seven Islands √Rocmont √St. Regis √Maria √Temiskaming √Maniwaki √Viger √Weymontachi √ Whitworth √Coucoucahe √Cacouna √Manuan The portions as coloured show all the lands in the several reserves dealt with by this Department, including the portions which have been surrendered and sold. Your obedient servant (A.F. MacKenzie) Act. Asst. Deputy and Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 135 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 96 Letter of Gustave Clodomir C Piché, Chief of Forestry Service, Quebec, from Department of Lands and Forests Quebec to A.F. Mackenzie, acting as Assistant Deputy and Secretary of Indian Affairs, from March 21st 1929. “Quebec, March 21st, 1929. Sir, We beg to acknowledge receipt and thank you for the sending of three blueprints of each of the following Indians Reserves to our Mr. Valin, vix: - Bersimis, Escoumins, Becancour, Coleraine, Lorette, Caughnawaga, Quarante-Arpents, Rocmont, Maria, Maniwaki, Weymontachinque, Coucoucache, Manuan, Doncaster, Ouiatchouan, Crespieul, Pierreville, Durham Lands, Restigouche, Seven-Islands, St. Regis, Timiskaming, Viger, Withworth and Cacouna. Yours truly G.C. Piché Chief Forestry Services.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 136 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 115 (page 1/3) (Page 118-119-120 are copies of the same letter) Letter of Prime Minister of Quebec, Louis Alexandre Taschereau to Hughes Guthrie Minister of Justice, exposing a position similar as the squatters earlier, September 1930. Page 1/3 (Copy) “Department of the Attorney General Quebec Duplicate Quebec, September 1930 The Hon. Hugh Guthrie, K.C., Minister of Justice, Ottawa. The Star Chrome Mining Company. Sir, I have had under consideration your letter of August 13th, 1930, addressed to the Deputy Attorney General respecting the accounting by the Dominion for the proceeds of the sale of surrendered portions of Indian Reserves and the continuation of the negotiations to bring about an agreement between our two governments, similar in effect to the one concluded between Canada and several of the other provinces with respect to the control and sale of lands in these partly surrendered Indian Reserves and the use of the proceeds of the sale of these lands. We are of course in accord as to the pro- prietary rights in these abandoned reserves being vested in the Province and as to the effect of the judgment in the above mentioned case. This was the view expressed by the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs when he met us in Quebec and this is the view in which your letter concurs. The sum collected by the Dominion as a result of the sale of these lands can hardly be called a paltry one; it is a substantial one amounting in fact .....” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 137 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction P 116 (page 2/3) (Page 118-119-120 are copies of the same letter) Letter of Prime Minister of Quebec, Louis Alexandre Taschereau to Hughes Guthrie Minister of Justice, exposing a position similar as the squatters earlier, September 1930. Page 2/3 “... up to November 15th, 1927 to $367,771.32 in capital, and $35,194.64 in interest. We do not see how the Province can be called upon to abandon this claim. The care and maintenance of the Indians constitute a charge on the Federal Exchequer and the Province should not be called upon to reimburse what is expended in this connection. It seems to us a therefore that these amounts should be turned over to the Province as asked in our letter of the 29th April, last. As regards the application to this Province of the system established by agreements between your government and Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, I must say that we are not prepared to accept it. What exists in other provinces under the agreements is tantamount40 to the denial of our rights as recognized by the judgement in the Star Chrome case and we feel that we should not be justified in acceding to the suggestion that we should enter into a similar agreement. The matter has been under consideration for a number of years, it has not really been the subject of negotiations for our position has always been plain and there has only been a request by the Department of Indian Affairs that the Province should give up the rights, though of course I promised to consider the representations made by the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. I think, under the circumstances, our admitted claim should now be settled without further delay. This would seem to be more advantageous for the Dominion ....” 40 Tantamount: means, equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 138 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 117 (page 3/3) (Page 118-119-120 are copies of the same letter) Letter of Prime Minister of Quebec, Louis Alexandre Taschereau to Hughes Guthrie Minister of Justice, exposing a position similar as the squatters earlier, September 1930. Page 3/3 “... as interest is continuing to run. With this however the province is not concerned any more than with the formalities you refer to as being requisite for the Dominion to discharge its obligations. Yours very truly, (sgd) L.A. Taschereau” Page 121, Letter of April 19, 1932, Taschereau maintains his position no agreeing to cease to possession of lands. Then, on page 139 to 144, on May 12, 1932, the Minister stays on his position, that the precedent that occured in other provinces had its jurisdiction in Quebec as well. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 139 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction On page 146, the amounts requested are exposed to Taschereau: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 140 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 160-162 / Page 160 In a letter entitled “Claims of the Province of Quebec for payment of monies received from the sale of surrendered Indian lands in that Province.”, from the Superintendent General, J.C. Caldwell director of Lands and Timber Branch, to A.S” William the acting deputy, Superintendent General (on behalf of (T.G. Murphy) cites that Quebec is the only province reluctant to follow the Star Chrome decision, the precedent in this matter. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 141 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 160 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 142 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 161: Quebec’s reluctance to submit to the precedents in Ontario Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 143 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Quebec’s reluctance to submit to the precedents in Ontario “The Province of Quebec is the only province in the Dominion demanding a settlement in full on the basis of the Star Chrome decision and over a period of years this Department has unsuccessfully endeavoured to bring about an agreement similar to the one in different effect with the Province of Ontario.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 144 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 170-171 In a letter from Hugh Guthrie, E.C., Minister of Justice to Superintendent General Thomas J. Murphy on May 18, 1932, he exposes the importance to put the emphasis on the amount expected from the Provincial responsibles in Quebec, Prime Minister Taschereau. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 145 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 171 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 146 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 172 In a copy of the letter from Superintendent General Thomas J. Murphy to Hugh Guthrie, E.C., Minister of Justice on May 18, 1932, he exposes the importance to put the emphasis on the amount expected from the Provincial responsibles in Quebec, Prime Minister Taschereau. Thomas Murphy enclosed a memorandum “ “MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR CANADA Ottawa, May 18, 1932 My Dear Colleague, I discussed with your Deputy, Mr. Edwards, a few days ago to claim the Honourable Mr. Taschereau, on behalf of the Province of Quebec, for the payment of all monies received by the Dominion Government from the sale of surrendered Indian lands in that Province, the claim being based on the judgment of the Privy Council in 1920 in what is known as the Star Chrome Mining Company case. I am enclosing, herewith, a memorandum dealing with the history of the cases and a recommendation to Council providing for the payment to the Province of Quebec of the amount which, in the opinion of the department of Indian Affairs -, ans, I believe, concurred in by your Department- the Dominion Government properly owes to the Province. As the Prime Minister is anxious that this matter be dealt with at once, I should like to have your opinion some time during the day as to what amount may properly be held as owing to the Province of Quebec by the Dominion Government in respect of the judgment of the Privy Council in the Star Chrome Mining Company case. Further, I should like you to advise me how, and in what manner, such monies can be paid to the Province. If the recommendation to Council is not in order, would you kindly have your officers draft one which will be in accordance with your judgment.” The letter ends by asking: “With your reply, will you be good enough to return the enclosed document Sgd Thomas G. Murphy” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 147 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 173 The enclosed document was an account of Statement with respect to surrendered lands in the Province of Quebec. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 148 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 174 The enclosed document was an account of Statement with respect to surrendered lands in the Province of Quebec. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 149 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 175 The enclosed document was an account of Statement with respect to surrendered lands in the Province of Quebec. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 150 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 176 Balance in Trust Fund Accounts – Province of Quebec, November 15th, 1927. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 151 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 177 Balance in Trust Fund Accounts – Province of Quebec, November 15th, 1927. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 152 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 188 Final adjustments: ruling and management by province and mining rules for all provinces, confirming the application of the precedent or Stare Decisi, the Chrome precedent of 1924 in Ontario. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 153 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 191, 194, 195, Consequences in the province of Quebec and Doncaster Page 194 Letter-Memorandum of February 9, 1933 of Harold Wigmore McGill to Thomas Gerow Murphy, Superintendent General on Indian Affairs. PC. Wigmore McGill served in the Legislature for just over two years before vacating his seat. He was appointed as Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa. “February 9th 1933. Memorandum Hon, Thomas G. Murphy- I am attaching a memorandum directed to me by Mr, Caldwell with reference to the Doncaster Indian Reserve, Quebec. It is perfectly obvious that until the position of the Department and the Province of Quebec of fully decided in respect to surrendered Indian lands, the Department would not be justified in sanctioning a surrender even if the consent of the Indians were obtained, and this letter is a very remote contingency when we consider that the proceeds of any such surrender would go, not to the Indians, but to the Province of Quebec.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 154 HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, Microfilm reel C-11224, Surrenders following the Star Chrome Jurisdiction Page 195 Letter-Memorandum of February 9, 1933 of Harold Wigmore McGill to Thomas Gerow Murphy, Superintendent General on Indian Affairs. “February 9th 1933. Memorandum Hon, Thomas G. Murphy- I am attaching a memorandum directed to me by Mr, Caldwell with reference to the Doncaster Indian Reserve, Quebec. It is perfectly obvious that until the position of the Department and the Province of Quebec of fully decided in respect to surrendered Indian lands, the Department would not be justified in sanctioning a surrender even if the consent of the Indians were obtained, and this letter is a very remote contingency when we consider that the proceeds of any such surrender would go, not to the Indians, but to the Province of Quebec.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 155 Chapter 3: Petitions from Squatters and Mayor of Ste. Lucie claiming lands 1873-1890 41 Exposed the litigious position of the Province of Quebec and the Governor General and several Ministerial instances after petitions received from the mayor of Ste Lucie and squatters, from 1873 to 1890. The petition cited the dates from 18 July and September 20, started in these terms, from the commissioner of Crown Lands, Pierre-Etienne Fortin from Quebec, on the 13th September 1873. Then, an answer from the commissary of Crown land Departments of Quebec in a letter from September 24, 1873 to Fortin that Indian land in Durham be brought into market. Then on October 30 & November 3, 1873 a letter from Court Crown Lands suggesting that Indians consent be obtained to its subdivision & sale.” Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” On June 15 1873, E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior wrote a briefing of the Doncaster’s Indian Reserve’s history, attested the “Indian Branch August 11, 1874 by L. Vankoughnet DSGIA (Deputy Superint. Gen. of Ind. Affs)” Then, Noé Forget – Mayor, Ste Lucie Doncaster, sent a letter to the Secretary of State on 10/11 July 1890, Ottawa citing a Petition from the inhabitants of the Parish of the Ste Lucie Doncaster for the survey and certain Indian lands 41 Source mainly used for this Chapter: CAUGHNAWAGA AGENCY - PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE.1873-1890, LAC, MIKAN no. 2062876, reel C-11234, (49 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2425. File number: 107,786. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 156 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 1 Noé Forget – Mayor, Ste Lucie Doncaster, Intro Secretary of State 10/11 July 1890, Ottawa Petition from the inhabitants of the Parish of the Ste Lucie Doncaster for the survey and certain Indian lands. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 157 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 2-3 The petition cited the dates from 18 July and 20 September 20 1873, started in these terms, from the commissioner of Crown Lands, Pierre-Etienne Fortin from Quebec, on the 13th September 1873: “Sir, As it appears that the Indian Reserve in the township of Doncaster is not occupied by any Indian, nor likely to be so, and as it is important in view of the progress of settlement in the said township that this block of land should be offered for sale to actual and intending settlers, I have the honor to propose that it be transferred to the government of this province in exchange for an equal area of land in another locality better suited to the...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 158 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 2-3 The petition cited the dates from 18 July and 20 September 20 1873, started in these terms, from the commissioner of Crown Lands, Pierre-Etienne Fortin from Quebec, on the 13th “...the needs of the Indians or in case such an exchange cannot be made, I have the Honor to suggest that the land in question be offered for sale by your Department. I Have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant P Fortin,(signed), Commissioner of Crown Lands,” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 159 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 4 Crown Lands Department, Sept, 13/17 P.2 (unreadable) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 160 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 5-6 Then, an answer to Pierre-Etienne Fortin, Commissioner of Crown Lands, from Quebec his Superior Instance in a letter from September 24, 1873 exposing that Indian land in Durham be brought into market: “To the Honorable P. Fortin, Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th, and in reply to state that the Reserve in the township of Doncaster is the property of the Iroquois of the Lake of Two Mountains and of Caughnawaga and according to the 6th section of the “set 31 Vic Cap 42”, in order to admit of its disposal, it would...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 161 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 5-6 Then, an answer to Pierre-Etienne Fortin, Commissioner of Crown Lands, from Quebec his Superior Instance in a letter from September 24, 1873 exposing that Indian land in Durham be brought into market: “... would require their concurrence therein, in order to admit of its disposal If a definite proposition, such as it would be in the interest of the Indians to accepts, be forwarded to the Superior General of Indian Affairs it could then be submitted to the Indians for their consideration. The Indian reserve in question is as present under timber license. I have the h to b. Y. O. S.” (I have the honor to be your obedient servant) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 162 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 7-8 Then, from the Department of the Interior, from November 3, 1873: “Quebec, 10th October 1873 Sir, As colonisation is progressing rapidly in that part of the province of Quebec in which the Indian reserve is a township of Doncaster is comprised, and as it is very difficult to prevent settlers from squatting on the said reserve, which seems moreover to be of no great ability to the Iroquois of the Lake of Two Mountains, I “deserve” to suggest that the necessary steps be taken by the proper authorities to procure the consent of the Indians to the subdivision of the tract in question, and to the sale of lots to actual settlers, the price of the land “reverting” to the Indians: in a word, ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 163 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 7-8 Then, from the Department of the Interior, from November 3, 1873: “... to take respecting this reserve the same measures that were adopted for that of Ouiatchouan Lake St-John, which is open to colonization. I have the Honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant P. Fortin, Commissioner of Crown lands.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 164 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 9 The following document from the same file archived at Library and Archives Canada in regard to these correspondences was a simple note in which was written: “October 30 & November 3, 1873 letter from Court Crown Lands suggesting that Indians consent be obtained to its subdivision & sale.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 165 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 10 Draft: From the Superior of P. Fortin, Commissioner of Crown Land, Quebec, December 29, 1873, p.2. December 29, 1873. “Sir, Referring to your letter of the 30th of Oct last, I have the honor to inform you that is has been decided to renew the timber licence to lmtd C Mcfers Cuching Bros Concerning the Doncaster Indian reserve for the current Season to the 30th of April 1874. For the msundertanding that should the Limit in question not be worked during that term the Licence will not be again renewed –or... Further instructions have been sent to the acting agent for that reactive to warn all squatters or intending squatters that there will be summariz ... (unreadable)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 166 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 11 Acknowledgment-Memo of December 22, 1873. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 167 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 12-13 Then, it was followed by a letter from the superior of C.E. Belle, Esquire, Crown Timber Agent, Montreal, who answered on October 4, 1873: “Sir, In further references to your letter of the 30th (October ), reporting that Mcphers Couching Bros have failed to furnish a statement of their timber operations during last winter upon the Indian reserve lands in the township of Doncaster, I have the request that you will visit that place or, if unable to do s o personally, that you will employ some reliable person to do and ascertain whether any, and if any, what, timber or saw lodge were cut there “dewing” last season: by whom cut the “description” & quantity so cut; and whether removed, or still on the reserve, or, en route, when reporting the above...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 168 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 12-13 Then, it was followed by a letter from C.E. Belle, Esquire, Crown Timber Agent, Montreal, who answered on October 4, 1873: “...the above particulars to this office, you will please state if you issued a permit, or permits this season for the removal of timber or sawlogs from the Reserve. I am, S. Y. O. S. (I am Sir, Your Obedient Servant)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 169 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 14-15 (page 1/2) Then, it was followed by another draft letter from Crown Timber Superintendent, to C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Esquire, Montreal, on November 20-21, 1873, exposing:“ this subject to do so, you will please obtain such as will enable you to supply these particulars. I have the H. To be Y.O.S.” “Sir, answering to your letter of the 18th and to my letter to you of the 13th int., I have to honour to request that you will state what in your opinion is the value per acre of the various lots within the Doncaster Indian reserve:- and if you are not at present sufficiently acquainted in possession of sufficient informations on...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 170 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 14-15 (page 2/2) Then, it was followed by another draft letter from Crown Timber Superintendent, to C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Esquire, Montreal, on November 20-21, 1873, exposing:“ this subject to do so, you will please obtain such as will enable you to supply these particulars. I have the H. To be Y.O.S.” “ ... on this subject to do so, you will please obtain such as will enable you to supply these particulars. I have the H. To be S. Y.O.S.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 171 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 16 In a letter from C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Agent of Timber Office, Montreal, 29 November 1873 to E.A. Meredithe, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior: “Sir, In reply to your letter of the 21st inst, asking my opinion as to the value per acre of the various soils within the Doncaster Indian Reserve. I beg to state that Crown Lots in the surveyed parts of the Doncaster belonging to the Province of Quebec, are offered & sold as a fixed price of Thirty cents per acre, payable in five yearly instalments. It would therefore consider that the Land comprised in the Indian Reserve not being surrendered and laid out into lots would not be worth more than Twenty cents per acres. I Have the Honor to be Sir Your obedient C.E Belle.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 172 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Pages 17-18-19 From December 10, 1873, from Ottawa, Commissioner of Crown Lands Page 17- “Mr The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Quebec has submitted the proposal that the Reserve in the township of Doncaster containing 16,000 acres set apart under authority” of the articles 14th & 15th Victoria Capt 106 for the benefit of the Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga and the Lake of Two Mountains may either be transferred to the Government of the Province settlements upon their lands being substituted for it, or that it may be disposed of as Indian lands for actual Settlers. The reserve in question contains a considerable quantity of good merchantable timber and a license to cut.” -Note on the left side: “Approved ... for the Minister of the Interior.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 173 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Pages 17-18-19 From December 10, 1873, from Ottawa, Commissioner of Crown Lands Page 18- (Page 18-19 are exposing a license from 1872 for wood floating adapted to high expenses.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 174 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Pages 17-18-19 From December 10, 1873, from Ottawa, Commissioner of Crown Lands Page 19-(Page 18-19 are exposing a license from 1872 for wood floating adapted to high expenses.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 175 Page 18-19 are exposing a license from 1872 for wood floating adapted to high expenses. ANNEX: The Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Province of Quebec for the 12 months ended 30th June 1874 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 176 The Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Province of Quebec for the 12 months ended 30th June 1874: citing Doncaster and Wexford Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 177 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 20 cites: “Men of the Indian Office relating to the Indian Reserve in the Township of Doncaster, Province of Quebec.” (Note by Bell, Crown Timber Agent.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 178 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Pages 21 From December 11th 1873, mentioning C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Agent “File ... 2451 (cashing for paper) To be returned by chef of State Mr, North Am CL (Crown Lands) Belle Crown Lands Spt Mutual request from have a statement in detail of the Timber and saw logs cut Mssrs Cushling (Mcpherson & Cushling) On the ... the Doncaster Indian Reserve, and ... Squatters brought down And their residing on the Reserve and... also in ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 179 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Pages 22 From December 12th 1873, repost letter sent to C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Agent from his higher instance exposing the importance to remove the Squatters, considering the legal matter incurring. “No 2457 To C.E. Belle, Esqr Crown Timber Agent, Montreal Dec. 12, 1873 Sir, I have your request that you forwarded this Department met a state- ment in detail of all timber saw logs cut by Messrs Cushling Co, upon the Doncaster Ind. Reserve showing exparated , the quantities brought down. The Squatters remaining on the Reserve also .......in transit or .... by obstructions floated the whole distance ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 180 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 23-24 From December 29th 1873, repost letter to C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Agent from his higher instance exposing the importance to remove the Squatters, considering the legal matter incurring. “Sir, Referring to your letter of the 29th Ult, I have to inforn you that the acting Superintendent General of Indian Affairs has decided to renew the Timber License held by the Messrs Cushling Company, the Doncaster Reserve to the 30 April 1874, upon payments by that firm of arrear of ground rent for the year... 30th of April 1873 and 30th of April 1874 and renewal fees for both these years but with the under- standing that if the Timber Limit is not worked...” Note left corner: “amount by the $152°° as shown by the accompanying account Current.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 181 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 23-24 From December 29th 1873, repost letter to C.E. Belle, Crown Timber Agent from his higher instance exposing the importance to remove the Squatters, considering the legal matter incurring. “... worked this winter The License will not be renewed again, As it is possible that Squatters upon the Reserve may be attempted, you will please warn any parties who may have squatters, or may in future squat there and that they will be expelled for assessing unauthorized possession of Indian lands. I am Y.O.S.” In a note below, dated from 29 December 1873: “Dec. 29, 1832 Messirs Cushing Bros Lumber Merchant Gentlemen, I have to inform you that theaction for the Supt Genl of Indian Affairs upon taking into consideration the difficulties, with which you have had to contend in connection with driving your Sawloops down the East Branch of the North River, has assented to be renewal of the Lisence covering the Doncaster Timber limit taking place in your favor to the 30th of April 1873 provided arrears of ground rent for the year ended 30th April 1873 x They found rent to 30th April 1874 together with $4.00renewal fees for those two years be paid into Bank to the credit of the Reg. Genl. An acet of Ind. Funds and Bank certified tbst (to be sent) forward their Crown Timber Agent Belle of this Office. I am Y.O.S.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 182 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 23-24 (Enlarged) In another paragraph written vertically on the same note from 29 December 1873: It reads: “... to the 30th of April 1873 provided arrears of ground rent for the year ended 30th April 1873 x They found rent to 30th April 1874 together with $4.00 renewal fees for those two years be paid into Bank to the credit of the Reg. Genl. An acet of Ind. Funds and Bank certified tbst (to be sent) forward their Crown Timber Agent Belle of this Office. I am Y.O.S.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 183 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 23-24 (Enlarged) In another paragraph written vertically on the same note from 29 December 1873: It reads: Another note in the middle right side margin exposed: “Amounts $ 152°° As presented to state that if the limit has not ... during the present lease, the lease will not be again renewed.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 184 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 25-26 (page 1/2)From December 29th 1873, post from C.E. Belle the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office, to E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. Exposing sum up of the last year including a flood. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 185 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 25-26 (page 2/2) From December 29th 1873, post from C.E. Belle the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office, to E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. Exposing sum up of the last year including a flood. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 186 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 27-28 From 8 May 1874, post from the superior of C.E. Belle the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office, exposing him the newest updates citing that: “It has been suggested to the Department that a Sale of the lots land composing the Doncaster Indian Reserve would be advisable in the interest of settlement, and would not be disadvantage on the Indians.” “2452 draft To: C.E. Belle, Esq May 8th, 1874 Cr. Timber Agt Montreal P.Q. Sir, I have to honor to request that you will inform me if you renewed Messrs Cushing Bros received from you a renewal of their License to the 30th Al (April), concerning the Timber upon the Doncaster Indian Reserve, was autorized which it was stated in the letter to you of the 29 Decr (December) last, which take place upon their payments arrears of round rent and of which proposition that Provin. (Province) was duly notified by letter of the same date. If a renewal did take place please advise this office of the quantity of timber cut under the same and the dues paid durring...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 187 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 27-28 From 8 May 1874, post from the superior of C.E. Belle the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office, exposing him the newest updates citing that: “It has been suggested to the Department that a Sale of the lots land composing the Doncaster Indian Reserve would be advisable in the interest of settlement, and would not be disadvantage on the Indians.” “...during the past Winter. It has been suggested to the Department that a Sale of the lots land composing the Doncaster Indian Reserve would be advisable in the interest of settlement, and would not be disadvantage on the Indians. I shall be glad to have the benefit of your opinion on these points in order that the Dept may be assisted there in the coming to a conclusion as to the advisability or otherwise of submitting a proposition to the Indians to surrender the land for sale. I have th H to be S Y.O.S. (Your obedient Servant.)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 188 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 29- From March 12th 1874, post from C.E. Belle the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office, to E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior exposing his agreement to selling the reserve for settlement which could also be advantageous to the Indians. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 189 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 30- From March 12th 1874, post from C.E. Belle the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office, to E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior exposing his agreement to selling the reserve for settlement which could also be advantageous to the Indians. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 190 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 On the bottom left corner this notice reads as: “Le” C.E. Belle’s letter of 12 May 1874 M. Belle (the Crown Surveyor at Timber Office)say that they have not licensed a renewal ... 10th November 73 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 191 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 31 “A license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” The commissioner of Crown lands for the Province of Quebec has made application to the Department, to bonis those...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 192 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 32 ““Those lands into market and to sell to actual settlers:- And upon reference of the matter to C.E. Belle Esq of the Crown Timber agent at Montreal, to his opinion, (as he has had the Timber busnies (Business) of the Department in connection with that Reserve in his hands) Mr Belle says. I beg to state that I have no doubt that if that part of the Indian reserve in Doncaster was offered for settlement purpose, that the same could be easily sold to settlers; and if the conditions of sale encre such as to protest the timber from being cut as long as the purchase money would be unpaid and with the proper care against the trespassers, the Indians would certainly Profit by the sale of their reserve Respectfully recommending that ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 193 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 33 On the bottom left corner of the page this note appears: “? Lands in Vic. ... are sold by the Crown land Dept for 30 cents per acre payable in 5 annual instalments With interest- The timber on the Doncaster lands is of superior quality.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 194 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 33 “...that a proposal to surrender these lands to be sold for their benefit be submitted to the Iroquois Indians residing at the Lake of Two Mountains as well as to those of Caughnawaga; that if they assent a surrender be obtained from those bands in accordance with the provisions if the Act 31 Vic Cap 42 Sec. 8 sub sec. 142 and sec 9; that a survey of the lands be made and the land sold to actual ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 195 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 33 “...settlers at the rate of fifty cents per acres, by an Agent to be appointed in the vicinity, who might be compensated by a percentage of ten percent and all receipt in any one year Not exceeding $2000.00 and two & a half percent on all over that amount received in any one year. Settler not to be allowed previously to the land being paid for in full to cut the timber on their lots for the purpose of selling it excepting under...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 196 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 34 “... under license issued by the Agent to whom the dues shall be paid in accordance with the Tariff and the Regulations, and be credited, as part of the purchase money, upon the lot upon which the timber is cut. Payment for the land to be made in the proportion of one fifth of the purchase money at date of sale, and the balance in four equal annual instalments with interest, at 6 percent from date of sale.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 197 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 31-34 Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs on May 25th, 1874 write exposing the creation of Doncaster and the “license covering the timber upon the reserve was in the year 1869 issued to Mcphers Couching Bros of Repentigny but they declined to renew last season. Consequently the licence has issued.” Page 34 “Patent for any lot not to issue, until it be proved by affidavit of two credible persons, that a house, of the dimensions at least of 18 x 24 feet, has been built thereon; and that one fourth of the quantity of land purchased is under cultivation and properly fenced. – All respectfully submitted. L. Vankoughenet DSGIA (Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs)” Indian Branch, Ottawa, 25 may 1874 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 198 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 35 On June 15 1873, E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior wrote: page 1 “Doncaster Indian reserve The commissioner of Crow Lands for the Province of Quebec recommends that with a view to the progress of settlements the Conceding of about 16,000 acres Indian reserve in the township of Doncaster be offered for sale to actual settlers. As the reserve is not now or soon likely to be occupied by the Indians and does not yield there any pecuniary advantages and as it is difficult to prevent Squatters from settling on it and plundering it of its merchantable timber, which would very much lessen its value, the undersigned would respectfully recommend that, in accordance with the recommendation of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Quebec early steps be taken to procure the consent of the Indians for its surrender in order that it may be...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 199 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 36 On June 15 1873, E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior wrote: page 2 “be subdivided and sold for their benefits under the provisions of the vic: cap 42: Sec 8 and in this view that a proper person be appointed to assemble the Indians interested in the Reserve and to submit the matter for their consideration E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior.” Approved 15 June 1874 Rinfret August 12, 1874. “Respectfully recommends that Mr de Boucherville who has been sent to Caughnawaga on official ensigns be authorized, while there to bring the matter of surrendering their lands before the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and upon his way, houses wards, to bring the same subject before the Iroquois of...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 200 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 37 On June 15 1873, E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior wrote: page 3 “... of the Lake of Two Mountains and if possible, obtain from them a surrender of the tract of a plan in question to be sold for their benefit. Indian Branch August 11, 1874 L. Vankoughnet DSGIA (Deputy Superint. Gen. of Ind. Affs)” E.A. Meredith, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 201 ANNEX: From Stanford University Library: Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, Volume 10; Volume 25, Issue 10, By Canada. Parliament. 42 42 "Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement, Canadian Parliament, 1892, from Stanford University Library. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 202 From Stanford University Library: Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, Volume 10; Volume 25, Issue 10, By Canada. Parliament Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 203 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 38 PROPOSAL OF SURRENDER « J.V. de Boucherville Esq of Care of JE. R. Pinsonneault Esq « Mission apart August 15, 1874 Caughnawaga p.2 Sir, As is thought advisable to bring with market and make a source of profit to those acres of the Indians the land in the township of Doncaster in the County of Montcalm p.2 which was set apart and appropriated under the Statute 14-15-Vic Cap. 106, for the Council of the Iroquois Indians of Caughna- waga and Lake of Two Mountains, but has never been settled on by any of those Indian. The Supr Genl of Ind, Affs. desires me to authorise you to submit to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga a proposal to surrender the land in question to be disposed of by the Dept for their benefit. The money received for the land will be placed at interest add to the revenue of this band. A similar surrender will also have to be obtained from the Iroquois of the Lake of Two Mountains, and you are...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 204 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve page 38 Note on the left side: (Absolutely speculative) “#2 at a hunters ... calles speaking full purpose, clear hunting you and by M Asting Sup. Gen of Indian Affairs ... & Alter” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 205 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 39: left side “... are likewise hereby authorised to submit to those Indians your return trip housewards a similar proposal. A tracing of the map of the Reserve is enclosed with form of surrender to be executed by the Chiefs of each band and the necessary affidavits of execution to be attested by yourself and one of the principal chiefs of each Band before the nearest resident judge: you should explain to the Indians that owing to the advance of Settlement in the part of the County where the reserve in question lies, it is difficult to protect the lands from being squatted on, and the timber from being pillared and that it is far more to their interests to dispose of the land, than to have lying idle, and every year depreciating in value, as the timber is removed from it. Ø A Copy of the last Indian Act 31 Vic Cap 42 & 32-33 Vic Cap is enclosed herein for your Guidance. I am S (Sir) Y.O.S. (Your obedient servant) P.S. the forms of surrender will be prepared & forwarded on Monday.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 206 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 39 on the right side: “Ø Mr Pinsonneault will be directed to call a special council of the Caughnawaga Indians for submission by you of this matter to them on such day as you may appoint name, and you will please notify the head Chief of the Iroquois of the Lake of Two Mountains of the day you will visit that place for the same purpose and in the meantime he will be requested to summon a special council to meet you on whatever day you may name. “You will be careful to (Speculative transcription) en note a provision an expect ... carried out with “health” of the proposed surrender.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 207 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 40 (note on top (dfs 2417) “Grand Chief of the Augs 17th, 1834 Iroquois of the Lake Of Two Mountains Oka p.2 Sir, Some twenty three years ago Her Majesty the Queen ordered 16,000 acres of land in the township of Doncaster in the County of Montreal in the present Province of Quebec, to be set apart for the benefit of her Majesty’s loving subjects, the Iroquois of the Two Mountains and the Iroquois of the Seigniory of Sault St. Louis or Caughnawaga h’s order that should your people or those of Caughnawaga desire to take up land for farm for farming purposes there on might have an opportunity to do so. As neither zero no land has been taken up for that purpose and owing to the advance of settlement, it is now almost impossible to present white people from settling and the land without authority...” H f Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 208 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 41 “...and from stealing the wood there from it is thought by the Sup Gen of Ind Affs that it would be better and more conductive to your the interests of your people to dispose of the same for the joint benefits of yourselves and the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and it is according an officer of this Dept Mr J.V. de Boucherville propose as been instructed Ø to submit the properties subjects surrounding the tracts of lands in question for the consideration +I of your people in each Council and he will be prepared to take have a surrender of the said land from you executed by yourself and the principal men of the Iroquois of the Lake of Two Mountains should you be disposed to agree thereto. The land would then be surveyed into lots and sold for money invested and the interest thereon would be periodically divided among your people, which would be far better then having it lying idle and every year depreciating in value. I am Y.O.S.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 209 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 41: note right side "Ø inform you if the day on which he will visit your people in order that you may call a special Council of the Iroquois on that day Mr de Boucherville who will their.(prepared)” j “+I what he has been acting Sup Agent of Indian Affairs Dep Authorized ˂˗attend” “Mr Butler will please write A similar letter to this to The head chief of the Iroquois Inds of Caughnawaga.” Thomas John Butler was an Indian Agent Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 210 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 42 Letter of Pinsonneault, Indian Agent suggesting Mohawks to surrender page 1 3 2417 “J.E. Pinsonneault, August 15, 1874 Ind. Agt. Caughnawaga Sir, The actual I.G. of Ind. Affs. had though it advisable to submit to the Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga a proposal to surrender their interests in the tract of land in the Township of Doncaster set apart for the Indians benefit of those Ind & the Iroquois of the M. of Two Mountains many years ago but which has been used by the Indians of either Band –with a view to the land being (cold) and the money used cold for the benefit of those Indians, and as Mr de B. (Boucherville) of this Dept. was present of Caughna- waga and other Ensigned the Act S.G has authorized such proposi- tion to submit to the Indians as a meeting to be specially called for that purpose and obtain a surrender from them of they will agree to give and (give and or quittance: old terminology for surrender) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 211 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 43 Letter of Pinsonneault, Indian Agent suggesting Mohawks to surrender, page 2, Ending with this note : “You will accordingly consult with Mr de B. (Boucherville) as to the day according- lee will be prepared to attend at such meeting, and you will summon a special meeting for the purpose named. I am” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 212 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 44 17 July 1890, a license ground rent and renewal: account of this license of Timber “License no.69 Doncaster Indian Reserve A bonus of $200 has been paid in account of this License & timber ... to the amount of $683, also $139 for ground rent and renewal fees Spruce and Cedar Timber only may Be cut under this license. E.H.R. I.A.O. (Indian Agent Official)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 213 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Details about Indian Agent Pinsonneault, pages 217-223 The first 2 years of the new Indian Agent Joseph Euclide Rosario Pinsonneault took the place of Jean Baptiste Delorimier on May 13, 1873. His new career started with his swearing-in ceremony at the Headquarters entitled - Order in Council recommending the appointment of Joseph E.R. Pinsonneault as Agent for Caughnawaga and Oka Reserves. 43 The Copy of the report of a committee of the Honorable the PRIVY COUNCIL approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 13 of May 1873. “On a memorandum dated May 5, 1873, from the Honorable Mr Aikins (Senator James Cox Aikins)acting as Secretary of State for the Province of Quebec recommending the appointment of Mr Joseph Euclide Rosario Pinsonneault, as Agent for Indian Affairs, in the Seignory of Sault St. Louis and the Lake of Two Mountains, in the room and place of E.N Delorimier, Esquire ensigned. The acting Secretary of the State submits that the salary of the Indian Agent shall be $400 per annum and that he shall ensign at Caughnawaga where the Department will endeavour to obtain a residence for him. That this arrangement will offer the required facilities for surprising the sale of liquor without Licence, and the disposing of it to Indians, of which the chiefs have continually complained. That 43 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door, Kahnawake weekly paper, “Pinsonneault: Indian agent for Sault St. Louis and Two Mountains”, Kahnawake, July 22, 2016. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 214 it will also enable the Agent to prevent Squatters assuming unauthorized possession of Indian lands; and likewise to detect and punish the cutting of wood without License. The Committee advise that the above mentioned appointment made as proposed by the acting Secretary. Certified, Mr Aikins, Secretary.” Then, on November 8, 1873 Pinsonneault was initiated to do the census of the Two Mountains population which he sent to his superior, Lawrence Vankoughnet, the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs on November 21. 495 people were recorded including: 429 Mohawks: -those considered as ADULTS, 21 and older, they were 111 males and 96 females. -those considered as YOUTHS, 12 to 21, they were 33 males and 44 females. -those considered as CHILDREN, birth to 12, they were 72 males and 73 females. And 66 Algonquins: -those considered as ADULTS, 21 and older, they were 25 males and 14 females. -those considered as YOUTHS , 12 to 21, they were 5 males and 3 females. -those considered as CHILDREN, birth to 12, they were 15 males and 11 females. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 215 In another document from August 20, 1874, entitled, Caughnawaga Agency - school and census returns for the Iroquois of Oka and Caughnawaga, one of the first tasks of Pinsonneault, the new attested Indian Agents were given, starting with a census of the students who were attending school in both Caughnawaga and Two Mountains. The document was entitled: “Department of the Interior, Indian Branch, 1874, JEK Pinsonneault, Indian Agent, Caughnawaga. With school and census returns of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga for the year ending on 20th of August 1874.” He recorded the number of students who attended starting with Caughnawaga: “Census Return of the Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga made on the 6th of August of 1874.” A column was entitled TRIBE: where 1485 Mohawk were mentioned, 4 Algonquins and 1 Huron. For Mohawks; -those considered as ADULTS, 21 and older, they were 364 males and 423 females. -those considered as YOUTHS, 12 to 21, they were 119 males and 91 females. -those considered as CHILDREN, birth to 12, they were 241 males and 247 females. For Algonquins: 2 men and 1 woman were 21 and older and 1 male child below 12 were recorded. Also 1 Huron, a woman 21 and older. In the last column for Remarks, it is written: “Recognized by the Chiefs”. By comparing it with the 1871 census who counted 1438 Mohawks; -462 were 12 years old and below: 243 were men, 219 women. -101 were 12 to 21: 52 were men, 49 women -167 were 22 and older: 77 were men, 90 were women. At the bottom below, Pinsonneault wrote: “In a subsequent Return in file 3778, the total numbers given are 1557, on account of several having in the meantime, come home from voyaging.” Since many of them which were then in Circus shows and in hunting trips. Another note below mentioned: “Subsequent return 54, second remark on Caughnawaga returns (over).” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 216 In another Report, not by Pinsonneault but, by the Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada, included a sub-report from the Laval Normal School for the scholastic 1870-71, from the Minister of Public Instruction, a chapter entitled “Extracts from Reports of Schools, managed from 1869-70”, from Inspector Delage, was exposing the population of “pupils attending school” in the County of Laprairie which he described as: “The school of this village is a mixed school under the charge of Mr E.R.A. Fletcher and his wife. It is attended by 173 ‘pupils, all young Indians, descendants of the Iroquois. Very little progress made, notwithstanding the zeal and devotedness of the teachers.”44 For the Two Mountains 1874 census, his updates were: 415 Mohawk people were registered, on the 6th of August as well. -those considered as ADULTS, 21 and older, they were 105 males and 96 females. -those considered as YOUTHS , 12 to 21, they were 33 males and 44 females. -those considered as CHILDREN, birth to 12, they were 66 males and 71 females. Also here of course, the Algonquins were mentioned, 71 people as: -those considered as ADULTS, 21 and older, they were 20 males and 20 females. -those considered as YOUTHS, 12 to 21, they were 3 males and 3 females. -those considered as CHILDREN, birth to 12, they were 15 males and 10 females. After 1851, most Algonquins left to Kitigan Zibi, AKA Desert River, where 60% of the Algonquins and several Nipissings moved. 44 Report of the Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada, a report from the Laval Normal School for the scholastic 1870-71, from the Minister of Public Instruction, a chapter entitled “Extracts from Reports of Schools, managed from 1869-70”, From University of Michigan. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 217 In comparison, here is the 1871 census analysis of the Two Mountains-Kanesatake showed 409 people: -136 were 12 years old and below: 62 men, 74 women -100 were 12 to 21: 54 men, 46 women -173 were 21 and older: 75 men, 88 women The first part was exposed only 2 persons: the School responsibles; E.R.A. Fletcher and Catherine Fletcher. It was actually made before the other censuses mentioned who were conducted on August 6th, this one was made on June 30th, 1874. He received $250 and his wife Catherine $100. Also another column details the gender of their students, exposing 102 boys and 43 girls. It ended with this last page were Pinsonneault wrote: “I must tell you that this number of residents of those who are recognised by the Tribes, by the Chiefs, and I hope that you will find this census in order. I am Sir, Your Obediant Servant JCR Pinsonneault, Indian Agent,” An article, from The Montreal Herald newspaper of July 16, 1874 was added to the census and cited: “The yearly examination of the pupils of the Caughnawaga Indians school took place yesterday which created no little excitements in the village. The Indians are by no means without intellect, [...]. Much credit is due to the Teacher Mr E.R.A. Fletcher for the interest he has shown in his labors among the Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 218 From October 29 to November 2, 1875, Pinsonneault was now more experienced. He was contracted to prepare the “List of distribution to Indians of the Lake of Two Mountains for Fall of 1875. $2.” from the collection entitled: CAUGHNAWAGA AGENCY - Oka Reserve - Agent J.E.R. Pinsonneault sending the list of distribution monies It started with the “Money distribution to the Two Mountains (Oka) Savages, by the Agent J.E. Pinsonneault, October 28, 1875. List of family (48) chiefs who received the amounts of money for them and their family: under the Roman Catholic denomination: Pinsonneault conducted it with Francis Moore for the Catholic population.” The total of the sums allowed to each: $0.24 Amount given to the family: $55.92. On the last column the censor Pinsonneault wrote: “I Subsigned, recognise having received the amount of money to give to those with the names written on the same line he signed.” Laurent Dicaire 1,92 Thomas Anetenre 0,96 Pierre Dicaire 2,54 Basil Gareau1,20 Charlie Mikon 2,16 Andre Tchonatahen 0,96 Pierre Toronhioton 1, 68 Jean Baptiste Lakop 2,16 Catherine Kakwirishon 0,72 Pierre Thaisakentise 1,68 Marie Sose Chako, 1,20 Ignace Sohenrese, 1,44 Louis Sotsienhawane (or Sotsienhawane) 0,48 Louis Nikarontera, 20 Marie Kawennahere 0,48 Michel Tesowennatson 1,68 Angelique Karontiaronkaras 0,48 Ignace Atinnion 1,20 Francois Jako 0,96 Bernard Atiatonenti 0,48 Annes Tetiotkon 1,44 Hyacinthe Kentarontie 1,68 Marie Kanonkwasson 0,96 Michel Thiorakaron 1,20 Francois Marry 2,20 Pierre Jenki 1,44 Rene Ahonhiawente 0,72 Louis Tawente 1,20 Kristine Canard Blanc 0,96 Jacques Teshonarenion 0,96 Martin Kasennakenha 1,68 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 219 Elisabeth Kanenharentha 0,96 Caroline Kawennotas 0,49 Simon Mikons 0,44 Thires Ottawa 0,24 Osabikwi 0,24 Basil Mary 2,16 F. Mochaki 1,68 Jacques Mary 0,72 Martin Nonsawenrat 0,44 Antoine René 1,20 Catherine Thahonwentsoren 1,20 Hustache Soteriioskon 0,72 Martin Kaianerensta 1,20 Brigitte Chawen 0,24 Amable Catiee 0,72 Karastik Kariwaiiens 0,96 Vincent Kapeia 1,20 Soasin Onenharakete 0,44 L. Kanenrakenhiate 1,26 S. Tehotinatake 2,20 J. Awennakenrat 2, 94 S. Shotsitsiowane 3.36 L. Aronhienens 0,84 S. Kontiti 2.10 R. Aionwahes 3,78 S. Tekaonwaren 1,68 At. Katsitenriio 2,10 R. Karenhotase 2,52 L Akwirente 1,26 At. Sokakenrie 2,52 S. Karonhakwen 2,94 H. Karenhaton 0,84 L. Tehoronhiannsen 3,36 B. Tsiakenriio 1,68 L. Satawennonten 1,26 At. Tewaennonsen 1,68 S. Katsienhianton 3,36 S. Sakowaes 1,26 M. Taronhiawakon 3,78 L. Mikon 1,68 N. Tekanatoken 5,46 G. Anonwatekha 1,68 S. Tawensete 1,26 At. Shononsese 1,68 S. Anaietta 1,26 S. Tiahokatte 2,94 W. Takerihonti 1,68 Al. Sahensatta 1,68 At. Aronhiakete 1,26 E. Kaienkwire 2,52 J. Kanenharinton 3,78 N. Skaionweio o,84 P. Teiokerensere 1,68 S. Tehotakeraton 1,68 P. Haheroskon 3,78 W. Sokowentetta 1.26 Ch. Kapeya 2,10 P. Taratiron 1,68 J. Tianetorens 2,52 F. Tatenstra 1,68 L. Sakowenniake 2,94 J. Tonniontakwen 2,10 W. Kaeroton 1,26 S. Tsiseraken 1,68 Th. Katsitsiawaks 1,26 P. Waniente 1,68 W. Onwakerha 1,26 W. Shoriwaenton 1,26 R. Kwenhentense 1,26 J. Shorihawane 1,26 L. Taiohawis 0,85 S. Awenharison 0,84 O. Katenies 1,26 P. Kariwiio 1,68 M. Akwiraes 1,26 B. Konstaiesron 1,68 A. Skanaie 0,84 M. Wisken 1,68 K. Kanakweiiosta 1,68 P. Karatoron 1,68 S. Taiokenniate 1,26 A. Karenhon 2,94 A. Karonhiaronkwas 0,84 S. Kwanerataienni 1,68 M. Tekonwatontie 0,84 S. Sakorakaronko 0,84 Tehanakorens 2,52 C. Sennaiewas 1,68 B. Katsitsientha 0,84 M. Katsirakeron, 1,84 M. Thoronhiawakons 1,26 B. Anetawasks 0,42 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 220 The second and last list was entitled: “List of (72) family chiefs who received the amounts of money for them and their family: under the Methodist denomination: Conducted by Pinsonneault with Joseph Onasakenrat for the Methodist population.” The sums allowed to the Methodists was bigger considering their large population compared to Catholics: Jos Onasakenrat 2,25 Total of the sums allowed to each: $0.42 Amount given to the family: $144.06 It ended with a letter sent from Pinsonneault to the Minister of Interior at Indian Affairs, Mr David Laird: “Caughnawaga, October 29 1875, Sir, I have the honor to enclose lists of distribution of money and blankets which made on the 28th to the Lake of Two Mountains Indians, and I beg to state that I retained the money of five Indian families of that place whose names are inscribed in the list of indians under the Methodist denomination. I did so because those families had left there, and it was uncertain whether or not they will return. These are the names of the heads of five families, and their number-Total are due t them $13, 44 which I shall pay to them if they return.” The list went as: L. Tehoweiakenrat 3,78 S. Kwanerataienni 1,68 J. Tanetorens 2,52 P. Tahenekorens 2,52 L. Sakowenniake 2,94 Total of the sums allowed to each: $0.48 Amount given to the family: $13.44. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 221 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 45 17 July 1890 “Corres br (Correspondence brought) ack to Mayor Forget And other signers the receipt -through the Dept of Stats for Petition praying that measures may be taken for the settlement of the Indian reserve in the Township of Doncaster say that the petition will be card before the supplier on this return to Ottawa from Wm he is now absent (William Stewart) say further that the statement embodied in the petition that the Reserve bruise in cause to the Indians and that the timber is being plundered is incorrect because the reserve is under access and the lands derive oo very...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 222 Another correspondence from May 26-28, 1890 The colonization plan of Doncaster then reached a peak, presented in a letter titled “Enclosing a petition signed by the inhabitants of Doncaster asking the abolition of subdivision of the Indian Reserve in Doncaster,” the Department of Crown Lands on May 26-28, 1890 replies about a request from the Priest Lajeunesse from Ste-Lucie in the County of Doncaster, requesting, in the name of the citizens of the parish, the abolition of the subdivision of the “reserve of Savages” in Doncaster. “Request to the Honorable Commissary of Lands, relative to the reserve in Doncaster Canton. Honorable Sir, We subsigned, livings in the Canton of Doncaster are asking humbly for you to use all your influence to make disappear the reserve of savages in our Canton and to survey all the land. This reserve is containing a huge number of excellent lands proper to agriculture situated in the middle of lands owned by French-Canadians population close to our village, and it is being looked as an anomaly which all would like to see disappear. Besides, it cannot be of any utilities for the savages who will never come, since the wild games are lacking. Also, this territory is now being victim of pillage from all sides, the wood is stolen. Also the quickest it will be surveyed, less damages will be recurred. We are finding that the Doncaster reserve is a great obstacle in the development of the colonisation of our locality. Our municipality is tightened and is suffering since this reserve is containing the third of the Canton. So for this reason, Honorable Sir, we are hoping that you will welcome our request and we won’t stop praying for Ste-Lucie of Doncaster. May 26 1890 Signed (12 people signed) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 223 Page 46 Letter of 17 July 1890 1st page Page 107 786 Return to Correspondence Branch Noe Forget, Esq Mayor Ste Lucie de Doncaster P.2 July 19, 1890 “Sir, With reference to the petition of yourself and others of date the 6th inst, addresses to Her Excellency the G.G. (Governor General) in Council And which has been transferred to his Depart, for action praying of the Indian reserve In the township of Doncaster, I have to inform you that the same will be laid before the Supr Genl of Indian Affairs upon his return to Ottawa I may add, how ever, that The statement Embodied...” A.N. Wm signed under the mention “That measures be taken for the settlement.” Another mention below: “Wm Stewart Please see Mr Sinclair’s means under in red inks.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 224 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 46 Letter of 17 July 1890 2nd page “... embodied in the petition that the Reserve brings no benefits to the Indians and that the timber is being plundered, is incorrect because the Reserve is under license and the Indians derive a very considerable addition to their funds from dues in the timber taken there from. I am Y C.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 225 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 47 Letter of 20 September 1890 from Secretary Branch of Indian Affairs: page 1 Doc 107 786 “Noe Forget Esq. Mayor Ste Lucie de Doncaster P.Q. Sir, Having further reference to the Pe- tition from yourself and others, dated 6th July last to His Excellency the Governor General in Council which was transferred by the Hon the Secy’ of State to this Dept for action proposing that measures be taken for the settlement of the Indian Reserve in the township of Doncaster, I beg to inform you that the Iroquois settled at Caughnawaga refused some years since to surrender their interest in the above tread of land which was set apart for the joint benefit of those Indians and of their brethrens of the Lake of Two Mountains of old Canada many years ago under the Statute 14-15 Vic cap 106. There is no doubt that the Iro- quois Indians of Caughnawaga have not sufficient land for occupation by themselves...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 226 PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE, 1873-1890, Microfilm reel C-11234, Petition from the Indian of Ste Lucie of Doncaster for the survey of certain Indian land on the reserve Page 47 Letter of 20 September 1890 from Secretary Branch of Indian Affairs: page 2 Page 107 786 “... and their young men and they doubeten look forward to, at some future time, some of their young men taking up the vacant lands in Doncaster for the purpose of farming them. I Have the honor to be Sir, Your Obedient Servant.” END OF REEL G Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 227 Chapter 4: Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters 1897-1905 45 The period ranging from 1897 to 1905 is exposing the several attempts from Squatters of Ste. Lucie to obtain grants from the government in order to legitimize their own developments in the Doncaster reserve, despite the clearly established rules mentioned in the correspondences concerning its creation and purposes. The conflictuous situations in which the Squatters and the Mayor of Ste Lucie of Doncaster did all they possibly could to obtain clemency to keep promoting their developments in Doncaster, before the effect of the Chrome Mining Company precedent of 1920, is exposed in a memorandum-note from 22 January 1896, from the Ottawa’s Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to E. L. Newcomb, Esq, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa. “Sir, I beg to enclose this 34 070 of this Department containing correspondences respecting Squatters in the Doncaster Indian Reserve and would refer to Memorandum of 3rd December 1893 which gives a summary of the correspondence and also to letter addressed to Agent Brosseau on the 9th Ultimo and his reply of the 10th instant in which he states that the Indians are quite determined neither to lease nor sell the Reserve for any consideration and if the Squatters have made improvements thereon, the Department should charge them a rent for the land in as much as the Tribe requires the land for some of its mem- bers. Will you be good enough to advise me, under the circumstances whether the Department could succeed in a suit of ejectment against these trespassers or whether it could charge a rental for past use and occupation of the land and also for future use and occupation without a Surrender having been obtained from the Indians. Your obedient servant Deputy Superintendent General Of Indian Affairs.” 45 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, LAC, MIKAN no. 2083454, reel C-11172, (301 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2163 File Part 2A. File number: 34,070. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 228 Louis Beauvais’s trial was announced by Henri D. Taschereau Judge at Superior Court exposing a court case on 9th February 1904: “This is to certify that Mr. Thibaudeau Rinfret was nominated “d’office” by the Court of Ste Scholastique, District Terrebonne to defend: JB Laurent, Frs Laurent and Louis Beauvais, indians of Caughnawaga & Oka, upon the representations of the latter that they had no attorney and they expected the Court to give them one. Seven indictments had been preferred against said Indians and their trials passed before the Criminal Court during 4-5-6-8- and 9 February 1904. Henri D. Taschereau, J.C.S. (Judge at Superior Court)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 229 Through the available archives from the given period, several court precedents and newspapers mentioned the court procedures in which Jean Baptiste Thires-Laurent, and Louis Beauvais, from Caughnawaga & Oka took part in the bench of the accused, but were released, on Thursday February 17, 1904. 46 Louis Beauvais on page 4 of the French Canadian newspaper called L’Avenir du Nord’s from 13 February 1904 46 L’Avenir du Nord, French Canadian newspaper from BAnQ, consulted on 17 May 2015: http://collections.banq.qc.ca:81/jrn03/avenirdunord/src/1904/02/11/164429_1904-02-11.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 230 “The Assizes of St. Scholastique We will not hear through full details the events which are taking place at the assizes of Ste. Scholastique. We will inform our readers only of the most interesting facts. JAIL VISIT The Grand Jury visited the jail, under the leadership of Mr President Alphonse Lafond, from Ste. Scholastique. They noticed that everything was in perfect order. The prisoners say they are perfectly well treated by Mr. Mirault, the jailer. AN INCIDENT When Louis Beauvais appeared before the tribunal, to answer the charges of theft, the Honorable Judge Taschereau asked him if he had a defender. Louis Beauvais in an Oka Indian. He seemed insulted by the request of the Court president.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 231 Louis Beauvais’s trial “After a nervous and eloquent gesture, as if he was trying to find word to pronounce, in his indignation, he cried out, defiantly with a strident voice, to the Hon. Judge Taschereau: “Tell to King that Louis Beauvais want a lawyer: it’s up to him to give me one.” The pride of this individual; the circumstance in which, prisoners behind bars, he placed the sovereign to his equal, with an air of disdain, which was the sensation created at the audience. The Court prayed M. Thibaudeau Rinfret, from the Legal Society of Prevost and Rinfret, to change the defense of Louis Beauvais. Mr. Rinfret was also the Barrister and Solicitor to J.B. Laurent. This last one, an Indian of Caughnawaga, was accused of theft with breaking in, of illegal detention of the property of another party. These misdeeds were committed at Ste. Lucie, in the Indian reserve of Doncaster. The plaintiff was M. Isidore Legault. This cause imposed to M. Rinfret at last minute, offered great difficulties. At the more so, the accused spoke neither English nor French. M. Michel Jacob served as the interpret. Despite all these obstacles, M. Rinfret succeeded in freeing his client Laurent. This is a brilliant success and we warmly congratulate M. Thibaudeau Rinfret. He had the talent of immediately grasping in this cause, studied in haste, the points of law capable of making it succeed, and he conducted his investigation with a consumed skill.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 232 Louis Beauvais’s “M. Thibaudeau won another success no less remarkable in the cause of Beauvais. Monday, M. Rinfret asked that the act of accusation brought to his client be abandoned. Beauvais is accused of tree theft at the amount of fourteen dollars, and in virtue of the Article 337 of the Criminal Code, this offense if of the exclusive jurisdiction of the peace judges, who must treat it summarily. The other articles of the code are applying to tree theft, for the amount of at least twenty-five dollars. The Crown answered to this motion telling that the accusation act is carried in virtue of the article 336 of the code. The Honourable Judge Taschereau, after hearing the advocacies, who have been very skilful on both sides, took the motion under advisement and rendered judgment on Tuesday. This judgment is very long and based on several articles of the Criminal Code, considering them numerous. The Hon. Judge maintained the pretentions of M. Rinfret, the lawyer of Beauvais, while deciding that it was a matter of principle that fines are punished by the courts mentioned in the statutes which concern them, and not by others. It is an exclusive jurisdiction, and in terms of tree thefts, it is a special jurisdiction, especially when the object in dispute is worth less than $25, as in the precedent case. Moreover as pointed out by the honorable president of the tribunal, if the court of the King’s Bench had jurisdiction in the matter, their would be an anomaly since the summary prescription being of six months, it would be followed by the individual could plead prescription before this tribunal and would be able in a court of superior jurisdiction. The motion of the accused is so, granted and the act of accusation is broken and cancelled. Beauvais is freed without delay.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 233 The article ends with other court cases mentioning Isidore Auge and Moise Forget, 2 Squatters taking part in the litigious legal history of the Doncaster’s claimers. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 234 From page 285 to 300 more details are presented by the Lawyer firm Prévost & Rinfret, Agents : Barristers, from St. Jerome, sending the legal bills, and several other accountancy correspondences with the collaborative ministers with the case. Here a letter entitled: The Department of Indian Affairs: In debt with Thibaudeau Rinfret, from 10 February, 1904, concerning Louis Beauvais and Francois Laurent (Thires). Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 235 The Department of Indian Affairs: In debt with Thibaudeau Rinfret, from 10 February, 1904, concerning Louis Beauvais and Francois Laurent (Thires). Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 236 Lawyer from Prévost & Rinfret, Agents : Barristers, from St. Jerome, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean on the 15th of May 1905 exposing: “In answer to your letter of May 6th, I beg to herewith enclosed an authorized account of my professional services in connection with trespass on the Doncaster Reserve and also at Oka. I wish to say that I have already forwarded to your de- partment an account dated February 10th 1904, which had been cer- tified correct by the two Crown Prosecutors and by the Clerk of the Crown. I have also a certificate from Judge Taschereau of the Superior Court of Montreal, who presided the trial and I hold it At your disposal. Hoping that the enclosed account will receive the early consideration of the Department, I beg to subscribe myself. Respectfully yours, Thibaudeau Rinfret.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 237 From May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 238 Page 2 of the report. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 239 Page 3 of the report. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 240 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Minister of Justice, exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 241 Page 2. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 242 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Department of Indian Affairs, a literal copy as the previous sent to Minister of Justice (on pages 290-292), exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered. (as seen for May-June 1905 on pages 170-173) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 243 Page 2. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 244 Page 3. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 245 On 7 June 1905 J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Secretary enclosed a $150,00 payment to Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, exposing that “it is not thought advisable to pay any cost in the Louis Beauvais case.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 246 Also, an attempt was made by the government in order to manage the transfer of the funds entitled to Doncaster towards the building and management of the Residential School A correspondence from 7 May 1902 by Chief John Dailleboust and Indian Agent Brosseau exposing the position of Caughnawaga about Doncaster after a special meeting in presence of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general. “At a special meeting of the Council of the Caughnawaga Band held at Caughnawaga in the 7th May 1902 in the presence of Mr. A. I. McKenna of the Department of Indian Affairs and Mr. A. Brosseau Indian Agent it was moved by Councillor J.S. Simpson and seconded by councillor J.B. Delorimier that after hearing Mr. McKenna’s statement in regard to the Doncaster Reserve and the report of the delegates of the Council who visited the Reserve be it resolved that the Caughnawaga Band shall not during the present year exercise as a band or underdealt their rights to the said reserve in order to give time for the conversation and development of a plan to provide a boarding school on the understanding that the Caughnawaga Band relinquish their rights to the reserve with a view to the same being given by them as a contribution to the school, of being understood by that Frank Thires who is at present at Doncaster may remain there so long as he does not, pending a settlement of the reserve question, interfere with the Squatters or any of them and that in the event of his doing so or threatening to do so he shall be recalled by the Council. Carried unanimously, Certified his John x Dailleboust mark Chief Councillor A. Brosseau Indian Agent” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 247 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Here remains the integrity of the transcription of the reel from page 1 of File 34070 Indian Affairs Branch, Doncaster reserve, Caughnawaga from 1897-1905. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 248 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 2 Henri D. Taschereau Judge at Superior Court exposing a court case on 9th February 1904: “This is to certify that Mr. Thibaudeau Rinfret was nominated “d’office” by the Court of Ste Scholastique, District Terrebonne to defend: JB Laurent, Frs Laurent and Louis Beauvais, indians of Caughnawaga & Oka, upon the representations of the latter that they had no attorney and they expected the Court to give them one. Seven indictments had been preferred against said Indians and their trials passed before the Criminal Court during 4-5-6-8- and 9 February 1904. Henri D. Taschereau, J.C.S. (Judge at Superior Court)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 249 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 3 Prévost & Rinfret Bassister, Avocat (lawyer) office, St Jerome, February 10th 1904 to Grignon & Fortier, Protonotaire de la Cour Supérieure dans et pour le District de Terrebonne for the Department of Indian Affairs, exposing that JB Laurent, Frs Laurent and Louis Beauvais were acquitted. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 250 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 4 File 34.070 memorandum POOR COPY, note: “This letter has been sent”. Ottawa, 22 January 1896, from Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to E. L. Newcomb, Esq, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa. “Sir, I beg to enclose this 34 070 of this Department containing correspondences respecting Squatters in the Doncaster Indian rd Reserve and would refer to Memorandum of 3 December 1893 which gives a summary of the correspondence and also to letter th addressed to Agent Brosseau on the 9 Ultimo and his reply th of the 10 instant in which he states that the Indians are quite determined neither to lease nor sell the Reserve for any consideration and if the Squatters have made improvements thereon, the Department should charge them a rent for the land in as much as the Tribe requires the land for some of its mem- bers. Will you be good enough to advise me, under the circumstances whether the Department could succeed in a suit of ejectment against these trespassers or whether it could charge a rental for past use and occupation of the land and also for future use and occupation without a Surrender having been obtained from the Indians. Your obedient servant Deputy Superintendent General Of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 251 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 5-6 Doc 191922, Letter from Ovide Beauchamp, Mayor and Leopold André Secretary Treasurer to the Municipality of Doncaster. October 19 1897. “Province de Quebec, Municipality of Doncaster To a General Session of the municipal Council of the Doncaster Township Held on site and on ordinary time of its sessions, Monday the fourth day of the month of October eighteen hundred and ninety-seven in accordance with the dispositions of the Criminal Code of the Province of Quebec, in which session were present Mr the Mayor Ovide Beauchamp and the councillors Remi Colin, Joseph Perron, Joseph Deslauriers aka Legault, Joseph Huot, Patrick Thouin, making a quorum under the presidency of Mister the Mayor. It is ordered and pronounced by resolution Of the Council as follow: Intended 1: That a great part of this Township belongs first, to a certain number of Savages as a reserve, and that those Savages aren’t residing in this territory, not being advantageous, as a good for hunting and fishing and that they do not derive any profits. Intended 2: SO this state of affairs Is detrimental For the inhabitants of this muni- cipality, by retrieving them a great number of arable lots whose owners would contribute to the financial charges, municipal and scholar, etc... Intended 3: That it could be open on this part of the Township of Doncaster good roads of exits for the settlers of the townships of Chilton and Chertsey... Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 252 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 5-6 Doc 191922, Letter from Ovide Beauchamp, Mayor and Leopold André Secretary Treasurer to the Municipality of Doncaster on 19 October 1897. Doc 191922 “... It is proposed by the councillor Remi Colin and seconded by the councillor Joseph Deslauriers aka Legault and resolute una- nimously unanimously that a humble address be presented to the Honorable Minister of Interior and to the Surintendent General of Indian Affairs, by exposing him the facts mentioned above and asking him to please take the necessary means in order to open to colonization this part of town- ship of Doncaster, which without it, would remain unproductive. And that Mister Raymond Prefontaine, member of the Parlie- ment be kindly requested to affirm our request to the Honorable Minister. Signed: Ovide Beauchamp, Mayor Leopold Andre, Secretary Treasurer Written below: “Real copy, signed L. Andre, Sec. Tres.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 253 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 7 Doc 191922 Petition sent on the 4th of October 1897 to the Honorable Henry G. Joly of Lobtiniere, Minister of Interior and General Surintendent of tribes of Savages. (Then: Clifford Sifton 1896-1905) “To the Honorable Henry G. Joly of Lobtiniere, Minister of Interior and General Surintendent of tribes of Savages. (Then: Clifford Sifton 1896-1905) Mister Minister The undersigned, all citizens of Ste Lucie of Doncaster, in the county Of Terrebonne, Province of Quebec Are exposing respectfully. 1° That a great part of the Township of Doncaster belongs to a certain number of Indians having been granted to them as a Reserve; 2° That since several years there is not any Savages residing in this reserve there are no hunting and fishing suffi- ciently on this territory to help them to survive and that they would not be able to retire any benefits through the possession of this land. 3° That this Reserve seriously harms the progress of our locality, that if these lots were granted by the government, a good number of colonies could be able to establish and to live in adequately that these settlers would help the other inhabitants of this township to support the municipal and school taxes, etc... 4° That could be open on this Reserve some good roads that would be of great utilities to the settlers...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 254 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 8 Doc 191922 Petition sent on the 4th of October 1897 to the Honorable Henry G. Joly of Lobtiniere, Minister of Interior and General Surintendent of tribes of Savages. Doc 191922 “... the townships of Chilton and Chertsey, by getting them close to places of business and from the crossroad line of Canadian Pacific etc... For all these reasons and many others Which will be too long to enumerate. The subsigned are begging you humbly Mr. Minister, to take the necessary procedures in order to be able to grant these various lots which without this, would remain unproductive. And our applicants will not cease to praise th Ste Lucie of Doncaster on this 4 of October 1897. Limoge Ptre Priest Ovide Beauchamp, Mayor Roch Thouin Joseph Perron, Councillor Israel Thouin Remi Collin, Councillor Alexandre Carriere Joseph Huot, Councillor Joseph Forget Joseph (his mark) x Deslauriers aka Legault Councillor I subsign certify that The names up here written were signed In my presence.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 255 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 9-10 Letter from Raymond Prefontaine, Solicitor, Barrister, 1709 Notre Dame Street, Montreal, 18 October 1897 to J.A. Smart, Deputy Minister of Interior in Ottawa, promoting the settlers by exposing that the Indians are not coming to live and exploit Doncaster. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 256 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 11 Memorandum letter from to J.A. Smart, Deputy Minister of Interior in Ottawa from October 19, 1897 to exposing to Mr McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs that the settlers claim to exploit the land should be granted. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 257 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 12 Memorandum of October 13, 1897 letter of McLean’s Secretary. A note on top: (another note from October 13, 1897 is unreadable) “Sir, The opinion calling for from the Dept of Hunting & Mines be seen has not been furnished although can be ... for tree timber ... of a law ... for Dept McLean” st “Ottawa, 21 October 1897. In relation to letter from Mr Prefontaine, M.P Of the Instant and enclosed Petition, in regard to the opening of for settlement of the Indian Reserve in the Township of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne, P.Q, I beg to state that this Reserve, containing about 16,000 acres, was set aside under 14 and 15 Vic, Cap 106 for the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and the Lake of Two Mountains Indians. There are number of White Squatters settled on nd the North West portion of that reserve and on the 22 January 1896, the Deputy Minister of Justice was asked for advice in regard to dealing with them. No opinion has yet been given by the Justice Department in the matter, although their attention was called to this letter on the th st 9 April 1896 and on the 21 August 1896. The file of Papers in this matter being with the Justice Department, I can only state that the Indians owning this Reserve were quite determined neither to grant a Surrender to Leave nor Sell the Reserve. As there do not appear to be any Indians resid- ing in this Reserve, It certainly would be in the interests of the two Bands owning the Reserve, to have the same dis- posed of, but this cannot be done without their consent. I may state that there is a Timber License current covering this reserve in favour of the Clarlemagne à Lac Ouareau Lumber for the Cedar Timber thereon. W. Adrs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 258 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 13 McLean answers his Department on 25 October 1897 by exposing to present situation expressed in the letter of the 22nd. 34 070/2 th “Ottawa, 25 October 1897 Sir, I beg to call attention to letter addressed nd you on the 22 January 1896 enclosing correspondence in relation to Squatters on the Doncaster Indian Reserve and asking advice as to whether this Department could succeed in a suit of ejectment against these trespassers or whether it could charge a rental for past use and occupation of the land and also for future use and occupation without a surrender having been obtained from the Indians. As the question of bringing this Reserve into the market is being pressed upon the Department by the Mun- icipality of the Township of Doncaster, I should be pleased to have an opinion from you in this matter at your early convenience. Your Obediant Servant McLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 259 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 14-15 Letter of October 25th 1897 by Raymond Prefontaine, Liberal MP answering the letter of McLean secretary of Indian Affairs from the 9th of October 1897 in which he clearly exposed that the permissions given by the Indians would be necessary in order to obtain a Surrender. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 260 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 14-15 Letter of October 25th 1897 by Raymond Prefontaine, Liberal MP answering the letter of McLean secretary of Indian Affairs from the 9th of October 1897 in which he clearly exposed that the permissions given by the Indians would be necessary in order to obtain a Surrender. He clearly exposes that: “Although, these Bands have been approached in Regard to surrending the Reserve for sale, they appeared to be quite determined neither to grant a Surrender for the purpose of sale or of leasing the Reserve.” Though he also exposed that: “There is at present a current Timber License covering this Reserve held by the Charlemagne & Lac Ouareau Lumber Company for the Spruce and Cedar Timber thereon, which under the existing Regulations of the Department, in case of surrender and sale of any Lot, would remain in force for a period of three years from the date of sale a re- gards the Spruce Timber. Yours Truly, McLean.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 261 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 16 James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) to McLean secretary of Indian Affairs, asking to have a report sent to his Agent to have him report on April 4, 1898; “as to the likelihood of the Indians assenting to the surrender of the Doncaster Reserve, were the question submitted to them. J.A” McKenna” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 262 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters McKENNA, JAMES ANDREW JOSEPH In January 1897 the new superintendent general, Clifford Sifton, selected McKenna as his private secretary for work connected with the department. Later that year he sent McKenna, along with Thomas Gainsford Rothwell, to work out a settlement with the British Columbia government regarding the administration of the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block, lands that the province had conveyed to Ottawa in order to assist the construction of a transcontinental railway. The second-class clerk was promoted to first-class the following year. In 1899 McKenna was chosen to join Indian commissioner David Laird and James Hamilton Ross of the North-West Territorial government in negotiating Treaty No.8 with the Indians in the District of Athabasca and northeastern corner of British Columbia, an area disturbed by gold seekers en route to the Klondike . The terms offered were similar to those in earlier treaties except that, on McKenna’s initiative, the option of taking land in severalty rather than in reserves was provided. His other proposal, that the Indians be given a lump sum in lieu of annuities, was rejected by Sifton on Laird’s advice. The treaty was successfully negotiated over the summer, with each commissioner following an exhausting itinerary. McKenna visited Fort St John (near Fort St John), B.C., Fort Dunvegan (Dunvegan, Alta), Fort Chipewyan, and Fort McMurray to secure adhesion to the agreement by various bands in meetings that were at times tense. Land claims from the mixed-blood population of the region were dealt with by separate commissioners who worked in conjunction with the Treaty 8 party. Such claims in the rest of the North-West Territories had not yet been satisfied fully and on 2 March 1900 two new commissions were established to handle them. McKenna and Major James Walker constituted the one for the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta. The large number of claims could not be settled in the allotted time and on 16 March 1901 McKenna was appointed sole commissioner to dispose of those remaining. He continued the work until 1904.47 47 E. Brian Titley, “McKENNA, JAMES ANDREW JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mckenna_james_andrew_joseph_14E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 263 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 17 J.D. MacLean, Assistant Deputy and Secretary, Department of Indian Affairs “beg to request that” James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general on 5 April 1898, to “ascertain at the earliest possible moment whether there is any likelihood of the Indians assenting to a Surrender of the Doncaster Reserve, were a Surrender submitted to them.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 264 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 18 Agent Alexander Brosseau exposing the position of certain Chiefs planning on going back to a traditional governance to MacLean, on 13 April 1898. 34070-2 page 197244 “Caughnawaga, 13 April 1898 Mister, Accusing reception of your letter th dating of the current 5 April No 34070/2, in link with the rent or the sales of the Reserve Doncaster, etc. In response, I have the honor to inform you that for the amount, it is not easy to obtain any report with the Indians on that matter: especially with the party of Old Indians who are pretending to be returning to the ancient election system of Chiefs, because they are opposed to all action on behalf of the government; though, I will try to obtain some in- formations from the principals and I will submit a report. I have the honor to be Sir Your Devoted Servant A. Brosseau Agent.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 265 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 19 Translation of the previous letter of 13 April 1895 of Indian Agent Alexander Brosseau exposing the position of certain Chiefs planning on going back to a traditional governance to MacLean. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 266 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 20-21 Letter of October 25th 1897 by Raymond Prefontaine, Liberal MP sending a letter to Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs. Page 232829 “House of Commons nd Ottawa, 2 April 1901 To the Honourable Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior Ottawa My Dear Minister Two or three years ago, if I remember well, I Presented to your Department a demand on the part of the tax- payers of Ste. Lucie, in the County of Terrebonne, asking that the Indian Reserve which is located in that place, be put up for sale. The reason given at that time was, that since twenty years there is not a single Indian living on the Reserve or within a radius of fifty miles. The Municipal Council of the parish of Ste. Lucie de Doncaster has now sent me a resolution, unanimously adopted, asking the same thing, which herewith en- close. I must say that I honour entirely in their demand and that, moreover, during the last campaign in the County of Terrebonne in which I was elected, I promised then that I would interest myself toward the abolition of said Indian Reserve. Their idea is that the Reserve should be sub-divided on proper lots and offer them for sale, through an agent located at Ste. Lucie. In my opinion, this step would be the best for the ad- vancement of said municipality and also for he advancement of other municipalities situated in the County of Montcalm. I would therefore, respectfully ask from you that you send one of your officers to inspect the Reserve and gi- ve an exact report of how the matter stands. The way to reach Ste. Lucie is by the C.P.R. ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 267 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 20-21 Letter of October 25th 1897 by Raymond Prefontaine, Liberal MP sending a letter to Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs. Page 232829 “... to Ste. Therese Junction, and thence from Ste. Agathe from which place it will be necessary to drive about five miles to reach Ste. Lucie. The trip could be made in two days easily. At Ste. Lucie, by applying to Mr. Leopold Andre, Secretary of the Municipality, your messenger will get the necessary information. I would consider it a personal favor if you will give your attention to his matter as soon as possible, so that I can give satisfaction to my people. I remain, Truly yours, Raymond Prefontaine. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 268 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 22 Letter from P. André Assistant Secretary Treasurer of Doncaster to Raymond Prefontaine Liberal Deputy MP. March 12, 1901. Page 232829 “Province of Quebec Municipality of Doncaster To His Honor Sir Raymond Prefontaine Mayor of the City of Montreal, and Federal Deputy in the County of Terrebonne. Sir, In my letter of the last November 24 on answer to yours from the 12 of the present concerning the works needed, wondering what was accomplished and what was left to be done, I will answer your question. Was remaining the question of the Reserve of Savages, so the municipal council of this municipality at the general session th of the current March 4 adopted at unanimity the following st resolution: 1 Considering that a great majority of the in- habitants of Ste. Lucie of Doncaster are unanimous to ask that the Reserve of Savages be banned and put for sales as soon as possible, that a great number of family fathers of Ste. Lucie and surrounding areas establish their children in this reserve. The th th hugest part being convenient for culture, that the 4 , 5 and th 6 roads being distant by only 2 or three miles of the church and the village, or that the Church and the vilage are built between the N° 29 and th the 5 road, the N° 30 being neighbour of the said Reserve, making that there are no inhabitants on the North and North-East side of Ste. Lucie. Consequently, the Councillor Benjamin Dufresne propose, seconded by the Councillor Eusebe Leroux, that the resolution above be adopted by the said Council, And that a copy be addressed to Mr. Raymond Prefontaine, Mayor of the city of Montreal and federal Deputy in the County of Terrebonne, praying him humbly to use all his influence to the Government at Ottawa. I have the honor to be Sir Deputy, Your devoted servant, Leopold Andre, Sec. (Secretary) Council of Doncaster Ste Lucie of Doncaster, March 12, 1902. By P. Andre, Assistant Secretary Treasurer.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 269 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 23 Reception confirmation to Prefontaine’s office from 9 April 1901 from William James Tucker. Doc : 34070 Ottawa, 9th April, 1901 (To Mr Prefontaine, House of Commons, Ottawa.) “Dear Sir, nd I am in receipt of your letter of the 2 instant, addressed to the Minister, enclosing the Resolution passed by the Municipal Council of the Parish of Ste. Lucie de Doncaster asking the Indian Reserve at that place be put up for sale. In reply I be to say that this matter will be given immediate attention and an officer of the Department sent to lock over the Reserve with a view of having a proper survey of it made. Yours very truly. William Jas. Tucker., Land Branch, House of Commons, Ottawa.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 270 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 24 Memorandum correspondence of April 17, 1901 to the Secretary of Indian Affairs by his assistant on 17 April 1901. File 34 070/2 MEMORANDUM To the Secretary "Ottawa 17th April 1901 In regard to proposed disposition of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, I beg to refer to my Memo- st random of the 21 October 1897, which gives the facts in connection with the Reserve. There has been no report in regard to the Squatters received from the Justice Department. In April 1894, Mr McKenna was authorised to attend a meeting of the Indians of the Caughnawaga Band as well as a meeting of the Indians of the Iro- quois Band of the Lake of Two Mountains and submit to them the question of surrendering interest in the Doncaster Reserve. It appears from Mr. McKenna’s report that Caughnawaga Band was unanimous in refusing to surrender and Mr. McKenna reported that such refusal was not base upon any idea of the Band’s making use of the Doncaster Reserve in the future and he believed that when the arrears due by the Censitaires had been collected and as an account pro- vided for spent in permanent works upon the Reserve, the Indians would very likely be ready to give a Surrender. Many Censitaires have paid their rents but there are still a number in arrear, against whom the Department has under consideration the question of taking action for collection of arrears. It is submitted whether the Surveyor whom I it is projected to send to look over the Reserve, should at the same time be instructed to submit Surrender to the Indians.” (Unidentified Secretary) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 271 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 25 Letter from 24 April 1901 from James A. Smart, Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs to pressure Surveyor in Chief Samuel Bray to “make an examination thereof with view of having a proper survey made” of Doncaster. Page 34 070/2 th “Ottawa 24 April 1901 Sir I have to request that you will pressed, as early as practicable, to the Doncaster Reserve, is the County of Montcalm P.Q. and make an examination thereof with view of having a proper survey made. I enclose Form of Surrender in Duplicate, and you are hereby authorised to submit the same to the Indians who own the Doncaster Reserve, with a view to its being disposed of for their benefit. Your obedient servant. Sct. Jas. A. Smart Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs Samuel Bray, Esq., D.L.S., Indian Dept., Ottawa Ont.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 272 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 26 Surveyor in Chief Samuel Bray answering a week later on 2 May 1901 to James A. Smart, Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, proposing his schedule to do so. 34 070 nd Ottawa, 2 May, 1901. “Dear Sir, I have received instructions to inspect the Doncaster Indian reserve, and to prepare a report thereon. I have then proceed to Caughnawaga, and from there to Oka, to obtain, if possible, a Surrender of the Reserve from the two parties. th I propose to leave Ottawa on Monday, the 6 Instant, but am unable to tell you when I will be in Caughnawaga, as I do not know how long the inspection of the reserve may last. I will, however, send you notice by wire, at the earliest possible date, in order that you may call the necessary meetings of the Indians, for the purpose of submitting to Surrender. In the mean time I shall feel obliged if you will inform the Chief and Councillors of what is proposed, and endeavour to impress them with the fact that it would be to their advantage to surrender the Doncaster Reserve. A. Brosseau, Esq Indian Agent Yours truly J.Bray. Caughnawaga.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 273 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 27 Council meeting of the Reserve of Savage of Caughnawaga, May 13, 1901. Francois Thires and Indian Agent Brosseau. (Transcribed on page 38) Page 234152 “Council Meeting of the Indian Reserve of Caughnawaga, May 13, 1901. Resolution 6.- Mr Jean Baptiste Ohweskon proposes, seconded by Mr John Sakowihe, who since the request reiterated by the Department of Indian Affairs from the Cession of the Reserve of Doncaster to the Department and by exposing facts for this purpose by M.S. Bray Ingenior in Chief of the Department to an assembly of Indians from the Band of th Caughnawaga, the 11 , that a request be made to the Department for the expense necessary for the travelling fees of the 3 Indians, including one named by the Band and two by the Council to make a visit of the Reserve in order to observe by themselves the facts exposed by Mr Bray, and the position of the said Reserve in order to prepare a Report to the Band, and to the Department, about the opinion which interfere by the this last one, related to the above-mentioned Cession, provided always that the expenses incurred and to incur are not being taken from the funds belonging to the Band of Caughnawaga. Adopted his Francois X Thires mark A Brosseau Indian Agent” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 274 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 28 (page 1/5) : Memorandum from 15 May 1901 of Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor to the Secretary of Indian Affairs. 234152 MEMORANDUM Ottawa 15th May 1901- "To the Secretary In accordance with the instructions of the th Deputy Minister, of the 26 Ultimo, I have visited the Doncaster Reserve and the Caughnawaga Band of Indians, and beg to report the follow- The Doncaster Reserve occupies the S.E. ¼ of the Township of Doncaster, in the County of Montcalm, P.Q. If the system of survey into which the remainder of the Township is divided, is projected across the Reserve, lots numbers 31 to 60 inclusive, in Range 1 to 6 would be within the Reserve, containing 16,500 acres. The whole of the Township of Doncaster (includ- ing the Reserve) and the surrounding Townships consist of steep rocky hills with practically no plains between them. The soil is without exception a sandy loan of medium quality. All the land surrounding the Reserve that will admit of any cultivation at all, has been taken up. The Settlers with great labour, cultivate the occasional tracts where the hills are not quite so steep and rocky. No one but those who are willing to work very hard and live very frugally can possibly make a living in this rocky, rough, sandy country. The Breas River, a small stream about 35 feet wide, enters the Reserve on the North boundary, at about Lot 50, and after traversing the Reserve, leaves it in Lot 30, Range 1, is the South boundary. Brock trout may be caught...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 275 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 28 Speculative transcription of the note written by the Indian Agent Mclean on the left side of the MEMORANDUM of 15 May 1901: "... as upons ... can ... be decided of sanction tion the of you Indian delegation of the Doncaster Reserve McLean 15th May 1901" Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 276 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 29 (page 2/5) Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor promoting the Squatters by saying: “It is evident that no Indians and very few White men could be induced to live on this land. The adjacent Settlers are the only people, who can or would be willing to make use of such an uninviting tract.” Page 243152 “... caught in this stream but in quantities not sufficient to be noted as a means of livelihood. There are small flats of sandy, gravelly land in the valley of this stream. There are also five small Lakes in the Reserve having an area of from 2 to 5 acres. A few deer and some bears are still to be found on the Reserve, but not in numbers sufficient to induce anyone to hunt them systematically. Fire as passed over the Reserve at different times (4 times within the past 30 years) destroying all timber except the Spruce in the valleys and an occasional tract of Maple on the hills. All the Pine has disappeared. There are eight clearings on the Reserve, on which there are small log houses and barns. There are five other clearing made by Settlers who live outside of the Reserve. All of these are near the Western and Northern boundaries. It is evident that no Indians and very few White men could be induced to live on this land. The adjacent Settlers are the only people, who can or would be willing to make use of such an uninviting tract. I am at loss to know why it was set apart as an Indian Reserve, as it has not one feature to recommend it for that purpose. The survey of the Reserve should undoubtedly be made to continuing through it the same system of survey in the Township. No severance of any consequence will be made of the clearings of the squatters by adopting this system as they have themselves roughly projected some of these lines. The lots will contain 100 acres each with the usual allowance for roads. The cost of the survey including replacing the boundaries should be...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 277 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 30 234152 (page 3/5) Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor. This mention appears on the left margin: “Exclusive of costs of survey, 38 C Mil. Cost survey.” Page 234152 “... be about $1500. I wired Mr. Agent Brosseau from Ste. Agathe, who duly called th a meeting of the Caughnawaga Indians on the 11 instant, I was informed that the Indians had already met and had decided they would not surrender. It appears they feel aggressed that some business matters with the Department have not been attended to with the promptness and in the manner they think they deserve. This together with the very real grievance of their Capital having been spent some years ago in a practically useless survey, has made them extremely suspicious of any step contemplated by the Department. I found this feeling prevailed at the meeting. However, they listened to my address very attentively. I laid great stress on the fact that they were asked to surrender the Reserve especially as an act of justice to the surrendering Settlers who found it a great disadvan- tage in not being able to collect taxes from the land for the construction of roads &c. They asked me a number of questions. In reply to one I informed them that 30. Cents an acre would be the lowest sum they would receive for say of the land and some of it would be sold for the higher price. The smallest sum to be received for the whole Reserve would, therefore be $5,500,00. It was evident that even if the sum to be realized was very much larger, it would not be an induce- ment for them to surrender. They stated very truthfully that the annual amount which would be paid to each individual from the interest derived from this sum every year, would be a trifle. I infirmed them I had no authority to mention or suggest an exchange of land for a more desirable locality such as near stream or Lake in a remote District...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 278 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 31 (page 4/5) Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor, trying to discourage the Mohawks to hope being entitled to Doncaster. A notice on the left side reads as: “Not one member of the Band ) with the exception of two, not there now) as ever visited the reserve.” 234152 “...District. They had stated that they were desirous of obtaining the Doncaster Reserve for the possible use of their children. I here pointed out to them how much and keep for their descendents, better it would be to obtain a desirable piece of land in another locality than to retain the Doncaster Reserve which is much a poor tract of land that is can never be of any real use to their descendents. They could insert any terms they thought proper in the Surrender. If the terms were approved by the Department, the Surrender would be submitted for acceptance to the Govern General in Council, and if not accepted by him the Surrender would be void. The suggestion to make an exchange of land evidently unsettled their decision not to Surrender. There are desirable localities for an Indian Reserve, to the North; the nearest to the Reserve being Cypres Lake or the Mattawan River. The Provincial Government of Quebec would probably be very willing to sanction the creation of an Indian Reserve in a more remote locality in exchange for the Doncaster Reserve . After some deliberation, the Indian Council decided that notwithstanding the fact that they fully believed all I had set before them regarding the Reserve yet they thought it was their duty to their people generally that three of their number should be proceed to the Doncaster Reserve and report thereon before they came to any decision in regard to the proposed Surrender. I asked them to make their proposal in the form of a Resolution of their Council. I beg to submit here- with the Resolution, together with a letter from Mr. Agent Brosseau. Please note that Mr. Brosseau is of the opinion that an exchange of land might be effected. I beg to recommend that the request of the Indians...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 279 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 32 (page 5/5) Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor, trying to discourage the Mohawks from being entitled to Doncaster. A notice on the left side reads as: “$42.00 will be required for the trips for the two delegates.” Also, only one delegate of each Band was suggested for the next visit. The 2/3 and 1/3 representative mathematical-occidental quota feature was not yet used as it is today in the management of Tioweroton. 234152 “...Indians be acceded to and that the necessary sum be advanced to them to defray the expenses of a visit of three of their members to the Reserve. O would draw attention to the fact that they stipulate this sum should be made a charge against their Band Funds. I would recommend immediate action, in order that the Indians may visit the Reserves before the trees are full leaf; They will thus be able to see with ease from three or more of the many high hills, over the whole Reserve, and it’s extremely rocky nature will not be hidden by the foliage. Should the foregoing be approved, I have to urge that the Oka Indians be requested to send a member of their Council or of their Band, to accompany the delegates from Caughnawaga to the Doncaster Reserve and that his expenses be also paid. I informed the Caughnawagas that I would recommend this suggestion. I may say I suggested that one delegate from Caughnawaga and one from Oka should be sufficient. I found it necessary, however, to accede to their views to the effect that if they sent less than three delegates the different sections of their Band would not be satisfied. $42.00 will be required for the trips for the two delegates. S. Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 280 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 33 Memorandum for the Secretary: travelling expenses, from 17 May 1901. $50.00. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 281 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 34 Document 34, 070/2ty, Memo to Bray, Surveyor from 17 May 1901 from J.D. McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs. th “Ottawa, 17 May, 1901 Memo: Mr. Bray.- (Surveyor) Will you be good enough to give further particulars as to the business matters with the De- partment for which the Caughnawaga Indians feel aggrieved, as stated on page 3 of your report. McLean secretary (of Indian Affairs) BELOW: “18 May 1901 Secretary, they stated there were questions relating to an unsettled mill case, the appointment, of a constable, the trespass of an individual on the commons Trespass to two toll gates. I positively declined to listen to anything in regard to these or any said matters as I have no authority to do so. In accordance with my request they confined themselves to the consideration of the merits of the proposed surrender of the Doncaster reserve. S. Bray.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 282 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 35 Memorandum from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs, from 18 May 1901 to his Superior, from 18 May 1901. Page 235046 Doc 34, 070-3Ty th “Ottawa, 18 May, 1901. MEMORANDUM The Deputy Superintendent General. I submit herewith Mr. Bray’s report of the result of his visit to the Doncaster Reserve and Caughna- waga. He failed to obtain a surrender, but suggested to the Indians the idea of enhancing this Reserve for other land. The Indians are not prepared to do anything fur- ther in the matter until a delegation visits the Doncaster Reserve and report to the Band. The cost of sending four delegates is estimated by Mr. Bray to be about $42.00. The Accountant points out that this can be charged to Man- agement Funds. I would not recommend, however, that the Depart- ment proceed further in this matter. The Doncaster Re-s erve, if sold would not realize much over $5,000.00 at 30 cents an acre and the settlers who would purchase are poor men and it would be some time before the Department would realize this sum for the benefit of the Band. The Indians have, from time to time, refused to surrender the Reserve, as they require it for the possible use of their children. I am sure that the Department could not pur- chase another tract for them for the money that we would receive for the Reserve even of surrendered and sold, and therefore, I think it is inadvisable to press the matter further. L. McLean Secretary (Of Indian Affairs)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 283 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 36 Memorandum from 29 May 1901 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs. Document 34, 070/2ty “Ottawa, 29th May, 1901 Memorandum: Deputy Supt. General. With reference to your Memo, regarding the Doncaster reserve, I am not clear as to whether you desire delegates to go to the reserve or not. If they go, it should be on the distinct understanding that the Department will not undertake to provide another re- serve for them in lieu of the present reserve. J.D. McLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 284 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 37 Letter from 30 May 1901 from Sct. Jas. A. Smart Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to his Secretary, J.D. McLean, exposing the purpose of the Ministry: to obtain the Surrender refused by the Mohawks. g Ref 34, 070/ 2ty “Ottawa, 30th May, 1901 Memorandum: Mr McLean, In my first ruling on this sub- ject, I decided that the delegates should be per- mitted to visit the Reserve, not understanding the situation as it was afterwards explained to me. The ruling now is that if the only condition on which the Indians will agree to the surrender of these lands is that they will get others in exchange, then the delegates should not undertake to visit the Reserve: but if the Indians desire to relinquish the lands because they have no fur- ther use for them, then I have no objection to the proposed visit, although there does not appear to be any special purpose to be served by it. Jas. A. Smart Deputy Supt. General.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 285 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 38 Letter, copy transcribed of the letter observed from Francois Thires on page 27, Council meeting of the Reserve of Savage of Caughnawaga, March 13, 1901. Francois Thires and Indian Agent Brosseau. Page 234152 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 286 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 39 Extract of the original: File 234143 from, 13 May 1901, by Agent Brosseau to the Secretary Mclean concerning Resolution 6 exposing: “Sir, ***** Resolution 6. This resolution was passed with the object of complying with the desire of the Depart- ment for the Surrender of the Doncaster reserve, but I fear very much that this expense will be useless and without success. ***** A. Brosseau, Agent.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 287 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 40 Letter from 4 June 1901 by JD McLean to Brosseau, his superior, exposing that: “referring to Resolution No.6, of the Minutes of the Indian Council held at Caughnawaga, 13th March, 1901, relating to the proposed Surrender of the Doncaster Reserve, I have to state that in view of the fact that the Indians are averse to the Surrender of the Reserve, it will be useless at the present time, to send delegates from the Band to examine the Doncaster Reserve.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 288 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 41-42 Letter from Raymond Prefontaine Liberal Deputy MP. in the of House of Commons from March 26, 1902 to James Smart Chamber, Esquire, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ottawa. “My dear Mr Smart, In relation to the Indian Reserve composed of 6000 acres, set apart in the Township of Doncaster, county of Terrebonne, parish of Ste. Lucie, reserve supposed to be for the Indians of Caughnawaga and Lake of Two Mountains, I must say that, after having exhausted all the legal means to have this reserve put up fir sale, I come to the conclusion that only way to proceed is to amend the law in such a way as to allow the department to settle this affair to the best of its judgement, As the matter stands now this reserve has not been occupied by the Indians since over 20 years and their unwillingness to ascent to the sale is purely a caprice and the only reason they give is that the money from the sale of the land should revert to them directly. Therefore, it seems, this is certainly a case in which the government should intervene as to render justice to the interested party. I will call to the department and talk over the matter with you some of these days, in the mean time you might think of it. Hoping that you had a very pleasant trip, I remain truly yours, Raymond Prefontaine.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 289 Solution exposing that the settlers could have their lands: bought by the government 1902 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 43 (Page 1/4) Letter of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) to James Smart Chamber, Esquire, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, 3 April 1902. Doc 34070 Page 246168 rd “Ottawa, 3 April, 1902 Mr. Smart, The Reserve referred to by Mr. Prefontaine was set Aside under the Statute of OLD CANADA fifty years ago. If we were to act upon the suggestion, the only way in which the Government could intervene in the face of the refusal of the Indians to surrender would be by an Act of Parliament. The land would then revert to the Province of Quebec as it was part of the Provincial lands previous to its being set aside. The justification for such action would be that when the land was set aside as a reserve, it was intended that the Indians should make use of it, and that their failure to do so shows that a mistake was made in setting it aside; but such action would be fraught with troublesome conse- quences. We have had a good deal of difficulty already in handling the affairs of the Caughnawaga Indians, and the whole Iroquois people would regard this as a high handed interference with property occured to them for half a century 48 with the result that our troubles would be manifolded. ” 48 Manifolded: old term designing having many, several folds, layers: exposing a complexity. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 290 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 44 (Page 2/4) Letter of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) to James Smart Chamber, Esquire, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, 3 April 1902. Doc 246168 (2) page “Moreover the precedent would be used by the local people who are pressing for the surrender of other reserves at different points, and we would find it more difficult to resist the pressure that every year would increase to have reserves thrown open whether or not the Indians surrendered them. You will remember that Mr Bray visited the Doncaster reserve and submitted the question of surrender- ing it to the Caughnawaga Indians and they refused. Before taking action they desired to send delegates to visit the reserve and report upon it because there was no one living among Caughnawaga Indians who has ever seen it. There are 18,000 acres in the reserve, and Mr. Bray put a minimum price of 30 cents an acre on it. The revenue to be derived from the sale did not appear to strike the Indians as of much importance, and ‘r Bray spoke to them u=in regard to a possible exchange of land with the Province. The agent did not think a surrender would be made even after a...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 291 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 45 (Page 3/4) Letter of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) to James Smart Chamber, Esquire, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, 3 April 1902. Doc 246168 (3) page “... delegation had visited the reserve; and ther the matter stands. I do not think the time has come when we should contemplate taking action without the consent of the Indians. The best we can do is to continue an endeavor to effect an arrangement with the Indians. I can understand that the Indians of Caughnawaga will be averse to releasing the reserve for sale unless they can see that a present appreciable benefit is ti accrue to them in lion thereof. Sale by the department to the settlers in the vicinity on payments extending over a number of years, so is the usual plan, would mean that we would have difficulty in col- lection, and that we would have similar trouble to that which we have in collecting the rents from the Censitaires for the same band. If we had an offer for the land en bloc with a cash payment and could go to the Indians with that offer, there might be some hope of getting them...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 292 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 46 (Page 4/4) Letter of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) to James Smart Chamber, Esquire, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, 3 April 1902. Doc 246168 Note on the left side: “I think this the best solution of the difficulty this matter to ...those such lands ... waste.” signed 9 April 1902 by James Smart Chamber, Esquire, Deputy Minister of the Interior (4) page “... to surrender under an arrangement which would provide for the expenditure or investment of the proceeds agreeably to them. “Failing” this if we could make an arrangement with the Province for an exchange of land, might get the con- sent of the Indians to a relinquishment of the present re- serve in consideration of setting apart of another. This would give the settlers the relief which Mr Prefontaine desires and might be acceptable to the Indians. It is a matter which requires careful handling and in which we will have to go slowly for the Iroquois will not be rushed in a matter of that kind. J.A. McKenna.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 293 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 47 Letter from J.D. McLean to E. E. TACHÉ, Assist.-Commissioner, of Crown Lands, Quebec, 28th April, 1902 Page 1/2 Doc: 34 070 / 2 77 Note: “Return ... To Law Clerk” Note on top by McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs: “For your approval Sir, your remarks on Memo of the 18 May 1901 Turned out. The Minister has ... dis... that $2000.00 Be ... in the Supplementary Estimates to open up woods of the Doncaster Reserve. JC. McLean.” The letter: “Representations have been made to the Department in the interest of the residents and Helpers of the lands surrendering the Indian Reserve in the Township of Doncaster County of Montcalm P.Q. setting forth that it would be very desirable to have the lands comprised within this Reserve thrown open for settlement. The Reserve contains the S.E. part of the said Township, and contains 18,000 Acres. It was apart under 14 & 15 Vic. Cap. 106, for the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Lake of Two Mountains. This Department has endeavoured, but without success, to obtain a Surrender of the land from the Indians, in order that it may be sold for their benefit, and thus meet the wishes of the Settlers above mentioned. The Indians, however, are decidedly opposed to make any surrender. They urge that although they have made no use of the land themselves, their descendents may do so, and at the price which would be realised for the land is small, there was no inducement to part with it. An Officer of the Department who was sent to Caughnawaga for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain the...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 294 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 48 Letter from J.D. McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs to E. E. TACHÉ, Assist.- Commissioner, of Crown Lands, Quebec, 28th April, 1902. Page 2/2 “... the desired Surrender after having examined the Doncaster Reserve drew the attention of the Indians to the fact that the land was extremely rocky and practically unfit for the purposes of an Indian reserve, or to be retained for the use of their descendents. He suggested the possibility of an exchange being made with the Province of Quebec, for another trust of land in a more remote District, which would be better in quality, and more suitable in situation, in the way of access to a large River or Lake, for the purpose of an Indian Reserve, and to retain for the use of their descendents. The attitude of the Indians was such that the Officer was induced to think that Indians might consent to surrender the land, in exchange for another tract. Considerable pressure has been brought to bear on the Department, to have these lands thrown open for settlement, and it certainly appears to be an injustice to the surrounding Settlers, to look up such a large tract in a fairly well settled District. I have therefore, to ask you to be good enough to take the matter into your earnest consideration, and inform mw whether your Govern-ment would feel disposed, provided the Indians will make the required Surrender, to set aside to another tract of land in exchange after the said Indian Reserve in the Township of Doncaster. Should your Government feel disposed to make the exchange, I shall feel obliged if you will inform me in what localisation or Districts the new tract may be selected ....(unreadable) Your obedient servant, J.D. MacLean. Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 295 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 49 Doc 34070 page 247125 extract 246,517 Translation “Caughnawaga, 30th April, 1930 The Secretary Dept. Of Indian Affairs, Ottawa Sirs, Resolution 2. I believe that this visit will be in the Interest of the tribe and of the government in order to be done with this re- serve, because a certain number of the Indians have gone to reside on this reserve if they find it suitable. X X I have, Sec., A. Brosseau Agent” Note beside: “Secy, Owing to the condition of this Band I do not recommend this application I think those surrender of the Band who which to visit the Doncaster Reserve should do So at their own personal expenses.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 296 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 50 Letter from chief councillor Jean Bte X Daillibout to Indian Agent A. Brosseau, from 28 April 1902. “Meeting of the council of the Caughnawaga reserve 28th April, 1902. X X Resolution 2. Mr. Janes Kane moved, sec- onded by Francois Phillipe, that in view of the fact that several members of the band have taken land on the Doncaster reserve, and in order that the land thus taken may be equitable and granted to these members, it is considered important that the whole council visit that reserve, and that the sum of $30.00 been granted by the Hon. The Supt. General of Indian Affairs to meet the expenses of this trip. Carried X X His Jean Bte X Daillibout mark Chief Councillor “ Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 297 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 51 (page 1/2) Memorandum from W.A. Orr, Officer in charge for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lands and Timber Branch to James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) from 3 May 1902. File 34 070/2- MEMORANDUM “To Mr. McKenna. Ottawa 3rd May, 1902- The Doncaster Indian Reserve, situate in the County of Montcalm, containing an area of 18500 acres, was set aside under 14-15 Vic, Cap 106, for the Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga and the Lake of Two Mountains. On the 2nd of October 1886, a Timber License covering Spruce and Cedar Timber of 10 inches at the butt and over, was issued to the Charlemagne & Lac Ouareau Lumber Company covering this Reserve, which License is still current and has not been transferred. On the 22nd January 1896, File 34 070, con- taining correspondences regarding squatters on the Doncaster Reserve, was sent to the Deputy Minister of Justice, who was asked to advise, under the circumstan- ces, whether the Department could succeed in a suit of ejectment against these trespassers or whether it could charge a rental for past use and occupation of the land, and also for future use and occupation, with- out a Surrender having been obtained from the Indians. No advice appears to have been given by the Justice Department in this matter, and the File of correspond- ence has not been returned, and I am unable, therefore, to give you the desired information as regards Squat- ters. The File is being looked for and, if found, I shall advise you later. I send herewith File 34 070/2, which contains the recent correspondence in this matter and would call...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 298 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 52 (page 2/2) Memorandum from W.A. Orr, Officer in charge for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lands and Timber Branch to James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, (Clifford Sifton) from 3 May 1902. “..call your attention to letter of the 28th Ultimo, ad- dressed the Deputy Minister of Lands, Mines & Fisheries Quebec, relative to the question of obtaining another tract of land in exchange for this Reserve. x W.A. Orr” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 299 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 53, letter from 28 April 1902 from the E. P. TACHÉ, Assist.-Commissioner, of Crown Lands, AKA Survey Branch department of Quebec to the Secretary of Indian Affairs, exposing that soon a feedback on behalf of his department will be made concerning the selection of a potential delocalization for the reserve. R. No 34070/02 Ty 34070-2 Ty Doc-page 247090 “SURVEY BRANCH QUEBEC To the Secretary Dept. of Indian Affairs Ottawa Sir, In answer to your letter of the 28th ulti- mo, I beg to inform you that this Department would feel dispo- sed, provided the Indians will make the required Surrender, to set aside another tract of land of same extent in exchange for the Indian Reserve in the township of Doncaster: but we are not as yet in a position to inform you in what localities or Dis- tricts the new tract may be selected, as we will be guided in this matter by the returns of an exploration now being made for this Department by Mr. Bureau. This gentleman is expected to re- turn shortly. I have the honour to be Sir, Your Obedient Servant x Deputy-Minister” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 300 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 54 (page 1/2) A letter from 23 April 1902 from Prime Minister Prefontaine, Mayor of the city of Montreal and federal Deputy in the County of Terrebonne and Minister of Mines and Fisheries and Francois Octave Dugas, Deputy of Montcalm, in the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization expressing the urge to build a road in order to deserve the people of St-Emile, St-Donat and Notre-Dame de la Merci, in the North-East side of the Reserve in order to reach conveniences. Doc-page 247-835 “HOUSE OF COMMONS rd Ottawa, April, 23 , 1902 S.90. Honourable C. Sifton, Minister of the Interior, Ottawa. My dear Minister, The undersigned, members of the House of Com- mons, respectfully for the county of Montcalm and Terrebonne, beg respectfully to present to your favorite consideration the following facts: There exist in the Township of Doncaster, in the parish of Ste-Lucie, in the county of Terrebonne, between the county of Montcalm and Terrebonne, an Indian reserve of an area of 18,000 acres. The said reserve has never been occupied and has been left abandoned since over 40 years, nobody to take char- ge of it. It was thus unoccupied for 20 years, when some white settlers in good faith took lots on this reserve and built esta- blishments for themselves. It stands to reason that no improvements whatever have been made on those lands, except on those lots occupied by the squat- ters, but no contribution of any kind were levied for municipal purpose, and no contribution for roads or other municipal work were exacted from the said land. This state of affairs has caused great detriment to the surrounding inhabitants, for instance three parishes: St-Emile, St-Donat and Notre-Dame de la Merci, all prosperous parishes, in the North-East side of the Reserve, and the inhabitants of said parishes, since over 30 years have been obliged to ride 10 miles or 15 miles, in order to reach the Railway Station at St-Agathe des Monts, to carry their products and come to the city of Montreal, there being no road through the said reserve. We must state that a few years ago the provincial govern-” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 301 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 55 (page 2/2) A letter from 23 April 1902 from Prime Minister Prefontaine, Mayor of the city of Montreal and federal Deputy in the County of Terrebonne and Minister of Mines and Fisheries and Francois Octave Dugas, Deputy of Montcalm, in the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization expressing the urge to build a road in order to deserve the people of St-Emile, St-Donat and Notre-Dame de la Merci in the North-East side of the Reserve in order to reach conveniences. Page-doc 247835 “... ment attempted to build a colonisation road through the said land, but was stopped by your department. The time has come, in our opinion, where the Government should come to the relief of these poor settlers and help the four municipalities interested in constructing proper roads through said Indian Reserve and highways leading to it. We respectfully submit that a sum of $5000 should be allotted ans spent under the control of your department to open said roads through said reserve and establish proper ways of communication for the people around there. If you will send one officer of your department to ascer- tain these facts and give the necessary instructions, you will greatly oblige the undersigned. We remain Truly Yours x R. Prefontaine x FO Dugas” Ends with a note below: “Cannot be “granted.”” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 302 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 56 Memorandum of 25 April 1902, from W.A. Orr, Officer in charge for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lands and Timber Branch to the Secretary, about a potential surrendering by the Indians. File 34 070-2 “Memorandum To the Secretary- Ottawa 25th April 1901- The Doncaster Indian Reserve, which is situated in the Township of Doncaster, in the County of Mont- calm, containing an area of 18500 acres, was set aside under 14-15 Vic, Cap 106, for the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and the Lake of Two Mountains Indians. No disposition has been made of the Reserve as the Indians have declined to surrender the same to be sold for their benefit. There is a Timber License current held by the Charlemagne and the Lac Ouareau Lumber Company, covering the Spruce and Cedar Timber on the Reserve. The Department is in communication with the local authorities in Quebec for an exchange of land upon obtaining the consent of the Indians to a re- linquishment of the present Reserve, in consideration of the setting apart of another. x W.A. Orr.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 303 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 56 Memorandum of 25 April 1902, from W.A. Orr, Officer in charge for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lands and Timber Branch to the Secretary, about a potential surrendering by the Indians. A note was written on the left side exposing: “Minister – You will see from them that there Is a proposition in part to exchange the Reserve. No section of the Reserve has been surrendered or sold. The request is simply for the benefit of the Municipalities. J.D” McLean.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 304 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 57 Letter of 30 May 1902 from Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs answering the last letter of Francois Octave Dugas, Deputy of Montcalm and Minister Prefontaine from 23 April 1902, in the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization. “Ottawa, 10th May, 1902. Dear Mr Dugas:- Referring to the communication which you and Mr Prefontaine addressed to me on the 23 Ultimo asking for assistance in the construction of a road through the Doncaster Reserve, I beg to inform you that while I appre- ciate the needs of the Settlers as stated by you, I do not think it advisable for us to undertake the construction of the road at this stage. We have now in negotiation with the Indians the question of surrendering the Reserve and the opening of a road would complicate the question. More- over I could not well ask an appropriation from Parliament for constructing a road through the Reserve which you may succeed in having open to settlement. Yours faithfullt, SIG Clifford Sifton.” (SIG: Superintendent General Indian) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 305 Trade Doncaster for Residential Schools: An attempt was made by the government in order to manage the transfer of funds entitled to Doncaster towards the building and management of the Residential School 1902 On 5 May 1902 a letter-Memorandum from Duncan C. Scott, the Accountant of Indian Affairs to his superior, McKenna, James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, exposed the management of funds for the Methodist Church of England and the Mount Elgin residential schools for Kahnawake and Kanesatake Then in an correspondence from 7 May 1902 by Caughnawaga Chief John Dailleboust and Indian Agent Brosseau are exposing the position of Caughnawaga about Doncaster after a special meeting in presence of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general. Which wrote as: “At a special meeting of the Council of the Caughnawaga Band held at Caughnawaga in the 7th May 1902 in the presence of Mr. A. I. McKenna of the Department of Indian Affairs and Mr. A. Brosseau Indian Agent it was moved by Councillor J.S. Simpson and seconded by councillor J.B. Delorimier that after hearing Mr McKenna’s statement in regard to the Doncaster Reserve and the report of the delegates of the Council who visited the Reserve be it resolved that the Caughnawaga Band shall not during the present year exercise as a band or underdealt their rights to the said reserve in order to give time for the conversation and development of of a plan to provide a boarding school on the understanding that the Caughnawaga Band relinquish their rights to the reserve with a view to the same being given by them as a contribution to the school, of being understood by that Frank Thires who is at present at Doncaster may remain there so long as he does not, pending a settlement of the reserve question, interfere with the Squatters or any of them and that in the event of his doing so or threatening to do so he shall be recalled by the Council. Carried unanimously Certified his John x Dailleboust mark Chief Councillor A. Brosseau Indian Agent” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 306 In Spring, on 12 May 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent’s Secretary, Andrew McKenna, exposes that the Caughnawaga Band is taking a year off the schedules of the Doncaster’s occupation in order to focus on the transfers organised of their children to certain Residential School, as exposed in his previous report which wrote as: “Ottawa, 12 May 1902. Memorandum for the Minister:- Re Doncaster Reserve. This Reserve comprises the S. E. ¼ of the Township of Doncaster in the County of Montcalm, P.Q., and contains 18,500 acres. It was set aside fifty years ago by Statute for the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Oka. It is in the midst of a hilly country where rocks abound and the light sandy loan is cultivable only with great labor. But settlement has advanced and extended on to the Reserve. I was unable to procure any detailed information in the Department in regard to the squatters or their holdings for the reason that the file containing the correspondence was sent to the Justice Department for advice in January 1896. No advice was tendered, and it appears that the papers have been lost. But I append a statement (A) giving the information which I obtained from the squatters when I met them recently at Ste Lucie. You will observe from it that 2,800 acres have been squatted on; that the improvements on the holdings range all the way from $50.00 to $4,000.00 and total some $17,800.00; that most of them have been held for from twenty five to forty years; and that many have passed from original squatters. The reserve is covered by a licence to cut spruce and cedar held by the Charlemagne and Lac Ouareau Lumber Company. Apart from what the Company does to guard its interest, nothing has been done to protect the other timber on the Reserve, and apparently it has been made pretty free with. The squatters admitted that they were all aware when they took up their holdings or purchased from the squatters that the land was included in an Indian Reserve, but they claimed that they had been told that they would not be interfered with. I found a Caughnawaga Indian named Thires with his adopted son and family in possession of a house on the Reserve and preparing for farming operations. The squatter who owned this house was absent, and this Indian, who had gone to the Reserve with others to make sugar, took possession of the house with a view to bringing to an issue the right of the Indians as against the squatters. I knew the old man and after parleying with him got his promise not to interfere with the squatters while we were endeavoring to make a settlement and to vacate the house as soon as its owner required it. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 307 Four of the Council of the Caughnawaga band arrived while I was on the spot, and I discussed the situation with them. I assured them that Government had no intention of dispossessing the of their land, but pointed out that as these squatters had been on the Reserve for years and had made improvements, we would require time to make an adjustment with them if the Indians persisted in refusing to surrender the Reserve, and that in the meantime there should be no thought of their taking the law into their own hands. On their side they urged that the Department had failed to protect the Reserve, that the squatters had had the benefit of the timber on the Reserve outside of that covered by license, and had been exempt from taxes, all of which should be taken into consideration in effecting a settlement. They agreed however not to interfere with the squatters pending a consideration of a settlement if the question was promptly taken up and I would meet the Council at Caughnawaga to that end. I was thus enabled to dispel the fears of the settlers, whom the presence of the Indians had greatly disturbed, and to rejoice them with the assurance that they might go on with the season’s farm work which had been interrupted. I have already reported adverse to the suggestion that the authority of Parliament should be sought to extinguish the Indian title to this Reserve. Such a course would immeasurably increase the trouble we already experience in dealing with the affairs of the Iroquois Indians, and would create a precedent that would make it all the more difficult to resist the pressure that is beginning to come from different quarters, and will increase year by year, to have Reserves thrown open when settlement presses upon them. The situation is a difficult one. Having tacitly acquiesced in the trespass the Department is not now in a good position to enforce the law against the squatters. They have no legal rights, but departmental inaction has created certain rights which it would be inequitable and impolitic to disregard. If we cannot succeed in securing a surrender of the Reserve, we should not remove the squatters without compensation. But the funds of the Caughnawaga Band are not sufficient to bear such a charge, and even if they were, the Indians would claim that our failure as their guardians to protect the Reserve puts the burden of compensation on our shoulders. It is clear that the Indians will not surrender the Reserve for the revenue to be derived from its sale. Provincial Government land was sold in the vicinity for thirty cents an acre. Nor will the Indians exchange it for other land in Quebec, for the reason that the available land adapted for agriculture would be far distant. If an exchange were considered at all, it would be for land in the North West Territories. It came out in the discussion with the Indians that they are very desirous of having an Industrial School, and that the Band might be willing to relinquish its claim to the Reserve and give it as a Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 308 contribution towards the school if the Government would agree to provide one. I learned that a Resolution has been passed by the Band asking for a school and that the question has been mooted for some time. There is no Industrial or Boarding School in the Lower Provinces. Some 150 children from Caughnawaga are at present in Boarding Schools in the United States. Although an Industrial School is mentioned, after discussion I found that what they really desired was a Boarding School in which special provision would be made for teaching the pupils farm work. After conferring with you, I met the Council of the Caughnawaga Band, and discussed the Reserve matter. The discussion confirmed the views I have already expressed. The Indians are determined to insist upon their right to the Reserve and to keep the question in the front. They had evidently concluded to send a number of their people to Doncaster to take up land and thus demonstrate that they were in a position to make use of the Reserve and compel us to deal with the trespassers. They were in no mind to desist from their course. Signs of general disaffection were apparent. The Agent considered useless to go on with the discussion. I succeeded in getting a majority of the Council with me, but so strong is the feeling in the Band that the members of the Council would not commit themselves formally until the general meeting called for the afternoon was assembled and action could be taken in the presence of all. After the adjournment I met the Council with the members of the Band and resumed the discussion. A definite statement of the Government’s policy was demanded from me and old questions were raked up. I replied that I was in a position to state frankly to them that you were impressed by the school proposal, that it was a matter, however, that had to be submitted to the Cabinet, and that no one could commit the Administration in advance. After giving an assurance that the proposal would not be shelved but would be duly and seriously considered, and pledging my word to give my personal attention to assisting in having the matter dealt with, the Council passed the Resolution attached hereto (B) agreeing that the Caughnawaga Band shall not exercise their right to the Doncaster Reserve during the present year in order to give time for the consideration and development of a plan to provide a boarding school on the understanding that the Caughnawaga Band relinquish their right to the Reserve with a view to the same being given as a contribution to the School. I have conferred with Mr. Scott, the Accountant, in regard to the financial side of the school question, and he suggested (see his memo attached “C”) that $15,000.00 might be taken from the capital of the Province of Quebec Fund for building. This Fund began in 1860 with what is described as “a balance” of $15,479,53, and was added to by an annual Legislative appropriation. In 1870 the appropriation was capitalized and [$30,000.00 ou $80,000.00] put to the credit of the Fund which then stood, Capital $112,545.72, Interest, $11,442.00. And notwithstanding the Capitalization the appropriation was continued. The Fund was charged with Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 309 salaries of missionaries and teachers in Lower Canada. But there was an Indian School Fund and it was considered that teacher’s salaries should be charged of it and accordingly they were transferred by order in Council from the former to the latter fund $58.080.000 which at 5% yielded sufficient to meet the transferred charge of teachers salaries. The School Fund was wiped out in the readjustment of Indian Funds made by Order in Council some years ago, and the $58,080.00 was transferred back to the Province of Quebec Fund. Its actual Capital now is $79,080.00. Tue interest is only charged with the salaries of three Missionaries and each year the balance goes to Capital with a view to bringing it to the old figure of $107,000.00 and put it in a position to bear charges for relief that are now met out of Consolidated Revenue. It will be seen that the practice warrants this and other such funds being dealt with by Order in Council for proper Indian purposes without any special statutory authority. It is a question of policy whether a part of the Capital of this particular fund should be used for an Indian Boarding School in Quebec. Fifty eight thousand dollars of it having once been transferred for educational purposes and only returned because of a general readjustment shows that education was regarded as a proper object of expenditure. Taking the suggested amount from capital will delay the recouping of the fund, but there is a question as to whether it is not wiser 27 to use Capital for education than to lay it up to produce in future revenue for relief. We should be looking for the day when permanent provision for relief to Indians would not be required. If the building were provided out of Indian funds a yearly Parliamentary appropriation for maintenance would be necessary. We now make the following provision for boarding schools in Ontario: 60 pupils at $60.00 per capita at the Shinwauk Home (Church of England) - $3600.00 100 pupils at $60.00 at the Mount Elgin Institute (Methodist) - $6000.00 91 pupils at the Mohawk Institute (Church of England) at $60.00 = $5400.00 120 pupils at the Wikwemikong School (Roman Catholic) at $60.00 = $7200.00 We would have to provide for not less than 100 pupils at $60.00 at the proposed school. I am convinced that practical education opens the only road to the permanent advancement of the Indians, and that boarding schools, in which certain manual training and farming and domestic work are important features, are the best means of educating Indian children on right lines. I consider that it is contrary to good policy to have a large number of Iroquois Indians in schools in the United States. They come back with the idea that better provision is made for their race on that side of the line than on this, and become disturbing elements. It is in the public interest that the Iroquois should be made contented and advanced. The fact that they desire a school and are Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 310 ready to contribute to it is a good sign, and I feel that the necessary expenditure would be justified by results. The Doncaster Reserve is held jointly by the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Oka. The population of Caughnawaga id about 2,000, and of Oka some 450. Not all of the 450 claim to be Iroquois however; and only the Iroquois have a right to Doncaster. Opinion at Caughnawaga affects opinion at Oka, and as a question of surrender is decided by a majority vote of the joint owners, Caughnawaga controls the situation. We need not, therefore, fear that a scheme of settlement will be blocked at Oka. X signed J.A. McKenna.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 311 Then, on 20 August 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton writes to his Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Only male members aged 21 and older were allowed to vote in Band Councils in Canada until 1951. The page 98-99-100 of the microfilmed documents are containing the original and stamped letter : “KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of the ( or sometimes called the Iroquois of Sault Saint Louis) Iroquois of Caughnawaga, Band of Indians resident on our Reserve at Caughnawaga in the County of Laprairie in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, DO hereby release, remise, surrender, quit and yield up unto OUR SOVEREIGN LORD THE KING, his Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the township of Doncaster in the County of Montcalm and Province of Quebec containing by admeasurement eighteen thousand five hundred acres be the same more or less and being composed of the Doncaster Indian Reserve in the Township and County aforesaid which said reserve is delineated in a plan of record in the Department of Indian Affairs, dated 20th February, 1858 signed by Andrew Russel Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto His said Majesty the King, his heirs and Successors forever, in trust to dispose of, sell, alienate or lease the same in such manner and upon such term as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conductive to the purposes hereinafter mentioned and upon the further condition that all moneys received from the disposition, sale, alienation or lease thereof shall after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management be applied by the said Government in defraying or by way of contribution to the cost of a boarding school for indian children hereafter to be erected under direction of the said Government and the costs of construction, maintenance and repairs of the said school and the conduct thereof and the maintenance and education of the children attending the same Provideo always that such school shall be situate in the Province of Quebec within convenient distance of Caughnawaga and Oka both in the said Province and shall have accommodation for at least two hundred children and provided also that all applicants for admission to the said school who are children of Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga or of the Lake of Two Mountains shall have a prior right over all other children to admission to and maintenance and education at the said school so long as any vacancy thereat continues. And we the said Chief and principal men of the said Iroquois of Caughnawaga Band of Indians do on behalf of our own people and for ourselves hereby ratify and confirm, whatever the said Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 312 Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done in connection with the disposition, sale, alienation or lease of the lands hereby surrendered or any part thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this (blank) day of (blank)in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Signed, sealed and delivered ) in presence of)” Though, later, on 25 October 1902, a document-letter states that : “At a meeting of the Iroquois tribe residing in the Caughnawaga Indian Reserve, Canada, The question of surrendering their share in the Doncaster Reserve as their contribution to the erection of a boarding school for 200 of their children at or near the said Reserve was voted upon held at Council room Caughnawaga on 25th Oct., 1902, the said school to be erected and maintained on the ...(unreadable)” On 25 October 1902, below the previous statement, the names of only 5, those “in favor of endeavor” and 74 others, “those against” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 313 Two important historical reports which exposed the history until the management of the departure of the squatters In a report from 13 March 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Samuel Stewart depicted a complete review of the historical situation of Doncaster until 1903, which mentioned: “By Statute 14 & 15 Vic., Cha. 106, lands amounting in all to 230,000 acres were set apart for Indian Tribes in Lower Canada. Of this amount a reserve containing 18,500 acre was granted to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Two Mountains in the Township of Wexford (now Doncaster), County of Montcalm, and was confirmed to them by Order in Council of 9th August, 1853. This reserve has never been occupied by the Indians Reports regarding the lands have been made by Mr. Fillion, Bushranger for the Quebec Crown Lands Department, Mr. Bray, Chief Surveyor, Mr. McKenna, Assistant Indian Commissioner, Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Reserves, all of whom visited the reserve and agree in saying that it as well as the surrounding Townships consist of steep, rocky hills, with practically no plains between them. The soil, it is further stated, is without exception a sandy loam of medium quality, and no one but those who are willing to work very hard and live very frugally can possibly make a living in this rough, sandy district. The value of the land is given as from 30 to 33 cents per acre. The Reserve when set apart contained a considerable quantity of good merchantable timber. In 1869 a license to cut the same was granted to Messrs. Cushing Bros., of Repentigny who paid a bonus of $350.00 in addition to ground rent and timber dues for the privilege, but they allowed the license to lapse in 1872 owing to the difficulty of getting the logs down the streams. A license to cut the spruce and cedar timber was granted to the Charlemagne and Lac Onareau Lumber Co. In 1886 on payment of Two hundred dollars bonus in addition to ground rent and timber dues. This license is still in force. The first intimation received by the Department regarding the squatters was from the Crown Lands Departments, Quebec, in November 1881, and that Department offered to send a competent Bushranger to investigate and report if desired. In reply the Department asked that this be done, and that all squatters on the reserve be notified to leave at once. In compliance with this request, Mr. A. B. Fillion was sent to the reserve and his report of 15th December, 1881, states the he found fifteen families occupying lands belonging to the Indians, and that he had served them with notice to leave. Mr. Fillion valued the improvements owned by the settlers at $1635.00. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 314 The notice did not have the desired effect, as several of those, who are now on the reserve, are evidently, judging by the names, of the same families, who were there in 1881, while others claim to have purchased from the persons mentioned by Mr. Filion. The settlers were also notified to leave by Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Agencies, in August, 1893. Mr. McKenna visited the reserve in May, 1902, and re- ported sixteen persons as holding lands on the reserve of from 100 to 450 acres in extent. The values of the improvements as given to Mr. McKenna by the settlers themselves totalled $17,800.00. As early as September, 1873, the Crown Lands Department, Quebec, proposed that, as the Doncaster Reserve was not occupied by Indians, or likely to be so, and as it was important, in view of the settlement in this Township, that the block of land should be offered for sale to actual settlers, (blank space ) it be transferred to the Government of the Province of Quebec in exchange for an equal area of land in another locality, better suited to the wants of the indians, or, in case such an exchange could not be made, that the land in question be offered for sale by the Department. In accordance with the proposition, Mr. De Boucherville, the Lands Sales Clerk, was sent to Caughnawaga, to endeavour to obtain a surrender from the Indians but could not get their consent and the matter was allowed to drop for the time being. In April last the Crown Lands Department again offered, in the event of the Indians surrendering the reserve, to set aside another tract of land of the same extent in exchange for the same. Very strong representations have from time to time been made to this Department by the Crown Lands Departments, by the settlers themselves, by the adjoining Municipality and by Members of Parliament, that the reserve should be opened for sale. The difficulty in the way of this action has been, however, that this Department, after repeated attempts, as failed to obtain a surrender of the reserve from the Indians. The efforts of this direction may be enumerated:- In August, 1874 by Mr. De Boucherville, Lands Sales Clerk, May 1893, “ Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Agencies, May 1894, “ Mr. McKenna, Secretary to Deputy Minister, May 1901, “ Mr. Bray, Chief Surveyor, May 1902, “ Mr. McKenna, Assistant Indian Commissioner, Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 315 It may be mentioned that the settlers have all along admitted they were aware, when they took up holding, that the lands were included in an Indian Reserve, but further state that they were given to understand, they would not be interfered with. S. Stewart, Assistant Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 316 It was followed by another important temporal updates of the legal procedures, exposing a Memorandum report, from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart which went as: “Ottawa, 3rd April, 1903. Memorandum:- The Superintendent General. The Doncaster Reserve, situated in the County of Montcalm, containing 18,000 acres, was set apart by Statute 14 and 15 Voc., Ch. 106, for the benefit of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Two Mountains. The Reserve has never been occupied by the Indians, and in October, 1873, and again in May, 1902, the Crown Lands Department, Quebec, proposed, in view of the progress of settlement, that the Reserve be transferred to the Province in exchange for an equal tract of land in another locality, or that, in case such an exchange could not be made, the land in ques-tion be offered for sale by the Department. The matter was referred to the Indians, and they were asked to surrender the Reserve in order that it might be sold for their benefit. It was pointed out to them that the advance of settlement in that part of the country where the reserve is situated and its distance from the residence of any officer of the Department made it difficult to protect the land from being squatted upon or the timber pillaged. The Indians, however, refused t surrender the Reserve: and, although the matter has been submitted to them on five different occasions, it has always been with the same result. The Agent who visited the Reserve in 1873 found a number of squatters on the Reserve, and since that date others have also taken up land and built houses thereon. These persons have several times been notified to leave, but action for their ejectment has not been taken owing to representation that have been made to the Department by the Crown Lands Department, by the authorities of the ad-joining municipality, by Members of Parliament and by the settlers themselves. It was anticipated by the Department, as well as by the settlers and their friends, that the Indians would eventually consent to surrender the Reserve, as the land was reported to be of poor quality and difficult of cultivation. There was little reason, therefore, for thinking that the Indians would desire to settle down on it with the expectation of making a living by farming. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 317 The Indians have now, however, signified their intention of at once occupying the Reserve and have demanded that the trespassers be removed without delay, but before this action can be taken the claim of the squatters for compensation for their improvements requires to be dealt with. These squatters state that they took up their holding in good faith, and with the conviction that the Reserve would be opened for sale. The fact that the Department has to a certain extant acquiesced in the trespass is also given as a reason why they should be compensated for their improvements if they are compelled to remove from the Reserve. It is felt that there is considerable force in the argument urged on behalf of the squatters, and that their continued occupation, most of them for periods of from twenty-five to forty years, together with the Department’s inaction, gives them a claim which cannot well be overlook- ed. The lands trespassed upon amount to 2,800 acres, and the improvements on the holdings given by the squatters themselves total some $17,800.00. In dealing with this matter it should, however, be borne in mind that the squatters have had the free use of the land all these years and that they, living on an Indian Reserve, have not been required to pay taxes. In addition, they have had the benefit, of which it is stated they have taken full advantage, of the timber on the Reserve outside of the spruce and cedar, which alone is covered by license. In the event of its being decided to pay for the improvements, it will be necessary to have the money provided by a vote of Parliament. The Oka Indians have no funds and the funds of the Caughnawaga Band are not sufficient to bear the charge of paying the amount required. The claims of the Indians cannot, it is thought, be overlooked that the failure of the Department to protect the Reserve from intrusion puts the burden of compensation on its shoulders. There is no doubt but that the longer the settlement of this matter is delayed the more difficult will it be to come to a satisfactory arrangement. Some of the Caughnawaga Indians have already been restrained with difficulty from taking possession of house owned by the squatters; and the Oka Indians, who feel that they have been unjustly deprived of the lands at the Lake of Two Mountains, will make the most of any delay in putting them in possession of the Reserve at Doncaster. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 318 Roads Through The Reserve:- The Department of Agriculture and Colonisation, Quebec, and the Members of Parliament for the Counties of Montcalm and Terrebonne have pointed out that no roads have been opened up through the Doncaster Reserve. In consequence, they state, the settlers in the surrounding town- Ships are seriously inconvenienced, as they are obliged to ride from 10 to 15 miles in order to reach a railway station with the products of their farms. Messrs. Prefontaine and Dugas have asked that the Department come to the relief of the settlers and help the municipalities interested in constructing proper roads through the Reserve and highways leading to it. They ask that a sum of $5,000.00 be allocated and spent under the control of the Department to open said roads. In connection with these applications attentionis called to Section 35 of the Indian Act as amended by Section 5 of 50-51 Vic., Ch. 23, which provides that “No por- “ tion of any reserve shall be taken for the purposes of “ any railway, road or public work without the consent of “ the Governor in Council, and if any railway, road or pub- “ lic work passes through or causes injury to any reserve “ belonging to or in possession of any band of Indians, or “ if any act occasioning damage to any reserve is done un- “ der the authority of an Act of Parliament, or of the Leg- “ islature of any Province, compensation shall be made to “ them therefor in the same manner as is provided with res- “ pect to the lands or rights of other persons.” Under Section 38 as repealed y Section 3 of 61 Vic., Chp. 24m no reserve or portion of a reserve shall be sold, alienated or leased until the same has been released or surrendered to the Crown. It is doubtful whether the Indians would consent at present to surrender any portion of the Reserve. If the Indians were residing on the Reserve they could be compelled under Section 33 as repealed by Section 1, Ch. 33, Vic. 61, and Section 34 to make reads and keep them in order through the Reserve. Under the circumstances the only way in which the wishes of the Department of Colonisation and of the Members for the Counties of Montcalm and Terrebonne can be met would be apparently be by this Department’s obtaining a grant from Parliament for the purpose and having the roads made for the improvement of the Reserve and for the benefit of the Indians. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 319 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 58 letter-Memorandum of 5 May 1902 from Duncan C. Scott, the Accountant of Indian Affairs to his superior, McKenna, James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, for the management of funds for the Methodist Church of England and the Mount Elgin residential schools for Kahnawake and Kanesatake Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 320 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 59 (page 1/3) In an correspondence from 7 May 1902 by Caughnawaga Chief John Dailleboust and Indian Agent Brosseau are exposing the position of Caughnawaga about Doncaster after a special meeting in presence of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general. “B At a special meeting of the Council of the Caughnawaga Band held at Caughnawaga in the 7th May 1902 in the presence of Mr. A. I. McKenna of the Department of Indian Affairs and Mr. A. Brosseau Indian Agent it was moved by Councillor J.S. Simpson and seconded by councillor J.B. Delorimier that after hearing Mr McKenna’s statement in regard to 2 the Doncaster Reserve and the report of the delegates of the Council who visited the Reserve be it resolved that the Caughnawaga Band shall not during the present year exercise as a band or underdealt their rights to the said reserve in order to give time for the conversation and development of...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 321 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 60 (page 2/3) In an correspondence from 7 May 1902 by Caughnawaga Chief John Dailleboust and Indian Agent Brosseau are exposing the position of Caughnawaga about Doncaster after a special meeting in presence of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general. “3 ..of a plan to provide a boarding school on the understanding that the Caughnawaga Band relinquish their rights to the reserve with a view to the same being given by them as a contribution to the school, 4 of being understood by that Frank Thires who is at present at Doncaster may remain there so long as he does not, pending a settlement of the reserve question, interfere with the Squatters or any of them and that in the event of his doing so or threatening to do so he shall be recalled by the Council. Carried unanimously ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 322 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 61 (page 3/3In an correspondence from 7 May 1902 by Caughnawaga Chief John Dailleboust and Indian Agent Brosseau are exposing the position of Caughnawaga about Doncaster after a special meeting in presence of James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general “5 Unanimously Certified his John x Dailleboust mark Chief Councillor A. Brosseau Indian Agent” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 323 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 62-64 Statement “A” giving names of squatters on the Doncaster reserve, the extent of their holdings, and an estimate of improvement. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 324 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 62-64 Statement “A” giving names of squatters on the Doncaster reserve, the extent of their holdings, and an estimate of improvement. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 325 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 65 (page 1/9) In Spring, on 12 May 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent’s Secretary, Andrew McKenna, exposes that the Caughnawaga Band is taking a year off the schedules of the Doncaster’s occupation in order to focus on the transfers organised of their children to certain Residential School, as exposed in his previous report through the previous pages 232-239 exposing passed the Resolution attached hereto (B) agreeing that the Caughnawaga Band shall not exercise their right to the Doncaster Reserve during the present year in order to give time for the consideration and development of a plan to provide a boarding school. [...]” “Ottawa, 12 May 1902. Memorandum for the Minister:- Re Doncaster Reserve. This Reserve comprises the S. E. ¼ of the Town- ship of Doncaster in the County of Montcalm, P.Q., and contains 18,500 acres. It was set aside fifty years ago by Statute for the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Oka. It is in the midst of a hilly country where rocks abound and the light sandy loan is cultivable only with great labor. But settlement has advanced and extended on to the Reserve. I was unable to procure any detailed information in the Department in regard to the squatters or their holdings for the reason that the file containing the corres- pondence was sent to the Justice Department for advice in January 1896. No advice was tendered, and it appears that the papers have been lost. But I append a statement (A) giving the information which I obtained from the squatters when I met them recently at Ste Lucie. You will observe from it that 2,800 acres have been squatted on; that the improvements on the holdings range all the way from $50.00 to $4,000.00 and total some $17,800.00; that most of them have been held for from twenty five to forty years; and that many have passed from original squatters. The reserve is covered by a licence to cut spruce and cedar held by the Charlemagne and Lac Ouareau Lumber Company. Apart from what the Company does to guard...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 326 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 66 (page 2/9) [2] “...its interest, nothing has been done to protect the other timber on the Reserve, and apparently it has been made pretty free with. The squatters admitted that they were all aware when they took up their holdings or purchased from the squatters that the land was included in an Indian Reserve, but they claimed that they had been told that they would not be inter- fered with. I found a Caughnawaga Indian named Thires with his adopted son and family in possession of a house on the Reserve and preparing for farming operations. The squatter who owned this house was absent, and this Indian, who had gone to the Reserve with others to make sugar, took posses- sion of the house with a view to bringing to an issue the right of the Indians as against the squatters. I knew the old man and after parleying with him got his promise not to interfere with the squatters while we were endeavoring to make a settlement and to vacate the house as soon as its owner required it. Four of the Council of the Caughnawaga band arrived while I was on the spot, and I discussed the situa- tion with them. I assured them that Government had no intention of dispossessing the of their land, but pointed out that as these squatters had been on the Reserve for years and had made improvements, we would require time to make an adjustment with them if the Indians persisted in refusing to surrender the Reserve, and that in the meantime there should be no thought of their taking the law into their own hands. On their side they urged that the ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 327 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 67 (page 3/9) [3] “... Department had failed to protect the Reserve, that the squatters had had the benefit of the timber on the Reserve outside of that covered by license, and had been exempt from taxes, all of which should be taken into consideration in effecting a settlement. They agreed however not to interfere with the squatters pending a consideration of a settlement if the question was promptly taken up and I would meet the Council at Caughnawaga to that end. I was thus enabled to dispel the fears of the settlers, whom the presence of the Indians had greatly disturbed, and to rejoice them with the assurance that they might go on with the season’s farm work which had been interrupted. I have already reported adverse to the suggestion that the authority of Parliament should be sought to extinguish the Indian title to this Reserve. Such a course would immeasurably increase the trouble we already experi- ence in dealing with the affairs of the Iroquois Indians, and would create a precedent that would make it all the more difficult to resist the pressure that is beginning to come from different quarters, and will increase year by year, to have Reserves thrown open when settlement presses upon them. The situation is a difficult one. Having tacitly acquiesced in the trespass the Department is not now in a good position to enforce the law against the squatters. They have no legal rights, but departmental inaction has created certain rights which it would be inequitable and impolitic to disregard. If we cannot succeed in securing a surrender...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 328 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 68 (page 4/9) [4] “... of the Reserve, we should not remove the squatters without compensation. But the funds of the Caughnawaga Band are not sufficient to bear such a charge, and even if they were, the Indians would claim that our failure as their guardians to protect the Reserve puts the burden of compensation on our shoulders. It is clear that the Indians will not surrender the Reserve for the revenue to be derived from its sale. Provincial Government land was sold in the vicinity for thirty cents an acre. Nor will the Indians exchange it for other land in Quebec, for the reason that the available land adapted for agriculture would be far distant. If an exchange were considered at all, it would be for land in the North West Territories. It came out in the discussion with the Indians that they are very desirous of having an Industrial School, and that the Band might be willing to relinquish its claim to the Reserve and give it as a contribution towards the school if the Government would agree to provide one. I learned that a Resolution has been passed by the Band asking for a school and that the question has been mooted for some time. There is no Industrial or Boarding School in the Lower Provinces. Some 150 children from Caughnawaga are at pre- sent in Boarding Schools in the United States. Although an Industrial School is mentioned, after discussion I found that what they really desired was a Boarding School in which special provision would be made for teaching the pupils farm work.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 329 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 69 (page 5/9) [5] “After conferring with you, I met the Council of the Caughnawaga Band, and discussed the Reserve matter. The discussion confirmed the views I have already expressed. The Indians are determined to insist upon their right to the Reserve and to keep the question in the front. They had evidently concluded to send a number of their people to Doncaster to take up land and thus demonstrate that they were in a position to make use of the Reserve and compel us to deal with the trespassers. They were in no mind to desist from their course. Signs of general disaffection were apparent. The Agent considered useless to go on with the discussion. I succeeded in getting a majority of the Council with me, but so strong is the feeling in the Band that the members of the Council would not commit themselves formally until the general meeting called for the afternoon was assembled and action could be taken in the presence of all. After the adjournment I met the Council with the members of the Band and resumed the dis- cussion. A definite statement of the Government’s policy was demanded from me and old questions were raked up. I replied that I was in a position to state frankly to them that you were impressed by the school proposal, that it was a matter, however, that had to be submitted to the Cabinet, and that no one could commit the Administration in advance. After giving an assurance that the proposal would not be shelved but would be duly and seriously con- sidered, and pledging my word to give my personal attention to assisting in having the matter dealt with, the Council...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 330 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 70 (page 6/9) [6] “ ... passed the Resolution attached hereto (B) agreeing that the Caughnawaga Band shall not exercise their right to the Doncaster Reserve during the present year in order to give time for the consideration and development of a plan to provide a boarding school on the understanding that the Caughnawaga Band relinquish their right to the Reserve with a view to the same being given as a contribution to the School. I have conferred with Mr. Scott, the Accountant, in regard to the financial side of the school question, and he suggested (see his memo attached “C”) that $15,000.00 might be taken from the capital of the Province of Quebec Fund for building. This Fund began in 1860 with what is described as “a balance” of $15,479,53, and was added to by an annual Legislative appropriation. In 1870 the appropriation was capitalized and [$30,000.00 ou $80,000.00] put to the credit of the Fund which then stood, Capital $112,545.72, Interest, $11,442.00. And notwithstanding the Capitaliza- tion the appropriation was continued. The Fund was charged with salaries of missionaries and teachers in Lower Canada. But there was an Indian School Fund and it was considered that teacher’s salaries should be charged of it and accordingly they were transferred by order in Council from the former to the latter fund $58.080.000 which at 5% yielded sufficient to meet the transferred charge of teachers salaries. The School Fund was wiped out in the readjustment of Indian Funds made by Order in Council some years ago, and the $58,080.00 was transferred back to the Province of Quebec Fund. Its actual Capital now is $79,080.00. Tue interest is only charged with the salaries...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 331 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 71 (page 7/9) [7] “ ... of three Missionaries and each year the balance goes to Capital with a view to bringing it to the old figure of $107,000.00 and put it in a position to bear charges for relief that are now met out of Consolidated Revenue. It will be seen that the practice warrants this and other such funds being dealt with by Order in Council for proper Indian purposes without any special statutory authority. It is a question of policy whether a part of the Capital of this particular fund should be used for an Indian Boarding School in Quebec. Fifty eight thousand dollars of it having once been transferred for educational purposes and only returned because of a general readjustment shows that education was regarded as a proper object of expenditure. Taking the suggested amount from capital will delay the recouping of the fund, but there is a question as to whether it is not wiser 27 to use Capital for education than to lay it up to produce in future revenue for relief. We should be looking for the day when permanent provision for relief to Indians would not be required. If the building were provided out of Indian funds a yearly Parliamentary appropriation for maintenance would be necessary. We now make the following provision for boarding schools in Ontario: 60 pupils at $60.00 per capita at the Shinwauk Home (Church of England) - $3600.00 100 pupils at $60.00 at the Mount Elgin Institute (Methodist) - $6000.00 ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 332 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 72 (page 8/9) [8] “ ... 91 pupils at the Mohawk Institute (Church of England) at $60.00 = $5400.00 120 pupils at the Wikwemikong School (Roman Catholic) at $60.00 = $7200.00 We would have to provide for not less than 100 pupils at $60.00 at the proposed school. I am convinced that practical education opens the only road to the permanent advancement of the Indians, and that boarding schools, in which certain manual training and farming and domestic work are important features, are the best means of educating Indian children on right lines. I consider that it is contrary to good policy to have a large number of Iroquois Indians in schools in the United States. They come back with the idea that better provision is made for their race on that side of the line than on this, and become disturbing elements. It is in the public interest that the Iroquois should be made contented and advanced. The fact that they desire a school and are ready to contribute to it is a good sign, and I feel that the necessary expenditure would be justified by results. The Doncaster Reserve is held jointly by the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Oka. The population of Caughnawaga id about 2,000, and of Oka some 450. Not all of the 450 claim to be Iroquois however; and only the Iroquois have a right to Doncaster. Opinion at Caughnawaga affects opinion at Oka, and as a question of surrender is decided by a majority vote of the joint owners, Caughnawaga con- ...” Pages 72 (page 9/9) [9] “ ...trols the situation. We need not, therefore, fear that a scheme of settlement will be blocked at Oka. J.A. McKenna.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 333 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 74 (page 1/2) On 8 October 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton exposes to his Secretary, James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, that the Caughnawaga Band is taking a year off the schedules of the Doncaster’s occupation in order to focus on the transfers organised of their children to certain Residential School, as exposed in his previous report through the previous pages 232-239 exposing passed the Resolution attached hereto (B) agreeing that the Caughnawaga Band shall not exercise their right to the Doncaster Reserve during the present year in order to give time for the consideration and development of a plan to provide a boarding school [...]) “Ottawa, 8th October, 1903. Dear Mr. McKenna:- I return your report respecting the Doncaster Reserve and the Resolution of the Caughnawaga Council to the effect that the Band would not during the present year exercise their right to the Reserve in order to give time for the consideration and development of a plan to provide a boarding School on the understanding that the Caughnawaga Band relinquish their right to the Reserve with a view to the same being given as a contribution to the School. You will remember that I stated to you that I was favorably impressed by the School proposal but that the matter was one which would have to be submitted to the Cabinet. I have done so, and after consideration of your report, it has been decided to provide the establishment of the desired School on the implementing the Resolution by a formal surrender of the Reserve. I therefore desire you to...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 334 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 75 (page 2/2) On 8 October 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton exposes to his Secretary, James Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of superintendent general, that the Caughnawaga Band is taking a year off the schedules of the Doncaster’s occupation in order to focus on the transfers organised of their children to certain Residential School, as exposed in his previous report through the previous pages 232-239 exposing passed the Resolution attached hereto (B) agreeing that the Caughnawaga Band shall not exercise their right to the Doncaster Reserve during the present year in order to give time for the consideration and development of a plan to provide a boarding school. [...]” “... arrange to meet at as early a date as possible the Council of the Caughnawaga Band to advise them of this decision and to arrange for the taking of the surrender. I further desire you should enquire and report upon site for the school and have plans ans estimates prepared. The suggestion as to the use of a portion of the Capital of the Province if Quebec Fund for the School building is concurred in, and at the proper time you are to prepare the necessary recommendation to Council to that end. Yours faithfully, Clifford Sifton.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 335 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 76 (page 1/3) On 11 October 1902, Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of Superintendent General exposes that the previous proposal suggested by the Band of the Caughnawaga and aimed for in the Spring, on 12 May 1902, “in favor of relinquishing the Doncaster Reserve for a School is not as strong as in the spring.” But he succeeded in keeping the delay until the end of the year. “Ottawa, 11th October, 1902. Sir:- In accordance with your instructions I met the Council of the Caughnawaga Band yesterday. I fear the feeling in favor of relinquishing the Doncaster Reserve for a School is not as strong as in the spring. The reactionists have not been idle. The Chief Councillor attempted to complicate the issue by making several ques- tions interdependent; but I succeeded in keeping the Council to the resolution passed in May last. They arranged for the calling of a meeting of the voting members of the Band on the 25th instant for the purpose of submit- ting under the provisions of the Indian Act the question of the surrender of the Doncaster Reserve with a view to its being disposed of and proceeds used for the purposes of a boarding school. It was asked that the school be exclusively for the use of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 336 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 77 (page 2/3) On 11 October 1902, Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of Superintendent General exposes that the previous proposal suggested by the Band of the Caughnawaga and aimed for in the Spring, on 12 May 1902, “in favor of relinquishing the Doncaster Reserve for a School is not as strong as in the spring.” But he succeeded in keeping the delay until the end of the year. “ ... Oka the joint owners of the Doncaster Reserve. I replied that the School would be for the Indians of the Province of Quebec and that the further we could go would be to agree that the Iroquois children should be given the first (up to the school’s capacity) right to admission: that is, that we would take all eligible Iroquois children for whom admission was desired, and that vacancies would then be filled from other bands. This was satisfactory to the Council. It was strongly urged that the school should be on Nuns Island, which the Indians claim as part of their Reserve though the Department does not consider it. The Island appears to be held by a religious community and has a valuable buildings and improvements on it. I advise that it was unwise to complicate the matter by introducing a difficult question of title, and a length it was agreed that, if after invest- igation the Department found that there was no ground for the claim to Nuns Island, the school should be placed on another site within a convenient distance. The opinion was...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 337 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 78 (page 3/3) On 11 October 1902, Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposes that the previous proposal suggested by the Band of the Caughnawaga and aimed for in the Spring, on 12 May 1902, “in favor of relinquishing the Doncaster Reserve for a School is not as strong as in the spring.” But he succeeded in keeping the delay until the end of the year. “ ... that the school should have accommodation for at least 200 children. I shall arrange for taking up the question with the Iroquois of Oka. I saw Mr Prefontaine who communicated with me on behalf of the squatters on the Doncaster Reserve; told him that the Council of the Band stood by its agreement not to interfere with the squatters pending the consire- tion and disposal of the proposal to relinquish the Reserve for a school, and that if the Indians at the meeting called for the 25th instant refused to surrender the Reserve we would promptly consider the measures to be adopted to remedy the state of affairs at Doncaster. Your obedient servant, J.A. McKenna.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 338 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 79 a note by Perillard, Indian Agent in the Department of Indian Affairs: “Census 1901 Oka 117 male Iroquois Over 21 Census 1901 Caughnawaga 547 males over 21.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 339 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 80 -On 16 October 1902, Samuel Stewart Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs (who became Keeper of the records in 1905) exposed to his superior that an arrangement has been made for the purpose of the Band of Caughnawaga linked with the Doncaster’s surrendering questions as well as the kids Boarding School. “Ottawa, 16th October, 1902. Sir:- I am directed to inform you that an arrangement has been made for the holding of a meeting of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga for the purpose of considering the question of surrendering their rights to the Doncaster Reserve, the same to be disposed of and the proceeds given as a con- tribution to a Boarding School to be provided, in which School to Iroquois children shall be recognised as having the first right to admission up to the School’s capacity. I am to request you to inform the Iroquois of Oka, who have also an interest in the Doncaster Reserve, that is pur- posed, should the Iroquois of Caughnawaga agree to the surrender of the Reserve, to summon meeting of the Iroquois of Oka for the purpose of submitting the question to them. Your obedient servant, S. Stewart.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 340 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 81 Single hand written note partly unreadable, mentioning: “be used for the purpose of a boarding school for Indian children to be “promoted within convenient distance of Oka and to have accommodations for at least two hundred children, to which school the children of the Iroquois Indians for whom the said Reserve was set aside “male” have the .... regret to ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 341 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 82 On 22 October 1902, Law Clerk of Indian Affairs, Reginald Rimmer sent a letter to Andrew McKenna, Private Secretary of Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing: “ Ottawa, 22nd October 1902. Sir McKenna:- Herewith I send you surrender of Doncaster Reserve with affidavit attached prepared in duplicate for execution and authority to attend Council of the Band prepared for signature of the Superintendent General. x Reginald Rimmer Law Clerk” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 342 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 83 Journal The Star (The Montreal Star), Saturday October 11, 1902. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 343 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 83 Journal The Star (The Montreal Star), Saturday October 11, 1902 (Enlarged) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 344 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 84 Journal Herald 3 October 1902. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 345 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 84 Journal Herald 3 October 1902. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 346 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 85 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 347 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 86 (page 1/3)On 20 August 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton writes to his Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Only male members aged 21 and older were allowed to vote in Band Councils in Canada until 1951. To James Andrew Joseph McKenna, Esquire Assistant Indian Commissioner, For Manitoba, Keewatin and the Northwest Territories. Pursuant to the provision of Section 39 of the Indian Act, Chapter 43 of the Revised Statutes of Canada I, the undersigned, do hereby authorise you to attend a meeting of Council of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga (some- times called the Iroquois of Sault Saint Louis) band of Indians summoned according to the rules of the said band for this purpose of considering the question of release or surrender of the Doncaster Indian Reserve by the said band to the Crown in accordance with the said Act and of assent- ing to such release or surrender if so decides by a majority of the male members at the said band of full age of twenty-one years at the said meeting or Council. Witness my hand and seal this day Of October. A. D., 1902 at the City of Ottawa X Clifford Sifton.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 348 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 87 (page 2/3)On 20 August 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton writes to his Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Only male members aged 21 and older were allowed to vote in Band Councils in Canada until 1951. “KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of the ( or sometimes called the Iroquois of Sault Saint Louis) Iroquois of Caughnawaga, Band of Indians resident on our Reserve at Caughnawaga in the County of Laprairie in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, DO hereby release, remise, surrender, quit and yield up unto OUR SOVEREIGN LORD THE KING, his Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR, that cer- tain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the township of Doncaster in the County of Montcalm and Province of Quebec containing by admeasurement eighteen thousand five hundred acres be the same more or less and being composed of the Doncaster Indian Reserve in the Township and County aforesaid which said reserve is delineated in a plan of record in the Department of Indian th Affairs, dated 20 February, 1858 signed by Andrew Russel Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto His said Majesty the King, his heirs and Successors forever, in trust to dispose of, sell, alienate or lease the same in such manner and upon such term as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conductive to the purposes hereinafter mentioned and upon the further condition that all moneys received from the disposition, sale, alienation or lease thereof shall after deducting the usual proportion for ex- pences of management be applied by the said Government in defraying or by way of contribution to the cost of a boarding school for indian children hereafter to be erected under direction of the said Govern- ment...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 349 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 88 (page 3/3) On 20 August 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton writes to his Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Only male members aged 21 and older were allowed to vote in Band Councils in Canada until 1951. “... and the costs of construction, maintenance and repairs of the said school and the conduct thereof and the maintenance and education of the children attending the same Provideo always that such school shall be situate in the Province of Quebec within convenient distance of Caughnawaga and Oka both in the said Province and shall have accommodation for at least two hundred children and provided also that all applicants for admission to the said school who are children of Iroquois Indians of Caughnawaga or of the Lake of Two Mountains shall have a prior right over all other children to admission to and maintenance and education at the said school so long as any vacancy thereat continues. And we the said Chief and principal men of the said Iroquois of Caughnawaga Band of Indians do on behalf of our own people and for ourselves hereby ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done in connection with the disposition, sale, alienation or lease of the lands hereby surrendered or any part thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this (blank) day of (blank) in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Signed, sealed and delivered ) ) in presence of)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 350 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Amable Roussin: segregationist between Oka and Caughnawaga 1902 On 22 October 1902, Great Chief of Two Mountains-Oka Amable Roussin exposes that on behalf of the Caughnawaga Indians, the Indians of Oka do not wish to sell Doncaster or have a residential school, co-signed with Joseph Perillard, Indian Agent. Even more, in Oka, on 22 October 1902 in a letter entitled “Opinion of the Iroquois of Oka on the request made by the department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, to them.” by the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard to the Honorable Superintendant general of Indian Affairs Ottawa: “Sir, In reply to your request of the 14th Oct 1902, I beg to say that after an interview with the Iroquois of the Oka Reserve not one of them wanted to surrender for the erection of a college in common with the Iroquois of Caughnawaga, moreover, they do not want to sell nor to get rid of their reserve of Doncaster. They want to keep this reserve for the future. Joseph Périllard Indian Agent.” On 28 October 1902, the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard explained that the Iroquois Chief of Two Mountains, Amable Roussin “makes a lot of noise” with a letter in English, that according to Roussin, would expose that the Reserve Doncaster is only entitling the Indians of Two Mountains. The document that Amable Roussin presented to the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard was a letter from 17 June 1839 exposing a letter from John Stewart, Chairman at the Council Chamber on 17 June 1839. The document exposed previous claims petitioned by previous other Native Bands of this period, including the Iroquois, Algonquins and Nipissings of Two Mountains. The letter exposed a description of the history of the Seminary’s possession of “The Iroquois, Algonquins and the Nipissings, collected under the care of the priests of the Seminary of Montreal et Lake of Two Mountains are forming altogether a population of 864 souls, have no land in their actual possession, except about 260 acres of sterile soil, which they occupy by permission of the Seminary, the possessors of the seigniory.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 351 The hunting grounds granted after they supported the French against the English in the Seven Years' War (1754–1763) and after they formed the northern part alliance of the British- led Aboriginal militia that fought the United States in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 were grounds located on the Ottawa River. The letter kept on by exposing other petitions which lead to other disputes for other nation’s hunting grounds, and such petitioners are exposed as: “These petitioners now appeal to the terms of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and it appears to the committee that as the Act of State has been considered sufficient to guarantee to the Iroquois of St. Regis the possession of their present reservation, to which it is stated that they had no other rights than as a part of their ancient hunting ground, the Algonquins and Nipissings tribes may have some grounds to complain if they are deprived of the benefit of the same protection for their claims.” Also, below, it wrote: “The committee, however, conceive that the claims of these, and indeed of all the Indian tribes, in respect of their former territorial possessions, are at the present day to be resolved into an equitable right to be compensated for the loss of the lands from which in former times they derived their subsistence, and which may have been taken by the Government for purposes of settlements and that the measure of such compensations should be to place and maintain them in a condition of at least equal advantage with that which they would have enjoyed in their former state.” Then, after hearing the theories of Amable Roussin, the Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. McLean answered back in a letter on 4 November 1902 to Joseph Perillard to clarify the context of the time period in which the creation of reserves granted for Indians were managed, contradicting Amable Roussin’s speculations. Note that Amable Roussin was often encountered in several precedent court cases against the Seminary of St. Sulpice claiming justice for the Mohawks, Algonquins and Nipissing in order to set the unfair land jurisdictions and measures of the Lordship of Two Mountains granted by the King. In the records of proceeding which exposed the creation of the Two Mountains Lordship and the steps to its grant by the King, from 1717 to 1721, in most correspondences and official documents it was mentioned in these or similar terms: “when the savages will abandon their lands, this one will also return to the King” exposing the difference between a reserve and a Crown Land. Up to the present days, this complex ownership of the land remains extraordinary. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 352 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 89 On 22 October 1902, Great Chief of Two Mountains-Oka Amable Roussin exposes that on behalf of the Caughnawaga Indians, the Indians of Oka do not wish to sell Doncaster or have a residential school, co-signed with Joseph Perillard, Indian Agent. “Oka, 22 oct 1902 Opinion des sauvages Iroquois d’Oka sur la demande faite à eu par le département des affaires des indiens d’Ottawa. L’Honorable Surintendant général des affaires des sauvages Ottawa Monsieur, En réponse à votre demande du 14 oct 1902, Voici d’après une entrevue avec les Iroquois de la réserve d’Oka nous ne voulong pas aucune annexation pour l’Érection d’un colège en commun avec les Iroquois de Caughna- waga, de plus nous ne voulong pas vendre ni nous défaire de notre réserve de Doncaster nous voulong conserver cette Réserve pour l’avenir. Témoin signé (Witness) (Signed) Chef Amable Roussin Joseph Périllard Agent des Indiens.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 353 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 90 On 22 October 1902, Great Chief of Two Mountains-Oka Amable Roussin exposes that on behalf of the Caughnawaga Indians, the Indians of Oka do not wish to sell Doncaster or have a residential school, co-signed with Joseph Perillard, Indian Agent. –TRANSLATION- “Oka, 22 oct 1902 Opinion of the Iroquois of Oka on the request made by the department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, to them. The Honorable Superintendant general Of Indian Affairs Ottawa. Sir :-, In reply to your request of the 14th Oct 1902, I beg to say that after an interview with the Iroquois of the Oka Reserve not one of them wanted to surrender for the erection of a college in common with the Iroquois of Caughnawaga, more- over, they do not want to sell nor to get rid of their reserve of Doncaster. They want to keep this reserve for the future. Joseph Périllard Indian Agent. Witness (Signed) Chef Amable Roussin” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 354 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters 25 October 1902, vote made against the surrender of Doncaster in exchange for a residential schools A powerful democratic vote result was rendered in Caughnawaga by males, major members, which exposed: only 5, those “in favor of endeavor” and 74 others, “those against.” On 23 October 1902, Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna writes to his Superior, the Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton, citing the telegram received the same day from Indian Agent J.A. Macrae which went as: “Am advised here that Caughnawaga general Council may at present go against McKennas plan for disposing of Doncaster reserve going to absence of progressive Indians it might be discreet to postpone Council of twenty fifth until return of such Indians.” Even more developments, from a letter from Smith, Markey & Montgomery Advocates, from Montreal on 27 October 1902 to the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that: “Indians from Caughnawaga and also Indians residing in the Township of Doncaster who desire to take proceedings for the ejectment of a number of squatters” and that legal procedures are opened. On 25 October 1902, a document-letter states that : “At a meeting of the Iroquois tribe residing in the Caughnawaga Indian Reserve, Canada, The question of surrendering their share in the Doncaster Reserve as their contribution to the erection of a boarding school for 200 of their children at or near the said Reserve was voted upon held at Council room Caughnawaga on 25th Oct., 1902,[...]” Only 5, those “in favor of endeavor” of surrendering Doncaster the residential school and 74 others, were qualified as “those against”, which led to the eventual updates for the surveying of the land of Doncaster in order to reset the original measurements by the Surveyor Bray, which will be the next theme encountered. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 355 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 91 Telegraph of 23 October 1902 from Indian Agent J.A. Macrae then in Campbelton New Brunswick to his superior, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton. “Am advised here that Caughnawaga general Council may at present go against McKennas plan for disposing of Doncaster reserve going to absence of progressive Indians it might be discreet to postpone Council of twenty fifth until return of such indians J.A McRae.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 356 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 92(page 1/2) On 23 October 1902, Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna writes to his Superior, the Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton, citing the telegram received the same day from Indian Agent J.A. Macrae which went as: “Am advised here that Caughnawaga general Council may at present go against McKennas plan for disposing of Doncaster reserve going to absence of progressive Indians it might be discreet to postpone Council of twenty fifth until return of such Indians.” Doc 34070 “Ottawa, 23rd October, 1902 Sir Sifton:- What Mr. McRae states in his telegram is not news to me. I had learned probably sooner than Mr. McRea that since the date of the meeting of the Band was fixed quite a number of younger men of the Band had gone to work at the shanties, and knew that thus the chances of securing a surrender were lessened. I have also today a letter from the Agent advising me that he greatly fears that the Indians will vote against the surrender. I do not however consider that it would be good policy to postpone the meet- ing as suggested by Mr. McRae. When I attended the meeting of the Council last Friday I found that the Chief’s attitude of opposition had gained strength from the delay which occured between the affecting of the arrangement in the spring and the section taken last Friday with a view to having it carried out, and the fact that in the meantime the Department had officially declared itself against the school. However the date was fixed with the Council and notice issued in accordance with the Regula- tions of the Band as provided by the Indian Act, and it is questionable whether the Department has the right to post- pone such a meeting. I come to the conclusion that the best course to follow was to have the meeting as arranged on te 25th, to attend, do the best I could to secure a...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 357 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 93 (page 2/2) On 23 October 1902, Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna writes to his Superior, the Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton, citing the telegram received the same day from Indian Agent J.A. Macrae which went as: “Am advised here that Caughnawaga general Council may at present go against McKennas plan for disposing of Doncaster reserve going to absence of progressive Indians it might be discreet to postpone Council of twenty fifth until return of such Indians.” “... surrender, and, if I found they were likely to refuse, to endeavor to get the Indians then postpone voting on the question until there was time for further consideration and another meeting assembled. I did not feel I would be warranted in troubling you with the matter and therefore did not mention it to you. J.A. McKenna.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 358 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 94 (page 1/2)Letter from Smith, Markey & Montgomery Advocates, from Montreal on 27 October 1902 to the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that: “Indians from Caughnawaga and also Indians residing in the Township of Doncaster who desire to take proceedings for the ejectment of a number of squatters” and that legal procedures are opened. “Smith, Markey & Montgomery Advocates Temple Building th 185 St. James Street Montreal, Oct. 27th 1902 Dear Sir:- We have been consulted by some Indians from Caughnawaga and also Indians residing in the Township of Doncaster who desire to take proceedings for the ejectment of a number of squatters who, they allege, have taken possession of portions of this re- servation in Doncaster and are cutting down and sell- ing the wood from it, According to the plan in their possession this reservation, consisting of 185000 acres and forming the First to the Sixth ranges inclusive, of the township appears to have been appropriated as an Indian Reservation on the 20th of February 1858. We have advised them that any complaint which they have ought to be made to your Department , and they have asked us to write drawing your attention to the mat- ter. They did not communicate to the names of the alleged trespassers, but we understand that they have...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 359 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 95 (page 2/2)Letter from Smith, Markey & Montgomery Advocates, from Montreal on 27 October 1902 to the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing that: “Indians from Caughnawaga and also Indians residing in the Township of Doncaster who desire to take proceedings for the ejectment of a number of squatters” and that legal procedures are opened. “... already given information to your Department, both as to the names of the intruders, and the particulars lo- calities where they have settled. We are Sir, Your truly Smith, Markey & Montgomery” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 360 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 96 Letter from John D. McLean, Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs answering on 30 October 1902 to Smith, Markey & Montgomery Advocates. “Ottawa, 30th October, 1901. Gentlemen:- Referring to your letter of the 27th instant’ relating to the desire of Indians from Caughnawaga and Doncaster for the ejectment of squatters from the Don- caster Reserve, I have to inform you that the matter is being thoroughly investigated and will receive careful consideration. Your obedient servant, J.D. MacLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 361 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 97 Law Clerk of Indian Affairs, Reginald Rimmer answering to the Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. MacLean concerning the letters from the lawyers. “Mr. McKenna:- Herewith, I send file 34, 070 Ty. with letter of 27th instant from Messrs. Smith, Markey & Mont- gomery and Department’s reply of to day for your informa- tion in connection with Doncaster Case, As I understand the whole matter of surrender or the alternative of eject- ment of squatters has received consideration of the Min- ister and is likely to receive further consideration on your report, I cannot well take present action: but must await the Minister’s decision. Please note the contents of the letter and return file, in order to save the necessity of more temporary files. x Reginald Rimmer.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 362 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 98-99-100 containing the original and stamped letter as observed on the previous pages 86-88 from 20 August 1902, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 363 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 98-99-100 containing the original and stamped letter as observed on the previous pages 86-88 from 20 August 1902, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 364 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 101 to 106, start with a copy of the 3 previous pages: Page 98-99-100 containing the original and stamped letter as also observed on the previous pages 86-88 from 20 August 1902, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 365 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 107- On 25 October 1902, a document-letter states that : “At a meeting of the Iroquois tribe residing in the Caughnawaga Indian Reserve, Canada, The question of surrendering their share in the Doncaster Reserve as their contribution to the erection of a boarding school for 200 of their children at or near the said Reserve was voted upon held at Council room Caughnawaga on 25th Oct., 1902, the said school to be erected and maintained on the ...(unreadable)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 366 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 106-107- On 25 October 1902, below the previous statement, the names of only 5, those “in favor of endeavor” and 74 others, “those against” were exposed as: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 367 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 106-107- On 25 October 1902, below the previous statement, the names of only 5, those “in favor of endeavor” and 74 others, “those against” were exposed on the last page of the petition as “Against, not in favor”: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 368 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 108 A note exposing the sum up of the meeting held on 25th October 1902: “Voting closed at 4.⁴⁵ pm in farm of those refrain to surrender the Reserve of Doncaster these being no more votes offered x J. Warriente Jocks Acting clerk of poll.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 369 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 109 (original of the copy observed on page 86 of this reel )On 20 August 1902, Indian Affairs Superintendent Clifford Sifton writes to his Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna, suggesting the proper formula for the Chief and voters of Caughnawaga to submit and abandon Doncaster for a residential school, suggested by Ottawa. Only male members aged 21 and older were allowed to vote in Band Councils in Canada until 1951. To James Andrew Joseph McKenna, Esquire Assistant Indian Commissioner, For Manitoba, Keewatin and the Northwest Territories. Pursuant to the provision of Section 39 of the Indian Act, Chapter 43 of the Revised Statutes of Canada I, the undersigned, do hereby authorise you to attend a meeting of Council of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga (some- times called the Iroquois of Sault Saint Louis) band of Indians summoned according to the rules of the said band for this purpose of considering the question of release or surrender of the Doncaster Indian Reserve by the said band to the Crown in accordance with the said Act and of assent- ing to such release or surrender if so decides by a majority of the male members at the said band of full age of twenty-one years at the said meeting or Council. Witness my hand and seal this day Of October. A. D., 1902 at the City of Ottawa X Clifford Sifton Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 370 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 110 On 28 October 1902, the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard explain that the Iroquois Chief of Two Mountains, Amable Roussin “makes a lot of noise” with a letter in English, that according to Roussin, would expose that the Reserve Doncaster is only entitling the Indians of Two Mountains. “Joseph Perillard Oka, 28 Oct 1902. The Honorable Superintendent General Of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. Sir, I am sending you, included here, a document concerning the Reserve of Doncaster, from which the Chief Amable Roussin who begged me to send it to the Department in order to examine its content. The Chief Roussin is pretending that the Iroquois of Caughnawaga have no rights at all i this reserve. Since I do not know enough English, to explain its content, I am asking to the department to expose to me the content of this piece since I understand better the block letters. Chief Roussin makes a lot of noise with this document. Your obedient servant Joseph Perillard, Indian Agent.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 371 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 111-116 The document that Amable Roussin presented to the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard was a letter from 17 June 1839 exposing a letter from John Stewart, Chairman at the Council Chamber on 17 June 1839. The document exposed previous claims petitioned by previous other Native Bands of this period, including the Iroquois, Algonquins and Nipissings of Two Mountains. (Here, picture of the original document on reel; next pages are transcriptions) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 372 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 111-116 The document that Amable Roussin presented to the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard was a letter from 17 June 1839 exposing a letter from John Stewart, Chairman at the Council Chamber on 17 June 1839. The document exposed previous claims petitioned by previous other Native Bands of this period, including the Iroquois, Algonquins and Nipissings of Two Mountains. (Transcriptions) Source: Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890: In Two Volumes, Volume 1, Editor, Chamberlain, 49 Printer of the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, Ottawa, 1891. 49 Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890: In Two Volumes, Volume 1, Editor, Chamberlain, Printer of the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, Ottawa, 1891. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 373 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 111-116 Here a description of the history of the Seminary’s possession of “The Iroquois, Algonquins and the Nipissings, collected under the care of the priests of the Seminary of Montreal et Lake of Two Mountains are forming altogether a population of 864 souls, have no land in their actual possession, except about 260 acres of sterile soil, which they occupy by permission of the Seminary, the possessors of the seigniory.” The hunting grounds granted after they supported the French against the English in the Seven Years' War (1754–1763) and after they formed the northern part alliance of the British- led Aboriginal militia that fought the United States in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 were grounds located on the Ottawa River. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 374 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 111-116 Other petitions lead to other disputes for other nation’s hunting grounds, and such petitioners are exposed as: “These petitioners now appeal to the terms of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and it appears to the committee that as the Act of State has been considered sufficient to guarantee to the Iroquois of St. Regis the possession of their present reservation, to which it is stated that they had no other rights than as a part of their ancient hunting ground, the Algonquins and Nipissings tribes may have some grounds to complain if they are deprived of the benefit of the same protection for their claims.” Also, below, it writes: “The committee, however, conceive that the claims of these, and indeed of all the Indian tribes, in respect of their former territorial possessions, are at the present day to be resolved into an equitable right to be compensated for the loss of the lands from which in former times they derived their subsistence, and which may have been taken by the Government for purposes of settlements and that the measure of such compensation [...]” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 375 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 111-116 “[...]compensations should be to place and maintain them in a condition of at least equal advantage with that which they would have enjoyed in their former state.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 376 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 118 (117 was the translation of page 110 of the Indian Agent Perillard about Amable Roussin.) Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. McLean answering in a letter on 4 November 1902 to Joseph Perillard to clarify the context of the time period in which the creation of reserves granted for Indians were managed, contradicting Amable Roussin’s speculations. “Ottawa, 4th November, 1902. Sir:- In reply to your letter of the 25th alt., inclosing a document which was handed you by Chief Amable Roussin, I have to point cut that whatever may have been the intention of the Government at the time of the report of Council referred to in your letter, it was not until 1851 that an act was passed authorising the appropria- tion of land in Quebec for the purpose of the Indian reserves, and that by a subsequent Order in Coun- cil in 1853 the Doncaster Reserve was appropriate- ed to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Oka and that, consequently, ther appears to be no ground for the contention that the Doncaster re- serve is the property only if the Iroquois of Oka. Your obedient servant J.D. McLean Secretary” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 377 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 119 Letter from Joseph Perillard from 10 November 1902 to his Surintendent General Clifford Sifton concerning the speculations brought apart by Amable Roussin. “Oka, 10 Nov. 1902 Sir, Referring To your letter of the 4th November Instant. The Chief Amable Roussin asks if the Department will be good enough to send him a copy of the document for the Doncaster Reserve made in 1856. You, &C Joseph Perillard, Indian Agent.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 378 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 120 a correction to be made is mentioned by George M. Matheson (who was employed in the Records Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1888 until his retirement as head registrar in 1936.) to Scott Stewart, Indian Affairs Secretary on 13 November 1902 concerning precisions about the Creation of Reserves in 1853 put in action on 1856. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 379 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 121 a confirmation of the correction to be made is mentioned by Scott Stewart, Indian Affairs Secretary on 17 November 1902 to Perillard, Indian Agent concerning the Creation of Reserves in 1853 put in action on 1856. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 380 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 122 a confirmation of the Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. McLean answering in a letter on 23 December 1902 to Chief of Oka, Peter Oke to clarify the context of the time period in which the creation of reserves granted for Indians: 9 August 1853. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 381 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Legal procedure toward surveying and expulsions of the squatters 1902-1905 In a letter from Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries on 4 August 1902, exposed potential other lands that the Iroquois could use other than Doncaster, on the maps observed on pages 150-153, in the area of the Manouan River, to Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. Maclean. Also, on page 155 Doc 34070 /2TY, Correspondence from Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries, exposing that: “Western boundaries of the Indian Reserve which comprise the Southeast quarter of the township of Doncaster require to be retraced and permanently established on the ground.” It went as: “Sir,- The western boundary of the Indian Reserve which comprise the southeast quarter of the township of Doncaster, Que., require to be retraced and permanently established on the ground. It would appear that this tract of land includes Lots 31 to 40, in ranges 1-2-3-4-5 and 6, and should be bounded on the west by the Centre Line of the township. On the ground, however, in one or more of the said concessions, Lot 30 has been laid out to the east of the Centre Line, and sold by your Department, and is now occupied by the purchasers. It would, therefore, appear that that the Centre Line is not actually the west boundary of the reserve. It is thought that this line falls under the operation of Article 4156 of the Revised Statutes of Quebec and the instructions for the same will require to be issued by the Commissioner of your Department. I shall fell obliged of you will be good enough to have prepared as soon as possible, and forward to me the said instructions, which will be given to the Surveyor who may be appointed. It is presumed that your Department will have no objection to the appointment of any Surveyor who has been duly authorized for the Province of Quebec. The expense of the survey will of course be borne by this Department. Your obedient servant. x L.D. F. Pedley, Deputy Sup. General of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 382 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Legal procedures which led to making the government walking on a thin wire started occurring after the reception of a letter from Leet & Harvey Lawyer’s cabinet from 30 December 1902 to Clifford Sifton the Superintendent of Indian Affairs which exposing the vote of the last Caughnawaga council in which Doncaster obtained majorities in the vote against investments for the residential schools. “Leet & Harvey, Temple Building Advocate, Barristers, As Montreal December 20th, 1902 TO: Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, Ont. Dear Sir, I have been retained by the Caughnawaga Band of Indians to visit Ottawa and to have a personal interview with you to interfere to:- 1. Their rights and privileges in reference to the Doncaster Reserve In this matter some time ago some of the Chiefs came to me and told me that there had been an election in Caughnawaga in reference to a School house there, which they under- stood had something to do with waiving their rights in the Doncaster Reserve. They only came to me after the election had taken place, and told me that one reason why the vote was as it was, was because the Chiefs of the Band did not fully understand what it meant, and wished me to find out for hem exactly how the matter stood. 2. As to who should be considered members of the Band. This particular related to certain people who are residing on the Reserve at Caughnawaga, and upon this question I have had some communication with your Department already. They have also told me that the same question has arisen, and is likely to arise to reference to the Doncaster Reserve. It should be convenient for me to go up to Ottawa someday next year, if you could make it convenient to make an appointment for them. If you can comply with this request, and can make appointment, please let me know as soon as you can, Yours truly, Leet & Harvey” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 383 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters On 7 February 1903 J.A.J. McKenna, Commissary and Private Secretary of superintendent General of Indian Affairs annexed to J.D. McLean, secretary of Indian Affairs a Detailed Statement of Valuations of improvements of squatters of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, P.Q from the Chief Surveyor, Samuel Bray, from 22nd April, 1903, which accompanied his report of the 12th May last in which the statement brought informations about all lands squatted. As seen previously but also important here, a report from 13 March 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Samuel Stewart depicted a complete review of the situation until then, which went as: “By Statute 14 & 15 Vic., Cha. 106, lands amounting in all to 230,000 acres were set apart for Indian Tribes in Lower Canada. Of this amount a reserve containing 18,500 acre was granted to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Two Mountains in the Township of Wexford (now Doncaster), County of Montcalm, and was confirmed to them by Order in Council of 9th August, 1853. This reserve has never been occupied by the Indians Reports regarding the lands have been made by Mr. Fillion, Bushranger for the Quebec Crown Lands Department, Mr. Bray, Chief Surveyor, Mr. McKenna, Assistant Indian Commissioner, Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Reserves, all of whom visited the reserve and agree in saying that it as well as the surrounding Townships consist of steep, rocky hills, with practically no plains between them. The soil, it is further stated, is without exception a sandy loam of medium quality, and no one but those who are willing to work very hard and live very frugally can possibly make a living in this rough, sandy district. The value of the land is given as from 30 to 33 cents per acre. The Reserve when set apart contained a considerable quantity of good merchantable timber. In 1869 a license to cut the same was granted to Messrs. Cushing Bros., of Repentigny who paid a bonus of $350.00 in addition to ground rent and timber dues for the privilege, but they allowed the license to lapse in 1872 owing to the difficulty of getting the logs down the streams. A license to cut the spruce and cedar timber was granted to the Charlemagne and Lac Onareau Lumber Co. In 1886 on payment of Two hundred dollars bonus in addition to ground rent and timber dues. This license is still in force. The first intimation received by the Department regarding the squatters was from the Crown Lands Departments, Quebec, in November 1881, and that Department offered to send a competent Bushranger to investigate and report if desired. In reply the Department asked that this be done, and that all squatters on the reserve be notified to leave at once. In compliance with this request, Mr. A. B. Fillion was sent to the reserve and his report of 15th December, 1881, states the he found fifteen families occupying lands belonging to the Indians, and that he had served them with notice to leave. Mr. Fillion valued the improvements owned by the settlers at $1635.00. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 384 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters The notice did not have the desired effect, as several of those, who are now on the reserve, are evidently, judging by the names, of the same families, who were there in 1881, while others claim to have purchased from the persons mentioned by Mr. Filion. The settlers were also notified to leave by Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Agencies, in August, 1893. Mr. McKenna visited the reserve in May, 1902, and re- ported sixteen persons as holding lands on the reserve of from 100 to 450 acres in extent. The values of the improvements as given to Mr. McKenna by the settlers themselves totalled $17,800.00. As early as September, 1873, the Crown Lands Department, Quebec, proposed that, as the Doncaster Reserve was not occupied by Indians, or likely to be so, and as it was important, in view of the settlement in this Township, that the block of land should be offered for sale to actual settlers, (blank space ) it be transferred to the Government of the Province of Quebec in exchange for an equal area of land in another locality, better suited to the wants of the indians, or, in case such an exchange could not be made, that the land in question be offered for sale by the De-partment. In accordance with the proposition, Mr. De Boucherville, the Lands Sales Clerk, was sent to Caughnawaga, to endeavour to obtain a surrender from the Indians but could not get their consent and the matter was allowed to drop for the time being. In April last the Crown Lands Department again offered, in the event of the Indians surrendering the reserve, to set aside another tract of land of the same extent in exchange for the same. Very strong representations have from time to time been made to this Department by the Crown Lands Departments, by the settlers themselves, by the adjoining Municipality and by Members of Parliament, that the reserve should be opened for sale. The difficulty in the way of this action has been, however, that this Department, after repeated attempts, as failed to obtain a surrender of the reserve from the Indians. The efforts of this direction may be enumerated:- In August, 1874 by Mr. De Boucherville, Lands Sales Clerk, May 1893, “ Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Agencies, May 1894, “ Mr. McKenna, Secretary to Deputy Minister, May 1901, “ Mr. Bray, Chief Surveyor, May 1902, “ Mr. McKenna, Assistant Indian Commissioner, Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 385 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters It may be mentioned that the settlers have all along admitted they were aware, when they took up holding, that the lands were included in an Indian Reserve, but further state that they were given to understand, they would not be interfered with. The Indians have demanded, that they be put in possession of the reserve, and also, that the settlers be made to pay a rental for the lands occupied by them. x S. Stewart Assistant Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 386 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters It is followed by another important temporal updates of the legal procedures, pages 134 to 138 exposing Memorandum report, here from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart which went as: “Ottawa, 3rd April, 1903. Memorandum:- The Superintendent General. The Doncaster Reserve, situated in the County of Montcalm, containing 18,000 acres, was set apart by Statute 14 and 15 Voc., Ch. 106, for the benefit of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Two Mountains. The Reserve has never been occupied by the Indians, and in October, 1873, and again in May, 1902, the Crown Lands Department, Quebec, proposed, in view of the progress of settlement, that the Reserve be transferred to the Province in exchange for an equal tract of land in another locality, or that, in case such an exchange could not be made, the land in ques-tion be offered for sale by the Department. The matter was referred to the Indians, and they were asked to surrender the Reserve in order that it might be sold for their benefit. It was pointed out to them that the advance of settlement in that part of the country where the reserve is situated and its distance from the residence of any officer of the Department made it difficult to protect the land from being squatted upon or the timber pillaged. The Indians, however, refused t surrender the Reserve: and, although the matter has been submitted to them on five different occasions, it has always been with the same result. The Agent who visited the Reserve in 1873 found a number of squatters on the Reserve, and since that date others have also taken up land and built houses thereon. These persons have several times been notified to leave, but action for their ejectment has not been taken owing to representation representation that have been made to the Department by the Crown Lands Department, by the authorities of the ad-joining municipality, by Members of Parliament and by the settlers themselves. It was anticipated by the Department, as well as by the settlers and their friends, that the Indians would eventually consent to surrender the Reserve, as the land was reported to be of poor quality and difficult of cultivation. There was little reason, therefore, for thinking that the Indians would desire to settle down on it with the expectation of making a living by farming. The Indians have now, however, signified their intention of at once occupying the Reserve and have demanded that the trespassers be removed without delay, but before this action can be taken the claim of the squatters for compensation for their improvements requires to be dealt with. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 387 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters These squatters state that they took up their holding in good faith, and with the conviction that the Reserve would be opened for sale. The fact that he De- partment has to a certain extant acquiesced in the trespass is also given as a reason why they should be compensated for their improvements if they are compelled to remove from the Reserve. It is felt that there is considerable force in the argument urged on behalf of the squatters, and that their continued occupation, most of them for periods of from twenty-five to forty years, together with the Department’s inaction, gives them a claim which cannot well be overlook- ed. The lands trespassed upon amount to 2,800 acres, and the improvements on the holdings given by the squatters themselves total some $17,800.00. In dealing with this matter it should, however, be borne in mind that the squatters have had the free use of the land all these years and that they, living on an Indian Reserve, have not been required to pay taxes. In addition, they have had the benefit, of which it is stated they have taken full advantage, of the timber on the Reserve outside of the spruce and cedar, which alone is covered by license. In the event of its being decided to pay for the improvements, it will be necessary to have the money provided by a vote of Parliament. The Oka Indians have no funds and the funds of the Caughnawaga Band are not sufficient to bear the charge of paying the amount required. The claims of the Indians cannot, it is thought, be overlooked that the failure of the Department to protect the Reserve from intrusion puts the burden of compensation on its shoulders. There is no doubt but that the longer the settlement of this matter is delayed the more difficult will it be to come to a satisfactory arrangement. Some of the Caughnawaga Indians have already been restrained with difficulty from taking possession of house owned by the squatters; and the Oka Indians, who feel that they have been unjustly deprived of the lands at the Lake of Two Mountains, will make the most of any delay in putting them in possession of the Reserve at Doncaster. Roads Through The Reserve:- The Department of Agriculture and Colonisation, Quebec, and the Members of Parliament for the Counties of Montcalm and Terrebonne have pointed out that no roads have been opened up through the Doncaster Reserve. In consequence, they state, the settlers in the surrounding town- Ships are seriously inconvenienced, as they are obliged to ride from 10 to 15 miles in order to reach a railway station with the products of their farms. Messrs. Prefontaine and Dugas have asked that the Department come to the relief of the settlers and help the municipalities interested in constructing proper roads through the Reserve and highways leading to it. They ask that a sum of $5,000.00 be allocated and spent under the control of the Department to open said roads. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 388 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters In connection with these applications attentionis called to Section 35 of the Indian Act as amended by Section 5 of 50-51 Vic., Ch. 23, which provides that “No por- “ tion of any reserve shall be taken for the purposes of “ any railway, road or public work without the consent of “ the Governor in Council, and if any railway, road or pub- “ lic work passes through or causes injury to any reserve “ belonging to or in possession of any band of Indians, or “ if any act occasioning damage to any reserve is done un- “ der the authority of an Act of Parliament, or of the Leg- “ islature of any Province, compensation shall be made to “ them therefor in the same manner as is provided with res- “ pect to the lands or rights of other persons.” Under Section 38 as repealed y Section 3 of 61 Vic., Chp. 24m no reserve or portion of a reserve shall be sold, alienated or leased until the same has been released or surrendered to the Crown. It is doubtful whether the Indians would consent at present to surrender any portion of the Reserve. If the Indians were residing on the Reserve they could be compelled under Section 33 as repealed by Section 1, Ch. 33, Vic. 61, and Section 34 to make reads and keep them in order through the Reserve. Under the circumstances the only way in which the wishes of the Department of Colonisation and of the Members for the Counties of Montcalm and Terrebonne can be met would be apparently be by this Department’s obtaining a grant from Parliament for the purpose and having the roads made for the improvement of the Reserve and for the benefit of the Indians. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 389 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Valuation of Improvements of squatters on the Doncaster Indian Reserve. P.Q. from 22 April 1903 by Surveyor in Chief Samuel Bray was sent to Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa, “Ottawa, 22nd April, 1903 The Deputy Supt. General, -- I beg to report that I have returned from the Doncaster Indian Reserve, where in accordance with your instructions I made the valuations of the different squatters’ improvements on the reserve. I beg to hand you herewith a statement of the same showing the total valuation to be $11, 325. (The total valuation as given by the squatters to Mr. McKenna amounted to $17,800) together with a detailed statement. I may say that the valuations are fair, especially when the fact is taken into consideration that the occupants have held the land for many years without paying rent. The different squatters with probably not one exception will accept the amounts of my valuation, if offered to them. I have, however, to draw your attention to the fact that the West boundary of the Reserve is very indefinite, and in fact its location on the ground is not known within any reasonable distance. It is, therefore, quite possible that when this line is surveyed all the improvements of Israel Thouin, No. 1 on the list, except some clearing may be found to be actually outside of the reserve. This will reduce the statement considerably. The said survey, I beg to submit, should be made as soon as anything definite has been decided upon with regard to the action to be taken in connection with the reserve. Samuel Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 390 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters an Extract from Memorandum- Original on File No. 162,095: When the delegation chosen to observe the fact of the squatters came back, they came to an unanimous decision: “Ottawa, 12th June, 1903 On June 11th a deputation of the Caughnawaga Indians called at the Department and stated that they had visited the Doncaster Reserve and after laying the matter before the band the Indians had decided that they would not surrender the Reserve and asked the Government to have the squatters removed signed F.P (Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs).” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 391 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters A letter from Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries on 4 August 1903, to Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. Maclean exposing potential other lands that the Iroquois could use other than Doncaster, on the maps observed on pages 150-153, in the area of the Manouan River. Latter a correspondence from Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Deputy Minister E.E. Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries, of 21 November 1903, exposed: “the Western boundaries of the Indian Reserve which comprise the Southeast quarter of the township of Doncaster require to be retraced and permanently established on the ground.” “Sir,-The western boundary of the Indian Reserve which comprise the southeast quarter of the township of Doncaster, Que., require to be retraced and permanently established on the ground. It would appear that this tract of land includes Lots 31 to 40, in ranges 1-2-3-4-5 and 6, and should be bounded on the west by the Centre Line of the township. On the ground, however, in one or more of the said concessions, Lot 30 has been laid out to the east of the Centre Line, and sold by your Department, and is now occupied by the purchasers. It would, therefore, appear that that the Centre Line is not actually the west boundary of the reserve. It is thought that this line falls under the operation of Article 4156 of the Revised Statutes of Quebec and the instructions for the same will require to be issued by the Commissioner of your Department. I shall fell obliged of you will be good enough to have prepared as soon as possible, and forward to me the said instructions, which will be given to the Surveyor who may be appointed. It is presumed that your Department will have no objection to the appointment of any Surveyor who has been duly authorized for the Province of Quebec. The expense of the survey will of course be borne by this Department. Your obedient servant. x L.D. F. Pedley, Deputy Sup. General of Indian Affairs.” On 20 November 1903, Chief Surveyor S. Bray putting the emphasis on the importance to appoint a surveyor as soon as possible for the west boundary of the Doncaster Reserve. On 25 Novembre 1903, Frank Pedley expose to the Surveyor in Chief Bray that Mr F.C. Laberge was appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 392 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters On 25 January 1904 Surveyor Bray exposes to the Deputy Superintendent General of the Department of Indian Affairs that: “Referring to the Secretary’s memorandum of the 10th inst., hereunder, I beg to draw your attention to the fact that the Doncaster Indian Reserve has never been subdivided. The result is that the few squatters, near its west boundary, have settled on it with practically no lines to guide them as to what projected lots they may be settling on. The Indians of course will do even worse than the Whites, and settle as they have done in Caughnawaga in the most indiscriminate manner which has led to great trouble and expense. I beg to submit for your consideration that an order be issued to the effect that no settlement, of any permanent nature, shall be made by the Indians on the Don- caster Reserve, until the same has been properly surveyed and subdivided. This work, I think, should be undertaken as soon as the west boundaries has been defined, and should be paid for from the funds of the Band. If the land is subdivided late Fifty Acre Lots, the Council of the band could then locate, subject to the approval of the Superintendent General, any lots or half lots to any Indians if may think proper. x S. Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 393 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 123 (page 1/2) letter from Leet (...et) & Harvey Lawyer’s cabinet from 30 December 1902 to Clifford Sifton the Superintendent of Indian Affairs exposing the vote of the last Caughnawaga council in which Doncaster obtained majorities in the vote against investments for the residential schools. “(...et) & Harvey, Temple Building Advocate, Barristers, As Montreal December 20th, 1902 Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, Ont. Dear Sir, I have been retained by the Caughnawaga Band of Indians to visit Ottawa and to have a personal interview with you to interfere to:- 1. Their rights and privileges in reference to the Doncaster Reserve 1- In this matter some time ago some of the Chiefs came to me and told me that there had been an election in Caughna- waga in reference to a School house there, which they under- stood had something to do with waiving their rights in the Doncaster Reserve. They only came to me after the election had taken place, and told me that one reason why the vote was as it was, was because the Chiefs of the Band did not fully understand what it meant, and wished me to find out for hem exactly how the matter stood. 2. As to who should be considered members of the Band. This particular related to certain people who are residing on the Reserve at Caughnawaga, and upon this question I have had some communication with your Department already. They have also told me that the same question has arisen, and is likely to arise to reference to the Doncaster Reserve. It should be convenient for me to go up to Ottawa...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 394 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 124 (page 2/2) letter from Leet (...et) & Harvey Lawyer’s cabinet from 30 December 1902 to Clifford Sifton the Superintendent of Indian Affairs exposing the vote of the last Caughnawaga council in which Doncaster obtained majorities in the vote against investments for the residential schools. -2- “... some day next year, if you could make it convenient to make an appointment for them. If you can comply with this request, and can make appointment, please let me know as soon as you can, Yours truly, Set & Harvey” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 395 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 125 Letter of 4 February 1903 from Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs explaining to Minister Marines and Fisheries of Ottawa, Mr Prefontaine, that he organised a copy of each of the letters archived from last year as listed: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 396 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 126 Letter-Memorandum of 4 February 1903 from Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Fyle exposing a reminder: “In dealing with the question of the Doncaster Reserve, it is desired to make provision, if possible, for the opening of a road through same. Signed x FP D.S.G.I.A” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 397 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 127 Letter-Memorandum of 4 February 1903 from Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing a reminder concerning Mr. McLean: “Will you please ascertain from Mr. McKenna, if the information is not on fyle, what he took as the basis on his evaluation for the improvements of the Doncaster Reserve, as made by him in May last. Signed x Frank Pedley D.S.G.I.A” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 398 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 128 Letter of 4 February 1903 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs, to Assistant Indian Commissionaire James Andrew McKenna, Ottawa, J.A.J. McKenna, Esq., Asst. Indian Commissioner, Ottawa. “Ottawa, 4th Feb., 1903 Sir,- I am directed to request that you will be good enough to advise the Department on what the information was based regarding the value of the improvements made by the squatters on the Doncaster Re- serve, a statement of which which ac- companied your report of the 12th May last. Your obedient servant, J.D.McLean Secretary” [Draft] Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 399 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 129 (page 1/2)Letter of 7 February 1903 from J.A.J. McKenna, commissary, to J.D. McLean, secretary of Indian Affairs. “Ottawa, 7th February, 1903. Sir, I have your letter of the 4th instant, File 34070-2 in which you inform me that you are directed to request me to advise the Department on what the information was based regarding the value of the improvements made by the squatters on the Doncaster Reserve, a statement of which accompanied my report of the 12th May last. In reply I beg to refer you to the second para- graph of the first page of my said report in which you will find the statement described by me as “giving the information which I obtained from the squatters when I met them recently at Ste. Lucie.” I would also refer you to the statement itself in which you will find it clearly set forth in each case but one that the stated value of improvements is the value fixed by each squatter himself. The exception is the case of Viau (numbered 16) who lives in Montreal and was reported by... [2] Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 400 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 130 (page 2/2)Letter of 7 February 1903 from J.A.J. McKenna, commissary, to J.D. McLean, secretary of Indian Affairs. “ ...by the squatters as claiming 100 acres of land in the Reserve, forty acres of being broken, and as having paid $500 for the land to a previous squatter. I return the file, which I procured from the Department so that I might be in a position to reply to your communication. I possess no papers on the subject. Your obedient servant J.A.J. McKenna Assistant Commissioner.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 401 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 131-132-133: (page 1/3) A report from 13 March 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Samuel Stewart. “DONCASTER RESERVE. By Stature 14 & 15 Vic., Cha. 106, lands amounting in all to 230,000 acres were set apart for Indian Tribes in Lower Canada. Of this amount a reserve containing 18,500 acre was granted to the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Two Mountains in the Township of Wexford (now Doncaster), County of Montcalm, and was confirmed to them by Order in Council of 9th August, 1853. This reserve has never been occupied by the Indians Reports regarding the lands have been made by Mr. Fillion, Bushranger for the Quebec Crown Lands Department, Mr. Bray, Chief Surveyor, Mr. McKenna, Assistant Indian Commission- er, Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Reserves, all of whom visited the reserve and agree in saying that it as well as the surround- ing Townships consist of steep, rocky hills, with practically no plains between them. The soil, it is further stated, is without exception a sandy loam of medium quality, and no one but those who are willing to work very hard and live very frugally can possibly make a living in this rough, sandy district. The value of the land is given as from 30 to 33 cents per acre. The Reserve when set apart contained a considerable quantity of good merchantable timber. In 1869 a license to cut the same was granted to Messrs. Cushing Bros., of Repentigny who paid a bonus of $350.00 in addition to ground rent and tim- ber dues for the privilege, but they allowed the license to lapse in 1872 owing to the difficulty of getting the logs down the streams. A license to cut the spruce and cedar timber was granted to the Charlemagne and Lac Onareau Lumber Co. In 1886 on payment of Two hundred dollars bonus in addition to ground rent and timber dues. This license is still in force. The first intimation received by the Department re- arding ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 402 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 131-132-133: (Page 2/3) A report from 13 March 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Samuel Stewart. “... regarding the squatters was from the Crown Lands Departments, Quebec, in November 1881, and that Department offered to send a competent Bushranger to investigate and report if desired. In reply the Department asked that this be done, and that all squatters on the reserve be notified to leave at once. In com- pliance with this request, Mr. A. B. Fillion was sent to the re- serve and his report of 15th December, 1881, states the he found fifteen families occupying lands belonging to the Indians, and that he had served them with notice to leave. Mr. Fillion valued the improvements owned by the settlers at $1635.00. The notice did not have the desired effect, as sever- al of those, who are now on the reserve, are evidently, judging by the names, of the same families, who were there in 1881, while others claim to have purchased from the persons mentioned by Mr. Filion. The settlers were also notified to leave by Mr. Ding- man, Inspector of Agencies, in August, 1893. Mr. McKenna visited the reserve in May, 1902, and re- ported sixteen persons as holding lands on the reserve of from 100 to 450 acres in extent. The values of the improvements as given to Mr. McKenna by the settlers themselves totalled $17,800.00. As early as September, 1873, the Crown Lands Department, Quebec, proposed that, as the Doncaster Reserve was not occupied by Indians, or likely to be so, and as it was important, in view of the settlement in this Township, that the block of land should be offered for sale to actual settlers, (blank space ) it be transferred to the Government of the Province of Quebec in exchange for an equal area of land in another locality, better suited to the wants of the indians, or, in case such an exchange could not be made, that the land in question be offered for sale by the De- partment. In accordance with the proposition, Mr. De Boucher- ville, the Lands Sales Clerk, was sent to Caughnawaga, to en- deavour to obtain a surrender from the Indians but could not get...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 403 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 131-132-133: (Page 3/3) A report from 13 March 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Samuel Stewart. “... get their consent and the matter was allowed to drop for the time being. In April last the Crown Lands Department again offered, in the event of the Indians surrendering the reserve, to set aside another tract of land of the same extent in exchange for the same. Very strong representations have from time to time been made to this Department by the Crown Lands Departments, by the settlers themselves, by the adjoining Municipality and by Members of Parliament, that the reserve should be opened for sale. The difficulty in the way of this action has been, however, that this Department, after repeated attempts, as failed to obtain a surrender of the reserve from the Indians. The efforts of this direction may be enumerated:- In August, 1874 by Mr. De Boucherville, Lands Sales Clerk, May 1893, “ Mr. Dingman, Inspector of Agencies, May 1894, “ Mr. McKenna, Secretary to Deputy Minister, May 1901, “ Mr. Bray, Chief Surveyor, May 1902, “ Mr. McKenna, Assistant Indian Commissioner, It may be mentioned that the settlers have all along admitted they were aware, when they took up holding, that the lands were included in an Indian Reserve, but further state that they were given to understand, they would not be interfered with. The Indians have demanded, that they be put in posses- sion of the reserve, and also, that the settlers be made to pay a rental for the lands occupied by them. x S. Stewart Assistant Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 404 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 134-138 (page 1/5) Memorandum report, here from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart. “Ottawa, 3rd April, 1903. Memorandum:- The Superintendent General. The Doncaster Reserve, situated in the County of Montcalm, containing 18,000 acres, was set apart by Statute 14 and 15 Voc., Ch. 106, for the benefit of the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and Two Mountains. The Reserve has never been occupied by the Indians, and in October, 1873, and again in May, 1902, the Crown Lands Department, Quebec, proposed, in view of the progress of settlement, that the Reserve be transferred to the Province in exchange for an equal tract of land in another locality, or that, in case such an exchange could not be made, the land in ques- tion be offered for sale by the Department. The matter was referred to the Indians, and they were asked to surrender the Reserve in order that it might be sold for their benefit. It was pointed out to them that the advance of settlement in that part of the country where the reserve is situated and its distance from the residence of any officer of the Department made it difficult to protect the land from being squatted upon or the timber pillaged. The Indians, however, refused t surrender the Reserve: and, although the matter has been submitted to them on five different occasions, it has always been with the same result. The Agent who visited the Reserve in 1873 found a number of squatters on the Reserve, and since that date others have also taken up land and built houses thereon. These persons have several times been notified to leave, but action for their ejectment has not been taken owing to representation...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 405 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 134-138 (page 2/5) Memorandum report, here from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart. “...representation that have been made to the Department by the Crown Lands Department, by the authorities of the ad- joining municipality, by Members of Parliament and by the settlers themselves. It was anticipated by the Department, as well as by the settlers and their friends, that the Indians would eventually consent to surrender the Reserve, as the land was reported to be of poor quality and difficult of cultiv- ation. There was little reason, therefore, for thinking that the Indians would desire to settle down on it with the expectation of making a living by farming. The Indians have now, however, signified their intention of at once occupying the Reserve and have demand- ed that the trespassers be removed without delay, but be- fore this action can be taken the claim of the squatters for compensation for their improvements requires to be dealt with. These squatters state that they took up their holding in good faith, and with the conviction that the Reserve would be opened for sale. The fact that he De- partment has to a certain extant acquiesced in the trespass is also given as a reason why they should be compensated for their improvements if they are compelled to remove from the Reserve. It is felt that there is considerable force in the argument urged on behalf of the squatters, and that their continued occupation, most of them for periods of from twenty-five to forty years, together with the Department’s inaction, gives them a claim which cannot well be overlook- ed. The lands trespassed upon amount to 2,800 acres, and the improvements on the holdings given by the squat- ters themselves total some $17,800.00. In dealing with this matter it should, however, be...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 406 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 134-138 (page 3/5) Memorandum report, here from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart. “...be borne in mind that the squatters have had the free use of the land all these years and that they, living on an In- dian Reserve, have not been required to pay taxes. In addition, they have had the benefit, of which it is stated they have taken full advantage, of the timber on the Reser- ve outside of the spruce and cedar, which alone is covered by license. In the event of its being decided to pay for the improvements, it will be necessary to have the money pro- vided by a vote of Parliament. The Oka Indians have no funds and the funds of the Caughnawaga Band are not suffi- cient to bear the charge of paying the amount required. The claims of the Indians cannot, it is thought, be over- looked that the failure of the Department to protect the Reserve from intrusion puts the burden of compensation on its shoulders. There is no doubt but that the longer the settle- ment of this matter is delayed the more difficult will it be to come to a satisfactory arrangement. Some of the Caughnawaga Indians have already been restrained with dif- ficulty from taking possession of house owned by the squatters; and the Oka Indians, who feel that they have been unjustly deprived of the lands at the Lake of Two Mountains, will make the most of any delay in putting them in possession of the Reserve at Doncaster. Roads Through The Reserve:- The Department of Agriculture and Colonisation, Quebec, and the Members of Parliament for the Counties of Montcalm and Terrebonne have pointed out that no roads have been opened up through the Doncaster Reserve. In conse- quence, they state, the settlers in the surrounding town- ships ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 407 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 134-138 (page 4/5) Memorandum report, here from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart. “... townships are seriously inconvenienced, as they are obliged to ride from 10 to 15 miles in order to reach a railway station with the products of their farms. Messrs. Prefontaine and Dugas have asked that the Department come to the relief of the settlers and help the municipalities interested in constructing proper roads through the Reserve and highways leading to it. They ask that a sum of $5,000.00 be allocated and spent under the control of the Department to open said roads. In connection with these applications attention is called to Section 35 of the Indian Act as amended by Section 5 of 50-51 Vic., Ch. 23, which provides that “No por- “ tion of any reserve shall be taken for the purposes of “ any railway, road or public work without the consent of “ the Governor in Council, and if any railway, road or pub- “ lic work passes through or causes injury to any reserve “ belonging to or in possession of any band of Indians, or “ if any act occasioning damage to any reserve is done un- “ der the authority of an Act of Parliament, or of the Leg- “ islature of any Province, compensation shall be made to “ them therefor in the same manner as is provided with res- “ pect to the lands or rights of other persons.” Under Section 38 as repealed y Section 3 of 61 Vic., Chp. 24m no reserve or portion of a reserve shall be sold, alienated or leased until the same has been released or surrendered to the Crown. It is doubtful whether the Indians would consent at present to surrender any portion of the Reserve. If the Indians were residing on the Reserve they could be compelled under Section 33 as repealed by Section 1, Ch. 33, Vic. 61, and Section 34 to make reads and keep them in order through the Reserve. Under the circumstances the only way in which the whishes of the Department of Colonisation and of the Members For...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 408 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 134-138 (page 5/5) Memorandum report, here from 3 April 1903 about the historical and legal situation of Doncaster written from the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs James A. Smart. “... for the Counties of Montcalm and Terrebonne can be met would be apparently be by this Department’s obtaining a grant from Parliament for the purpose and having the roads made for the improvement of the Reserve and for the benefit of the Indians. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 409 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters About pages 139 to 143: If we go back to the report exposed on page 129 in the letter of 7 February 1903 in which J.A.J. McKenna, commissary, expressed to J.D. McLean, secretary of Indian Affairs where he annexed a Detailed Statement of Valuations of improvements of squatters of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, P.Q from the Chief Surveyor, Samuel Bray, from 22nd April, 1903, which accompanied his report of the 12th May last in which the statement brought informations: “which I obtained from the squatters when I met them recently at Ste. Lucie. I would also refer you to the statement itself in which you will find it clearly set forth in each case but one that the stated value of improvements is the value fixed by each squatter himself. The exception is the case of Viau (numbered 16) who lives in Montreal and was reported by the squatters as claiming 100 acres of land in the Reserve, forty acres of being broken, and as having paid $500 for the land to a previous squatter. I return the file, which I procured from the Department so that I might be in a position to reply to your communication. I possess no papers on the subject.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 410 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 139-143 Ottawa, 22nd April, 1903 Detailed Statement Detailed Valuations of improvements of squatters of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, P.Q. 1. Israel Thouin Lives at the Northwest angle of the reserve. The boundary line is here indefinite. It is quite probable that all the buildings and a great portion of the clearing are not on the re- serve. Log house on stone foundation, clapboarded in front and one side, plastered and well finished, 31 ½ X 29 ½; driving shed 41 X 25. The house and shed together $1000. Barn 65 X 42 very good 400. Butter factory building, 30 X 22 100. 62 acres cleared and well fenced 930. Orchard 75. Clearing on Range 5 100. Allowed for moving butter making machinery 150. Allowed for water conduit and special fencing 245. $3,000 This is the amount Mr. Israel Thouin gave Mr. McKenna, and appears to be a very fair valuation. 2. Isidore Legault This claim is now occupied by Ex-Councillor Frank Tirez from Caughnawaga. The owner was absent. He has returned, Tirez refused to let him have the building.” . Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 411 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 139-143 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 412 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 139-143 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 413 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 139-143 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 414 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 139-143 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 415 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 139-143 The last page of the detailed Statement of Valuations of improvements of squatters of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, P.Q from the Chief Surveyor, Samuel Bray, from 22nd April, 1903. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 416 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 144-Valuation of Improvements of squatters on the Doncaster Indian Reserve. P.Q. from 22 April 1903 by Surveyor in Chief Samuel Bray. Below the note mentions: “7 clearing with house barns on them 2 clearings with abandoned houses and barns 1 clearing with a good barn on it 5 clearings with no structure on them S.B. “ Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 417 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 145- Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor, to Superintendent General, Ottawa, 22 April 1903. “Ottawa, 22nd April, 1903 The Deputy Supt. General, -- I beg to report that I have returned from the Doncaster Indian Reserve, where in accordance with your instructions I made the valuations of the different squat- ters’ improvements on the reserve. I beg to hand you herewith a statement of the same showing the total valuation to be $11, 325. (The total valuation as given by the squatters to Mr. McKenna amounted to $17,800) together with a detailed statement. I may say that the valuations are fair, es- pecially when the fact is taken into consideration that the occupants have held the land for many years without paying rent. The different squatters with probably not one ex- ception will accept the amounts of my valuation, if offered to them. I have, however, to draw your attention to the fact that the West boundary of the Reserve is very in- definite, and in fact its location on the ground is not known within any reasonable distance. It is, therefore, quite possible that when this line is surveyed all the im- provements of Israel Thouin, No. 1 on the list, except some clearing may be found to be actually outside of the reserve. This will reduce the statement considerably. The said survey, I beg to submit, should be made as soon as anything definite has been decided upon with regard to the action to be taken in connection with the reserve. Samuel Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 418 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 146 On 23 April 1903, Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs explaining to Secretary McLean to make sure the Quebec Government stays on its position: “If you have not done so will you please write the Quebec Government ascertaining their positions as to granting land to the Indians in case they decide to relinquish their right to the Doncaster Reserve.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 419 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 147- Doc 340, 757, Letter 23 April 1903 from Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. Maclean to E.P Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries. “Ottawa, 23rd April, 1903. Sir,- With further reference to your letter in reply to mine of the 20th April, 1902, I have to request that you will be good enough to state whether you are now in a position to advise this Department as to the tract of land your Department would be prepared to exchange for the Indian Reserve in the Township of Doncaster, in the County of Montcalm , in case the Indians decide to relinquish their right to the Doncaster Reserve. Your obedient servant, J.D. MacLean, Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 420 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 148 Doc 259, 255 extract original on 259,114, translation of an Extract of a letter on 25 April 1903 from Jean Baptiste Daillebout to J. Blain, Indian Agent concerning the Resolution 7 in order to “appoint one or two councillors to go the Doncaster reserve to drive off the trespassers with an allowance of $25 for travelling expenses”, entitled: Meeting of the Caughnawaga Council held 25th April, 1903. Note below: “Original receipt under cover of letter from Agent J. Blain dated 28 April 1908.” “Meeting of the Caughnawaga Council held 25th April, 1903 X X Resolution 7. On motion of Councillor Peter Day, seconded by Councillor Chas. William it was unanim- ously resolved to ask the Dept. to be kind to ap- point one or two councillors to go the Don- caster reserve to drive off the trespassers with an al- lowance of $25 for travelling expenses inasmuch as the tribe needs to look after its rights and its property. X X X His J. Bte. X Daillebout Mark” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 421 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 149, from an Extract from Memorandum- Original on File No. 162,095: When the delegation chosen to observe the fact of the squatters came back, they came to an unanimous decision: “Ottawa, 12th June, 1903 On June 11th a deputation of the Caughnawaga Indians called at the Department and stated that they had visited the Doncaster Reserve and after laying the matter before the band the Indians had decided that they would not surrender the Reserve and asked the Government to have the squatters removed signed F.P (Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs).” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 422 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 150 Map of the Province of Quebec, indicating frontiers; North, North-West, North-East as recognized by the Statutes of Canada, 61 Victoria, cap. 3. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 423 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 151 Map of the Province of Quebec, indicating frontiers; North, North-West, North-East as recognized by the Statutes of Canada, 61 Victoria, cap. 3. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 424 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 152 Map of the River Manouan Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 425 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 153 Map of the River Manouan Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 426 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 154 Letter from Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries on 4 August 1903, to Secretary of Indian Affairs J.D. Maclean exposing potential other lands that the Iroquois could use other than Doncaster, on the maps observed on pages 150-153, in the area of the Manouan River. “Sales Branch Quebec, 4th August 1903 J.D. McLean, Esqur. Secretary of Dept. of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. Sir, Reverting to your letters of the 29th April 1902 & 23rd April last, I have the honor to forward you a blue print and a map of the province of Quebec, indication in red certain tracts of disposal lands out of which a simi- lar area to that of the actual Indian Reserve in Doncaster might be selected in exchange thereof. After study and con- sideration of the question, please inform us where you intend locating this new Reserve. The blocks thus shown are the nearest at hand which are available at present. I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant E.E. Tache Deputy Minister” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 427 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 155 Doc 34070 /2TY, Correspondence from Frank Pedley, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs to Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries, of 21 November 1903, exposing that the “Western boundaries of the Indian Reserve which comprise the Southeast quarter of the township of Doncaster require to be retraced and permanently established on the ground.” “Sir,- The western boundary of the Indian Reserve which comprise the southeast quarter of the township of Doncaster, Que., require to be retraced and permanently es- tablished on the ground. It would appear that this tract of land in- cludes Lots 31 to 40, in ranges 1-2-3-4-5 and 6, and should be bounded on the west by the Centre Line of the township. On the ground, however, in one or more of the said conces- sions, Lot 30 has been laid out to the east of the Centre Line, and sold by your Department, and is now occupied by the purchasers. It would, therefore, appear that that the Centre Line is not actually the west boundary of the reserve. It is thought that this line falls under the operation of Article 4156 of the Revised Statutes of Quebec and the instructions for the same will require to be issued by the Commissioner of your Department. I shall fell ob- liged of you will be good enough to have prepared as soon as possible, and forward to me the said instructions, which will be given to the Surveyor who may be appointed. It is presumed that your Department will have no objection to the appointment of any Surveyor who has been duly authorized for the Province of Quebec. The expense of the survey will of course be borne by this Department. Your obedient servant. x L.D. F. Pedley Deputy Sup. General of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 428 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 156 On 20 November 1903, Chief Surveyor S. Bray putting the emphasis on the importance to appoint a surveyor as soon as possible for the west boundary of the Doncaster Reserve. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 429 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 157 On 25 Novembre 1903, Frank Pedley expose to the Surveyor in Chief Bray that Mr F.C. Laberge was appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve. (confirmed by MacLean on page 158, and supported by Pedley on page 159) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 430 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 160 Letter from Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries on 18 December 1903, to Frank Pedley, Esq. Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing he took knowledge of the last correspondence. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 431 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 161 Letter from Samuel Stewart Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs (who became Keeper of the records in 1905) to Deputy Minister E.E. (or E.P.) Tache, Assistant Commissioner of the Department Lands, Mines and Fisheries exposing reception confirmed by a telegram on 11 January 1904 on page 163 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 432 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 162 Telegram by E.E. Tache to Frank Pedley from 15 June 1904 exposing that the Department of Indian Affairs will send a surveyor on the ground to inspect. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 433 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 164 Copy-Extract of the original: No. 162095, a Memorandum by J.D. MacLean of 10 December 1903 exposing J.W. Jocks official interpreter of the Caughnawaga Band and Chief Councillor, exposed that regulations must be made also for Indians about land management’s and rules for hunting and wood cutting and mentioning that regulations must be made for acres entitled to each Indians and that some Indians might take exceeding lots. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 434 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 165, Extract 2376608, doc 34070. On 18 January 1904, Sam Bray the Surveyor exposes that the fact that some Indians might take exceeding lots was exposed which he described as: “The exact condition of this matter was exposed to the Indians and they are perfectly satisfied with what is being done. They express the hope that the survey necessary to settle the matter may not be delayed.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 435 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 166 On 25 January 1904 Surveyor Bray exposes to the Deputy Superintendent General of the Department of Indian Affairs that: “Referring to the Secretary’s memorandum of the 10th inst., hereunder, I beg to draw your attention to the fact that the Doncaster Indian Reserve has never been subdivided. The result is that the few squatters, near its west boundary, have settled on it with practically no lines to guide them as to what projected lots they may be settling on. The Indians of course will do even worse than the Whites, and settle as they have done in Caughnawaga in the most indiscriminate manner which has led to great trouble and expense. I beg to submit for your consideration that an order be issued to the effect that no settlement, of any permanent nature, shall be made by the Indians on the Don- caster Reserve, until the same has been properly surveyed and subdivided. This work, I think, should be undertaken as soon as the west boundaries has been defined, and should be paid for from the funds of the Band. If the land is subdivided late Fifty Acre Lots, the Council of the band could then locate, subject to the approval of the Superintendent General, any lots or half lots to any Indians if may think proper. x S. Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 436 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 167 On 27 January 1904 J.D. MacLean Indian Affairs Secretary exposed to Indian Agent John Blais that: “Sir,- Referring to a subject in connection with the Doncaster Indian Reserve, which was brought to the at- tention of the Secretary of the Department by Messrs, J.B. Daillebout and J.W. Jocks of the Caughnawaga Reserve, I have to request you to be good enough to inform the Indian Council and those two gentlemen in particular that no settlement of any permanent nature is to be made by Indians on the Doncaster Reserve, until the same has been properly surveyed and subdivided. It is intended that this work shall be done when the west boundary has been defined. There appears to me more difficulty, in con- nection with the said west boundary, as the Department has not yet received a necessary communication from the Crown Lands Department of Quebec before a Surveyor can be sent to do the work. It is proposed to subdivide the Reserve into lots of about fifty acres; the council can then locate to any Indians of the Band, subject to the approval of the Superintendent General, any lots of half lots which they may think proper. Your obedient servant J.D. McLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 437 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 168 exposes a map from 25 June 1897, signed by the Department of Mines and Fisheries on 25 May 1906 (Bray) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 438 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 169 exposes a map from 30 January 1904, by J.A. Martin Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 439 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 170 From Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 14 February 1904, all the lands sold from 1866 to 1900, exposing the amount not yet being bought back by the Government, signed by J.A. Martin, Surveyor and co-signed by E.J. Marchand, Land Agent. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 440 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 171- previous translated from the original 170- From Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 14 February 1904, all the lands sold from 1866 to 1900, exposing the amount not yet being bought back by the Government, signed by J.A. Martin, Surveyor and co-signed by E.J. Marchand, Land Agent. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 441 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 174-175 Translation of the originals 172-173 in French-Surveyor J.A. Martin exposes the complexities of certain land parts on the limits of certain lands exposing the curvy waves created by the land measurements, from 8 March 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 442 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 174-175 Translation of the originals 172-173 in French-Surveyor J.A. Martin exposes the complexities of certain land parts on the limits of certain lands exposing the curvy waves created by the land measurements, , from 8 March 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 443 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 176 Unidentified correspondence. Mr Leonard might have been Joseph Edouard Emile Leonard, then Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, Montreal District. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 444 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 177 E.E. TACHÉ, Deputy minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, Quebec, on 22 April 1904, exposing he annexed the report of Surveyor J.A. Martin of the South West boundaries, but precisions may come on request after the snow, occasioning distortions, melts in spring also adding that Bray the Government Surveyor may also be appointed. On page 178 the appointed Secretary of Indian Affairs expose that a surveyor of their Department will accompany Mr Martin. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 445 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 179 J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs to G.A. Varin, Minister of Cadastre, Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, Quebec, on 29 April 1904, asking for the Plan of Doncaster exposing the measurements of 3 “lots in each of the concession bordering the Southwest boundary of the Indian Reserve in the said Township. These lots should apparently be No. 28, 29 and 30 in Range 1 to 6 inclusive.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 446 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 180, as page 176 Unidentified correspondance. Mr Leonard might have been Joseph Edouard Emile Leonard, then Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, Montreal District. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 447 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 181-183 doc 34070 /02 Frank Pedley, superintendant general of Indian Affairs to Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 7 mai 1904. “ Sir,- I have to request you to proceed on Monday next to the Doncaster Indian Reserve, Que., to pay to cer- tain persons, squatters on the Doncaster Indian Reserve, the cheques which will be handed to you by the Accountant. You will please have these persons fill out Agreements and Receipts according to the draft hereunder, except in those cases in which the squatters are paid in full for their improvements. In these cases you will please prepare a special document, and have it duly sworn to by the squatter, before a Notary Public or a Magistrate. If Mr. Martin, the Surveyor, should arrive at the Reserve while you are there, you will please con- tinue with him and render him all the assistance, in con- nection with the western boundary of the reserve, that the occasion may require. You should also make inquiries as to good location for the road on which it is proposed to expend the sum voted during the last Session of Parliament. Your obedient servant, (Signed) F. Pedley Deputy Superintendant of Indian Affairs.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 448 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 181-183 doc 34070 /02, 7 mai 1904.Declaration signed by squatter George Cloutier and present witnesses. “Whereas the improvements on the land oc- cupied by George Cloutier in the Don- caster Indian Reserve, Que., have been valued in the sum of eighteen hundred and thirty dollars and the said George Cloutier is satis- fied with and accepts the said valuation, the said George Cloutier for the sum of six hundred dollars, the receipt of which, from the Department of Indian Affairs, is hereby by him acknowledged and for the further sum of twelve hundred and thirty dollars to be paid as hereinafter provided, the said George Cloutier agrees to vacate on or before the 15th June next, and forever to leave the said Indian Reserve taking with him only his live stock and movables, and will in no way injure or damage any building or im- provements of any kind, but will leave them in the condition they are now in. The further sum of twelve hundred and thirty dollars above mentioned is to be paid on the receipt, by the Department of Indian Affairs at Ottawa, of a sworn declaration by the said George Cloutier stating that he has actually vacated and left the said Re- serve, and never intends to return and accepts the said sum in full of all claims of any nature whatever against the said Department of Indian Affairs and the said Reserve, and it is further understood by the said George Cloutier that if he does not vacate the said reserve on or before the 15th June next that the department of Indian Affairs may forthwith have him ejected by the usual process of law ...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 449 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 181-183 doc 34070 /02 7 mai 1904.Declaration signed by squatter George Cloutier and present witnesses. “...law and that the said George Cloutier will be liable for all costs in connection therewith. Signed by the said George Cloutier in the presence of. George Cloutier Witnesses:- S. Bray Zotique Cardin ptre Léopold André Dated at Ste. Lucie this 9th May 1904” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 450 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 184-185-186 9 mai 1904.Declaration signed by squatter Isidore Legault and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 451 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 184-185-186 9 mai 1904.Declaration signed by squatter Isidore Legault and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) “Je soussigné, par les présentes autorise le Révérend Monsieur Zotique Cardin, curé de Ste Lucie, à agir en mon nom et comme mon représentant et procurateur dans le règlement de mes affaires concernant mes terrains à Ste Lucie. Je l’autorise particulièrement à retirer 185 45 l’argent qui me revient sur ces dits terrains, à en signer les reçus et à faire toutes les réclamations nécessaires ou utiles pour obtenir une augmentation conforme à la valeur réelle de mes propriétés. Fait à L’Annonciation, P.Q. Ce 3 novembre 1903 Isidore Legault Témoin – Dom André” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 452 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters As the previous one, other declarations of squatters: Pages 187-188 Declaration signed by squatter Isaiah Morin and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) 9 Mai 1904 Pages 189-190 Declaration signed by squatter Napoleon Constantineau and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) 9 Mai 1904 Pages 191-192 Declaration signed by squatter Joseph Miron and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) 9 Mai 1904 Pages 193 Declaration signed by Henry Viger and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) 9 Mai 1904 Pages 194 Declaration signed by Remi Collin and present witnesses. (as the previous declaration.) 9 Mai 1904 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 453 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 195-96 (translation page 196)Letter from J. Martin Crown Surveyor from Agency of the Department of Lands and Forests and Fisheries of Quebec to H. Frank Pedley the Department Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, from 9 May 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 454 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 197-198 Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief of the Department of Indian Affairs, to Superintendant General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 13 May 1904. “No. 34070/2 Memo. Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 13th May 1904. The Deputy Supt. General, - I beg to report that I have visited the Don- caster Indian Reserve, Que., and have paid to the several parties entitled thereto the cheques in part payment for the squatters’ improvements on the said Reserve, namely, George Cloutier, Isidore Legault, Napoleon Constantineau, Isaiah Miron and Joseph Miron. Remi Collins and Henry Viger who have clear- ings only on the Reserve were paid in full. I beg to sub- mit herewith the different acknowledgements taken from all these persons. There was some difficulty at first, especi- ally with one of the individuals, to induce them to take, as arranged, a part payment and the balance when they have removed, provided they go before the 15th June next. With the valuable assistance of Father Zotique Cardin, the Parish Priest, all the difficulties were removed and the business satisfactorily completed. I have no doubt that these persons will all remove from the Reserve within the specified time, and I promised them that, in accordance with the engagements taken from them, the Department would, on the receipt of each declaration, send at once the cheque to which the person would be entitled. At the request of Father Cardin, I left a draft showing the declaration re- quired. Three cheques were left unpaid, namely:- --- Viau $100. This person has sometime ago left for Montreal: no one knew of his whereabouts, and it..” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 455 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 197-198 Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief of the du Department of Indian Affairs, to Superintendant General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 13 May 1904. “2 it would appear that he has practically abandoned his im- provements. Thomas Thouin $55. This person is dead. The cheque will require to be made out to his widow. I agreed to have this sent to the care of Father Carvin who will have the receipt and declaration executed by the widow. Pierre Maille $100 [stripped] $50. A bush fire has de- stroyed the log house since the valuation was made. I de- cided to submit the matter to you before paying this claim, in whole or in part. [in the margin] [Pay?] = $50[?] CK 724 LVK As arranged previous to my departure for the Doncaster Reserve, the payments to be made to the squatters for improvements along the Southwest boundary of the Re- serve are to be delayed until it is ascertained to what ex- tent these improvements may be affected by the final lo- cation of the said boundary. I agreed that Henry Viger should be paid $6. for ploughing done by him on the Reserve this spring, and George Cloutier $16. for a similar claim. I beg to recom- mend that cheques be sent to them in payment of these claims. [in the margin] CK 725 Appd LVK 726 Up to Wednesday afternoon when I left St. Lucie, Mr. Martin, P.L.S., had not arrived. S. Bray Chief Surveyor.” [in the margin p. 1] [Recd?] cheques 702 = $55 x 706 = 100 cancelled 709 = 100 cancelled [??] [in the margin p. 1] [Stamp p.2] Cheque No. 774-776 [$1286..]? Sent 16 [th May?] 1904 [Stamp p.2] Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 456 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 199-200 Letter from J.D McLean to J. Martin Crown Surveyor from Agency of the Department of Lands and Forests and Fisheries of Quebec to J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs exposing surveying problems with certain boundaries, from 16 May 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 457 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 201 J.D. McClean, Secretary of Indian Affairs to, Zotique Cardin, Priest of Ste Lucie, Ottawa, 16 May 1904. “34070/2Ty Rev. Father Zotique Cardin, St. Lucie, Que. Ottawa, 16th May, 1904. With Cheques. Rev. Sir,- Referring to the recent visit of Mr. S. Bray, of this Department, to the Doncaster Indian Reserve, and to his interview with you, I beg to enclose herewith the fol- lowing cheques in payment for squatters’ improvements on the said Reserve, namely, Mrs. Thomas Thouin $55. and Pierre Maille . $50. I shall feel obliged if you will be good enough to hand those two cheques to the persons mentioned, and have the enclosed declarations properly executed. They should be sworn to before the “Maire”, and witnessed by yourself and another person. Enclosed also is a cheque for $16. in favour of George Cloutier being payment in full for plough- ing done by him this Spring on the Reserve, and another cheque , in favour of Henry Viger, for $6., in payment of a similar claim. I shall feel obliged if you will be good enough to hand these cheques to the respective persons. Your obedient servant, J.D.McLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 458 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Pages 202 Declaration signed by the widow of squatter Thomas Thouin, Ste Lucie, 21 May 1904, making oath that they will leave the Reserve and not come back. “Whereas the improvements on the land oc- cupied by Mrs. Thomas Thouin in the Doncaster Indian Re- serve, Que., have been valued in the sum of Fifty-five Dollars, and the said Mrs. Thomas Thouin is satisfied and accept the said valuation, and the said Mrs. Thomas Thouin has been paid the said sum of Fifty-five Dollars in full for all claims against the Department of Indian Affairs and the said Doncaster Indian Reserve, the receipt of which is hereby by her acknowledged, the said Mrs. Thomas Thouin makes oath and says that she has vacated the said Indian Reserve, and doth hereby promise and swear that she will never again, either directly or indirectly, trespass in any manner whatsoever on the said Reserve. Dame Thomas x Thouin Sworn before me this 21st of May, 1904, at St.Lucie, Que. Ovide Beauchamp Maire Witnesses:- x Roch Thouin x Zotique Cardin ptre. " Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 459 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters The same Declaration of making oath that squatters will leave the Reserve and not come back happened for: Pages 203 Declaration signed by squatter Pierre Maillé, Ste Lucie, 21 May 1904, making oath that they will leave the Reserve and not come back. For some the declaration was more likely expressed as a clemency in order to receive the last funds due to them for their compensation of the balance due, respectfully, as exposed here: Pages 204 Declaration signed by squatter Joseph Miron, Ste Lucie, 23 May 1904, making oath that they will leave the Reserve and not come back. “Je, Joseph Miron, par le présent jure avoir évacué abandonné la Réserve Indienne du Canton de Doncaster n’ayant pris avec moi que mes animaux et mes biens meubles, laissant tout le reste tel qu’il était quand en ma possession; de plus je promets et jure n’avoir plus et ne plus vouloir avoir chose quelconque au sujet de la dite “Réserve”, soit directement soit indirectement, après le règlement de la présente affaire. Donc, tel que convenu, je suis en mesure de demander respectueusement au Département des affaires indiennes, que l’on veuille bien m’adresser la balance due à moi pour les améliorations et travaux que j’ai faits comme squatter sur la dite Réserve”. Joseph x Miron Assermenté devant moi à Ste Lucie de Doncaster ce vingtroisième jour de mai 1904 Ovide Beauchamp Maire Témoins: Ecalapha Forget Zotique Cardin ptre” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 460 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters For some the declaration was more likely expressed as a clemency in order to receive the last funds due to them for their compensation of the balance due, respectfully, as exposed here: Pages 205 Declaration signed by squatter Napoleon Constantineau, Ste Lucie, 23 May 1904, making oath that they will leave the Reserve and not come back. Pages 206 Declaration signed by squatter Isidore Legault, Ste Lucie, 17 May 1904, making oath that they will leave the Reserve and not come back. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 461 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 207-208 Priest Zotique Cardin asks the Indian Affairs Surveyor to cover the amounts owed to the last squatters on 13 June 2017. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 462 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 209 J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Secretary send the money in cheques to Priest Zotique Cardin in order for him to deliver the said checks to the squatters in order to conclude the present compensations on 26 May 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 463 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 210 Samuel Bray, Indian Affairs Surveyor, to Superintendent General, Ottawa, 26 May 1904. No. 34070/2Ty Memo. Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 26th May, 1904. The Deputy Supt. General,- The Rev. Father Zotique Cardin of St. Lucie has forwarded herewith three sworn declarations from squat- ters on the Doncaster Indian Reserve to the effect that they have vacated the Reserve, and that they are now en- titled to the balance due for them for their squatters’ im- provements on the said Reserve. I beg to recommend that the balances due the respective individuals, Messrs. Isidore Legault, Napoleon Constantineau and Jos. Miron, be paid them forthwith. Hereunder is a draft of a letter to the Rev. Father Cardin, which is submitted for your consideration and approval. x S. Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 464 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 211-212 extract of the Book of Reference of a part of the District of Doncaster, Terrebonne County exposing the lots-Livre de Renvois official annexed in the next letter of 29 May 1904 from the Land Branch’s Secretary to J.D. McLean, Indian Affairs Secretary. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 465 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Extract from Eric Pouliot’s book online at Library and Archives Canada available online entitled: 50 Ste Lucie, Doncaster: Tioweró:ton archives 1851-1921 50 Ste Lucie, Doncaster: Tioweró:ton archives 1851-1921 from Eric Pouliot’s book online at Library and Archives Canada available online: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/eric_pouliot- thisdale/ste_lucie/Ste_Lucie_Doncaster_Tioweroton_archives_1851_to_1921.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 466 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 213 Letter from the Secretary of Cadasters of Lands Branch, Arthur Valin to J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Secretary on 28 May 1904 concerning lots 28, 29 and 30 in Ranges 1 to 7 inclusive with an extract of the book of reference (As seen on pages 211-212) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 467 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 214 Letter from Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Pedley from 6 June 1904 to Bray the Surveyor in Chief, to appoint a meeting. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 468 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 215-216 Memo of 10 June 1904 from Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief to the Deputy Superintendent General on the subject of the South western boundary and as to if “Lot 30 should be drawn as the boundary.” N0 34070/ 2Ty. Memo Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 10 June 1904. The Deputy Supt. General,- In accordance with your instructions of the th 6 instant, I beg to report that I had interview with Mr. E.E. Tache, Deputy Minister of Lands, Mines & Fisheries, at which were present Mr. Gauvin, Superintendent of Surveys, and his assistant Mr. Girouard, on the subject of the Southwestern boundary of the Doncaster Reserve. The second report from Mr. Surveyor Martin, employed by the Quebec Government, had just been received. He reports to the effect that he has been unable to find sufficient indications on the ground of what is known as the Central Line to be able to retrace it, and in fact this proceeding is practically impossible. No, therefore, recom- mended that a new or arbitrary line should be run. The question then arose as to whether the said Central Line was over intended to the boundary of the reserve. No records whatever could be found on this point. On the other hand the field notes showed that Lot 30 had been surveyed in every case as Crown Lands. It is also to be noted that the plan of the Reserve in the Depart- ment shows that the East boundary of Lot 30 is the boundary of the Reserve. A discussion was then had as to whether the said last East boundary of Lot 30 should be drawn as the boundary of the Reserve. In reply to Mr. Tache, I stated that, in view of the foregoing, if his Department issued instructions to the effect that the East boundary of Lot 30 in each range should be surveyed as the true and legal boundary of the Reserve, I felt assured that the Department of Indian Affairs would raise no objections.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 469 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 215-216 Memo of 10 June 1904 from Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief to the Deputy Superintendent General on the subject of the South western boundary and as to if “Lot 30 should be drawn as the boundary.” “ page 2 I beg to submit this decision for your con- sideration and approval, as it appears to be the most sensible, practicable, just and satisfactory decision for all parties interested that can be arrived at, and it is to be noted that the Reserve will be left of the full size it was intended to be when first set apart. x S. Bray, Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 470 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 217 (transcribed and translated on page 219) Declaration of Isaï Miron, squatter, Ste Lucie, 9 June 1904. "Je, Isaï Miron, par le présent jure avoir évacué, abandonné la Réserve Indienne du Canton de Doncaster, n’ayant pris avec moi que mes animaux et mes biens meubles, lais- sant tout le reste tel qu’il était quand en ma possession; de plus je promets et jure n’avoir plus et ne plus vouloir avoir chose quelconque au sujet de la dite “Réserve”, soit directement soit indirectement, après le règlement de la présente affaire. Donc, tel que convenu, je suis en demeure de demander respectueusement au Département des affaires indiennes, que l’on veuille bien m’adresser la balance due à moi pour les améliorations et travaux que j’ai faits comme “squatter” sur la dite “Réserve”. Isaï Miron Assermenté devant moi à Ste Lucie de Doncaster ce neuvième jour de juin 1904 Ovide Beauchamp Maire Témoins: x Léopold André x Zotique Cardin ptre" Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 471 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 217 Declaration of Isaï Miron, (same for George Cloutier) squatter, Ste Lucie, 9 June 1904. Isaï Miron "Je, George Cloutier, par le présent jure avoir évacué, abandonné la Réserve Indienne du Canton de Doncaster, n’ayant pris avec moi que mes animaux et mes biens meubles, lais- sant tout le reste tel qu’il était quand en ma possession; de plus je promets et jure n’avoir plus et ne plus vouloir avoir chose quelconque au sujet de la dite “Réserve”, soit directement soit indirectement, après le règlement de la présente affaire. Donc, tel que convenu, je suis en demeure de demander respectueusement au Département des affaires indiennes, que l’on veuille bien m’adresser la balance due à moi pour les améliorations et travaux que j’ai faits comme “squatter” sur la dite “Réserve”. Isaï Miron Assermenté devant moi à Ste Lucie de Doncaster ce 7th & 9th neuvième jour de juin 1904 Ovide Beauchamp Maire Témoins: x Léopold André x Zotique Cardin ptre" Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 472 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 218 Declaration of George Cloutier, squatter, Ste Lucie, 7 June 1904. "Je, George Cloutier, par le présent jure avoir évacué, abandonné la Réserve Indienne du Canton de Doncaster, n’ayant pris avec moi que mes animaux et mes biens meubles, laissant tout le reste tel qu’il était quand en ma possession; de plus je promets et jure n’avoir plus et ne plus vouloir avoir chose quelconque au sujet de la dite “Réserve”, soit directement soit indi- rectement, après le règlement de la présente affaire. Donc, tel que convenu, je suis en demeure de demander respectueusement au Département des affaires indiennes, que l’on veuille bien m’adresser la balance due à moi pour les améliorations et travaux que j’ai faits comme “squatter” sur la dite “Réserve”. George Cloutier Assermenté devant moi à Ste Lucie ce septième jour de juin 1904 Ovide Beauchamp Maire Témoins: Castopha Roy Forget Zotique Cardin ptre" Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 473 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 219-220 Zotique Cardin, Priest of Ste Lucie, to J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs, Sainte-Lucie, 9 June 1904. (Translation pages 221-222) "Sainte Lucie ? juin 1904 A Monsieur J.D. vous me dîtes dans votre lettre du 26 mai McLean, Secrétaire au Département des affaires dernier. Comme vous le voyez je vous adresse indiennes avec la présente [souligné] les reçus [souligné] Mon cher Monsieur, J’ai reçu avec plaisir, pour pour les trois chèques: de messieurs Napoléon mes “squatters”, les chèques envoyés, et pour Constantineau, Joseph Miron et Isidore Legault moi la réponse demandée. Je serai heureux de [plus?] les certificats assermentés de Mess. George Cloutier et Isaï Miron. J’ai l’honneur vous dire que j’avais été mal informé. J’ai vu les d’être Monsieur le Secrétaire Votre tou dévoué squatter eux mêmes et il ne s’agissait que de Zotique Cardin ptre" choses de peu de valeur. Comme Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 474 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 221 Declaration of Isaï Miron, (same for George Cloutier) squatter, Ste Lucie, 9 June 1904. Isaï Miron "I,, George Cloutier, hereby swear that I have left and abandoned the Indian Reserve in Doncaster [?], having taken with me only my animals and my moveable effects, leaving all the rest as they were when in my possession; moreover I promise and swear that I have not and do not wish to have anything else what- ever in connection with the said reserve either directly or indi- rectly after the settlement of the present matter. Therefore, as agreed, I am in a position to ask respectfully that the Dept. of Indian Affairs will be kind enough to send me the balance due me for improvements and work that I have done as a squatter on the said reserve. Isaï Miron George X CLoutier Sworn before me at Ste. Lucie thi 7th & 9th day of June 1904 Ovide Beauchamp Mayor witnesses: x Léopold André x Zotique Cardin ptre" Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 475 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 222-223 Zotique Cardin, Priest of Ste. Lucie, to J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs, Sainte-Lucie, 9 June 1904 (Translation pages 221-222) "Sainte Lucie June 9, 1904 J.D. McLean, Esq., Secretary Dept of I.A. My Dear Sir,- I received with pleasure for my “squatters”, the cheques sent, and I am happy to see that I had been misinformed.. I received the squatters themselves and it was only in regard to matters of small value as you told me in your letter of May 26 last. As you will observe, I sent you herewith the receipt for the three cheques - for messirs Napoleon Constantineau, Joseph Miron and Isidore Legault also sworn certificats from messrs Geo Cloutier and Isai Miron I have, etc., Zotique Cardin, P.C." Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 476 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 224 Minuteries of the Caughnawaga Council 27 May 1904 about boundaries of Sault St. Louis as well as Doncaster. (Note below: “Agent covering letter dated 9th June 1904.”) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 477 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 225 Samuel Bray Surveyor to Superintendent General of Indian Affairs from 15 June 1904. No. 34070/2. Memo. Department of Indian Affairs Ottawa, 15th June, 1904 The Deputy Supt. General,- The documents submitted, hereunder, by the Rev. Father Cardin appear to be in order. I beg to recom- mend that the balances due to George Cloutier and Isiah Miron, on account of their squatters’ improvements on the Doncaster Indian Reserve, be now paid them. I may say that this completes the payment of all the squatters on the said Reserve, except those whose improvements are adjacent to the Southwest boundary of the Reserve, and those of two squatters who cannot be found and who have abandoned their improvements. All the squatters who have been paid have according to their sworn declarations left the Reserve. x S. Bray Chief Surveyor [hand written note on the left side] Immediate CK 791 for $1230.00 CK 792 $115 793 $796 $911 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 478 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 226-227 (page 227 is a copy) Memorandum from Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Mr Scott from 26 May 1904 about sums owed by Isaie Miron to Eusebe Guilbeault, $115.00, suggesting an arrangement. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 479 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 228 Letter of 22 June 1904 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs to reverent Zotique Cardin exposing that in order to get back the due sums, he is asking him to “use your best endeavour to get Mr. Miron to endorse this cheque for $115.00 and then return it to the Department. If Mr. Miron refuses to endorse it, you should return it to the Department.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 480 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 229 In a letter from 20 June 1904, J. Waniente Jocks in Caughnawaga asks J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs if all white intruders received their compensations, putting emphasis on a man owning a butter factory and the hotel keeper. Jocks mentions that they will leave when they will get compensated, and asks when will the Department fulfill this last task in the matter. (answered on page 231) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 481 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 229 In a letter from 20 June 1904, J. Waniente Jocks in Caughnawaga asks J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs if all white intruders received their compensations, putting emphasis on a man owning a butter factory and the hotel keeper. Jocks mentions that they will leave when they will get compensated, and asks when will the Department fulfill this last task in the matter. . (answered on page 231) The butter factory is of course quite potentially Israel Thouin since he is mentioned in this undated document entitled: Statement giving names of squatters on the Doncaster Reserve, the extent of their holdings, and an estimate of improvements. (1) Israel Thouin purchased fifteen years ago from F. Menard and H. Deslauriers, who appeared to have been original squatters, their right to 350 acres on the Reserve for which he paid $1,050.00. He has 120 acres broken, a good house, barns, stables, shed and fences, and a cheese and butter factory. He values his improvements at $3,000.00 which appears to be within the mark. The land was first squatted upon forty years ago. As for the hotel keeper, he is quite potentially (11)Rock Thouin claims 450 acres which he bought 20 years ago from B. Gauthier, L. Pelletier, N. Pelletier and Noe Forget for $200.00, the land having been held for from five to ten years previously. He has 300 acres broken and fenced, a large barn and stable. All the land is cleared and he values his improvement at $4,000.00. He does not live on the reserve. He is a hotel keeper in the village of St Lucie. He is also mentioned in a report from Samuel Bray Surveyor from 22 April 1903: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 482 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 230 Letter of 22 June 1904 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs asking for an update to Samuel Bray, Surveyor, about the instructions of the Southwestern boundary. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 483 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 231 Letter of 22 June 1904 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs answering the letter from 20 June 1904, by J. Waniente Jocks on behalf of the Caughnawaga Council. (From doc 34070 /2) “Ottawa, 24th June, 1904. Sir,- In reply to your letter of the 20th instant, I beg to inform you that those squatters whose improvements are not adjacent to the Southwestern boundary of the Don- caster Indian Reserve have been paid for, and they have removed from the Reserve. Those squatters whose improvements are ad- jacent to the said boundary have not been paid, neither can they be paid until the said boundary has been defined on the ground. The instructions for the survey of this boundary have, by law, to be issued by the Crown Lands De- partment of Quebec. There appears to be some difficulty, as, notwithstanding repeated requests from the Department, the instructions have not yet been sent. With reference to locating Indians of Caugh- nawaga or Oka on the Reserve, I have to say that Mr. Agent Blain was requested on the 27th January last to inform the Indian Council that no settlement of any permanent nature is to be made by Indians on the Doncaster Reserve, un- til the same has been properly surveyed and subdivided. Your obedient Servant, J.D. McLean Secretary J.W. Jocks, Esq., Care of J. Blain, Esq., Indian Agent, 161 Montana street, Montreal, Que.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 484 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 232 Letter of 29 June 1904 from J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs to Mr F.C. Laberge was appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve. (From doc 34070 /2) “Ottawa, 29 June, 1904. Sir,- The Southwest boundary of the Indian Reserve, which is situated in the Southeast or Easterly quarter of the Township of Doncaster, que., requires to be retraced and permanently established on the ground. As this line falls under the question of Article 4156 of the Revised Statutes of Quebec, the instructions for the survey of the line require to be issued by the Com- missioner of Crown Lands, Que. The Commissioner has informed this Depart-ment that he forwarded the said instructions to you on the 15th instant in accordance with the request of the Department. I have to say that it is very desirable that the line should be defined at once; I have to request you to be good enough to inform ,e at what date you will be able to commence work. You are probably aware that the cost of the survey will be paid by this Department. It is of course de- sirable that you should do carefull and correct work; at the same time it is expected that you will be reasonable econo- mical, and use every means to complete the work at as early a date as possible. I have to request you to plant substantial posts of cedar properly marked to indicate your line or lines, and in every case where they mark the boundary of the Reserve, they should be wall mounded with earth and stones. Your obedient servant, J.D. McLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 485 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 233-234 (From doc 34070 /2) J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs to, F.C. Laberge, Surveyor in Chief, Ottawa, 11 July 1904 about the management and agenda of the survey. “F.C. Laberge Esq., P.L.S. 71 A St. James Street Montreal, Que. Ottawa, 11th July, 1904. Sir,- I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, and in reply would say that the Depart- ment has not yet been furnished with a copy of the instruct- tions sent to you by Mr. Taché for the survey of the South- west boundary of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, Que. The said instructions probably contain all, or nearly all, that is necessary. I may, however, state that it is especially desired by this Department that all posts planted by yourself should of as permanent a nature as possible. For this purpose you should mound each one well with stones if they can be readily obtained, if not mound them with earth. All your accounts and expenses should be returned in detail, and in duplicate. You should furnish vouchers for all disbursements, and your pay sheets should be duly signed by the persons whom you have employed. You are ex- pected to be reasonably economical. All your accounts, after being examined, will be paid, if found reasonable and correct. After you have commenced the work, an advance will be made to you on account, if you make application for it. Copies of your returns, namely field notes, plan, pro- cess verbal and report should be prepared and sent to this...” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 486 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 233-234 (From doc 34070 /2) J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs to, F.C. Laberge, Surveyor in Chief, Ottawa, 11 July 1904 about the management and agenda of the survey. “...Department, after they have been approved by the Deputy Commissionner of Crown Lands, Que. It is especially desired that you should hurry this work forward. Blank forms have been sent to you by mail. Your obedient servant J.D.McLean Secretary.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 487 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 235-237, 235. E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French pages 235-237, followed by translation, pages 238-241.) “ Monsieur, Sur la demande que lui en a faite le Département des affaires des Sauvages du Canada, l’Honorable Ministres des Terres, Mines et Pê- cheries vous charge par les présentes de rétablir sur le terrain, la limite sud-ouest de la réserve des Sauvages de Doncaster, dans le comté de Terrebon- ne, c’est-à-dire d’une partie de la ligne centrale du canton Doncaster, qui est en même temps la limite nord-ouest du lot No. 30 de chacun des six premiers rangs de ce canton. Voici comment vous procéderez: Partant, sur chaque cordon ou ligne de rang, de la ligne reconnue entre les lots 29 et 30, vous chaînerez dans la direction du nord-est en suivant le cordon primitif, s’il vous est possible de le retrouver au nord-est de la ligne 29-30, ou, dans le cas con- traire, en suivant le prolongement du cordon existant (au sud-ouest de la ligne 29-30) la largeur du lot No 30 d’après les notes de l’arpentage primi- tif dudit canton, dont vous trouverez ci-joint un extrait. Dans les cas où il y aurait doute sur la position vérita- ble de ladite ligne 29-30, vous devrez la rétablir d’après les notes dudit arpentage primitif en chaînant la largeur des lots à partir de la ligne de lot la plus rapprochée qui aura pu être reconnue et constatée d’une manière claire et satisfaisante comme limite entre deux lots de l’arpentage primitif. Toutefois sur la ligne entre Doncaster et Wexford, la [limite] nord-est du lot 30 (1er rang) ne sera pas établie par un chaînage, co[mme ce- (celà) ]la doit avoir lieu sur les lignes de rangs, le coin sud-est dudit lot [de] vant y coincider avec l’extrémitié nord-ouest de la ligne centrale de [Wex] ford. Après avoir établi tel que susdit, chaque ligne de [?] point de ladite ligne centrale du Canton de Doncaster ou ligne nord-est [?] 30, vous joindrez ces points deux à deux par des lignes droites que [vous ch]aînerez avec soin, les angles fermés par ces droites devant être… " Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 488 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 235-237, 236. E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French pages 235-237, followed by translation, pages 238-241.) “relevés avec la plus grande exactitude possible. Toutes ces lignes dont l’en- semble formera la ligne centrale des 6 premiers rangs du canton Doncaster, devront être bien ouvertes, bien plaquées, et bien débarrassées sur au moins 3 pieds de largeur libre. Vous planterez des bornes de pierre avec témoins dessous, à chaque extrémité de la partie de la ligne centrale que vous avez à établir et aussi à chaque point d’intersection de cette ligne et des cor- dons ou lignes de rangs. Ces bornes devront être accompagnées de forts po- teaux en cèdre, solidement plantés en terre, équarris à la tête et lisiblement marqués chacun, à chacun des numéros des lots et des 204 64 rangs entre lesquels ils seront érigés. Vous remarquerez, sur le plan qui accompagne l’un de ces rap- ports *, qu’il y a eu, au sud-ouest de la ligne centrale approximative deux lignes comme cordons entre les rangs 6 & 7. Avant de faire entre ces deux rangs, [?] que présent ci-dessus, le chaînage de la largeur du lot 30, vous devrez v[ous] assurer laquelle de ces lignes doit être considérée comme la véritable [sépa-] ration de ces deux rangs. Si vous constatez que c’est la ligne la plus au nordouest qui est la limite véritable entre ces deux rangs v[?] vrez mesurer la largeur du lot 30 dans le prolongement_ vers le nord [?] de cette ligne de rang à partir du poteau 29-30 que vous aurez retr[?] que vous aurez rétabli. Vous devrez donner dans votre carnet d’opération [??] transmettrez copie à ce Département, l’azimut astronomique de toutes [li] gnes, soit neuves soit renouvelées. Vous trouverez ci-joint copies des rapports * de Mr. l’[?] J.A. Martin, touchant la ligne en question. L’un de ces rapports, celui [?] mars 1904, est accompagné d’un plan détaillé des lieux qui vous sera [?] grande utilité pour l’étude préliminaire du terrain et aussi pour l[?] cherches et constatations que vous aurez à faire avant d’établir [?] ment la ligne dont il s’agit. Comme nous le comprenons, ce travail doit être com[plété?] le 30 de ce mois. En conséquence vous voudrez bien vous mettre i[?] en communication avec le Département des Sauvages du Canada, à [?] doit payer tous les frais de cette opération. Cependant…" (Note left margin: "Voir l’avant dernier alinéa de cette page." / "See the last last paragraph of this page.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 489 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 235-237, 237. E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French pages 235-237, followed by translation, pages 238-241.) “Cependant, vous devrez transmettre à ce Département des Terres, Mi- nes et Pêcheries, une copie de vos plans, notes, rapports, etc; elle vous sera payée aux taux ordinaires. [Stripped section] Vous trouverez ci-joint copie des rapports de Mr. l’arpenteur J.A. Martin, touchant la ligne en question. L’un de ces rapports, celui du 8 mars 1904 est accompagné d’un plan détaillé des lieux qui vous sera d’une grande utilité pour l’étude préliminaire du terrain et aussi pour les re- cherches et constructions que vous aurez à faire avant d’établir définitive- ment la ligne dont il s’agit. Votre plan devra être dressé à l’échelle de 20 chaînes au pouce et contenir tous les renseignements topographiques importants sur une zone de 2 à 3 chaînes de largeur de part et d’autre des lignes que vous chaîne- rez, relèverez ou tracerez. Vous indiquerez aussi avec soin sur votre plan tous les bâtiments, défrichements, chemins, etc. qui se trouveront au nordest de la ligne centrale en question, c’est-à-dire sur ladite réserve des Sauvages, dans un rayon d’une dizaine de chaînes. Vous transmettrez une copie fidèle et dé- taillée de votre carnet d’opération. Votre rapport devra faire mention de [?] tout ce que vous aurez trouvé en fait de marques de l’arpentage primitif, la marche générale des opérations, de la qualité et de la nature du terrain, des arbres, etc, etc. Département des Terres, Mines J’ai l’honneur d’être et Pêcheries Monsieur Québec, 13 juin 1904 votre Obéissant Serviteur E.E. Taché Sous-Ministre. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 490 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 238-241, 238,Translation of original letter from; E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French on previous pages 235-237.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 491 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 238-241, 239. Translation of original letter from; E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French on previous pages 235-237.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 492 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 238-241, 240. Translation of original letter from; E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French on previous pages 235-237.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 493 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 238-241, 241. Translation of original letter from; E.E. Taché, Sub-Minister of Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries to F.C. Laberge, Surveyor, Quebec, June 13 1904. L.21983/03- “Instructions to Mr. F.C. Laberge, Surveyor for the establishment of the Southwest limits of the Reserve of Doncaster, County of Terrebonne.” (Original in French on previous pages 235-237.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 494 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 242 Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief of Indian Affairs to Frank Pedley, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 23 July 1904, exposing that: “Mr. F.C. Laberge, the Surveyor appointed to establish the Southwest boundary of the Doncaster Indian Reserve, informed the Department, under the date of the 7th instant, that he intended to commence the survey on the 12th following He should be now at work. When his survey is completed, the report can then be ascertained which improvements were made by the said squatters. Near the said boundary (which are not yet paid for) lie within the limits of the Reserve and their value, in order that they may be paid and ordered to leave the Reserve. This section will then close the matter. Mr. Laberge will be written to asking him to hurry the work forward.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 495 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 243-244 1-Receipt made by Indian Agent Périllard on 20 July 1904 to Timothe Arirhon from receipt for translations from English to Iroquois for an Assembly concerning Doncaster, held on July 19, 1904: $2.00. 2--Receipts made by Indian Agent Périllard on 20 July 1904 to Michel Frett from receipt for account for rent of a house for an Assembly concerning Doncaster, held on July 19, 1904: $2.00. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 496 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 245-246 On 20 July 1904, Indian Agent Joseph Périllard exposing to his Superintendent that the accounts-bills concerning the assembly held by the Oka Indians concerning the Doncaster Reserve: rent of a house and translator’s fees. (Translation page 246.) Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 497 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 247 Letter-post Card from 1st August 1904 from Surveyor Laberge exposing to J.D. McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs that concerning the Central Line of Doncaster, exposing that the work will be finished the 3rd instant (August 1904) and that he will forward a copy of the plan and field notes in the beginning of next week, expressing he had difficulties finding certain points but as he expressed: “but every thing will come out alright.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 498 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 248-249 (250-251; identical) Sketches of letters of Oath of Squatters leaving the lands, with concluded arrangements with the Governments, as seen in previous letters of Oaths. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 499 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 252-256 Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief for Indian Affairs to, Frank Pedley, Superintendant General du Department of Indian Affairs, Sainte-Lucie, 26 August 1904. “34070/2 Immediate Mem. St. Lucie _ Que. 26th Aug. 1903 The Deputy Superintendant General I have examined the improvements of squatters on the Doncaster Indian Reserve adjacent to its South-western boundary, which has been recently defined by Mr. F.C. Laberge P.L.S. and beg to submit for your consideration and approval the following statement of values to be paid to the said squatters on their ceasing to trespass on the Reserve; 1. Israel Thouin 988 Improvements on Lots 31 and 32 Range 6. 42 acres well cleared valued at $800.00 Extra for fencing 100.00 Clearing and improvements in Range 5 100.00 Total $1000.00 Mr. Thouin may move the fence North of the road on to the new line. Hereafter the Indians are to keep in repair one half of the same. Mr. Thouin may draw water, as heretofore during pleasure, from a certain spring on the Reserve situated about 500 feet from his barn. The Easterly corner of Mr. Thouin’s barn is on the Reserve about one foot. This trespass is allowed...(during pleasure)” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 500 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 252-256 Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief for Indian Affairs to, Frank Pedley, Superintendant General du Department of Indian Affairs, Sainte-Lucie, 26 August 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 501 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 252-256 Samuel Bray, Surveyor in Chief for Indian Affairs to, Frank Pedley, Superintendant General du Department of Indian Affairs, Sainte-Lucie, 26 August 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 502 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 257 J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs, to Zotique Cardin, Priest of Ste. Lucie, Ottawa, 31 August 1904. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 503 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 258-263 Letters of Oath of Squatters leaving the lands, with concluded arrangements with the Government. 11 September 1904. “Whereas the improvements on the land occupied by Eugene Lecault in the Doncaster Indian Reserve, Que., have been valued in the sum of fifty Dollars, and the said Eugene Lecault is satisfied and accepts the said valuation, and the said Eugene Lecault has been paid the said sum of Fifty Dollars in full for all claims against the Department of Indian Affairs, and the said Doncaster Indian Reserve, the receipt of which is hereby by him acknowledged, the said Eugene Lecault makes oath and says that he has vacated the said Indian Reserve, and doth hereby promise and swear that he will never again, either directly or indirectly, trespass in any manner whatsoever on the said Reserve. Eugene Lecault Sworn before me this 11th September 1904, at st. Lucie, P.Q. Ovide Beauchamp Mayor Witnesses: x Laurenzo Lahaie X Zotique Cardin, Mayor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 504 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 258 Page 258-263 Letters of Oath of Squatters leaving the lands, with concluded arrangements with the Government. 11 September 1904. Exact same formulas as the first one for the next pages: Page 258- 11 September 1904, Eugene Lecault Page 259- 14 September 1904, Adelard Perron Page 260- 4 September 1904, Joseph Huotte Page 261- 4September 1904, Edmon Cloutier Page 262- 5 September 1904, Roch Thouin Page 263- 5 September 1904, Israel Thouin Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 505 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 264 Meeting of Council of Caughnawaga: 15 November 1904: Exposing ascertaining the damages occured from wood removal which is going on, and expenses of the trip. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 506 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 265 Letter from 26 November 1904 from J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Secretary concerning a Resolution passed on Council in Caughnawaga exposing that Chief Daillebout be instructed to go to Doncaster to ascertain and report damages caused by wood removal. Below, a note from McLean exposes: “The Dept has not been informed as to any removal of wood from the Reserve nor why it is necessary for two persons to go to evoke the enquiries.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 507 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 274 Letter from 16 December 1904 from Accountancy of Indian Affairs Secretary concerning a Resolution passed on Council in Caughnawaga exposing that Chief Daillebout be ascertained and report fees covered by Indian Affairs. Below, a note exposes: “Note: agents covering letter dated 7th January 1905.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 508 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 266-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 509 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 267-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 510 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 268-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 511 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 269-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 512 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 270-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 513 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 271-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 514 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 272-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 515 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 266-273. 273-Full Report of F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, to the Secretary of 23rd August 1904 to the Department of Indian Affairs. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 516 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 275 (Page 274 is classified after page 265) Philippe Demers, M.P. sent a letter to J.D McLean on 6 January 1905, exposing that the late fees to the claim of Mr Viens a squatter, would have been paid to him if having known where he was located or of he entered his claim before the Parliamentary votes for the payments of the squatters claims has lapsed. “Sir last fall a friend of mine Mr Fr Viens ... a claim concerning the Doncaster Indian Reserve Que. You answered him of the 11th of November last (1904) no 34070/2 that his claim was valued at $1—that he has not found his claim in the proper time and that the money lapsed. Would you not recommend that this sum be sent again if the estimate of there is no other reason to defain this poor man of his due ? Yours truly, Philippe Demers, M.P.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 517 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 276 (Page 274 is classified after page 265) Letter from 28 January 1905 from Samuel Bray, Chief Surveyor to the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs exposing clarifications concerning the late letter of M.P. Louis Phillipe Demers from House of Commons to J.D McLean exposing that the late fees to the claim of Mr Viens a squatter, would have been paid to him if having known where he was located or of he entered his claim before the Parliamentary votes for the payments of the squatters claims has lapsed. Below he adds: “ The claim is a just one, and if provided for in the Estimate, I presume it would be simply a revote.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 518 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 277 On 30 January 1905, J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Deputy Superintendent General answers M.P. Louis Phillipe Demers from House of Commons exposing his request for the late compensation was accepted: “Dear Sir, In reply to your letter of the 26th instant, I beg to say that Mr. Viens claim as a squatter on the Doncaster Indian Reserve will be considered when the supplementary estimation of this Department are being prepared.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 519 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 278 Montreal Herald, 14 February 1903 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 520 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 279 Memorandum from Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs from February 21st 1905 to the effect that: “When at Caughnawaga on the 7t inst. Complaint was made of the altercation of the West boundary of the Reserve and that the new line run recently if not clear. It was also stated that timber was being out by the Lackawana & Charlemagne Lumber Company and the Maclaren Company and that some of the Indians of Caughnawaga are cutting timber for sale.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 521 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 280 Memorandum from Samuel Bray Chief Surveyor to the Deputy Superintendent General of Indien Affairs from 2 March 1905. Note on the left side: “1 Mr. Chitty 2 Dy (Deputy) Minister” “Referring to your memorandum of the 21st ultimo, I beg to state that no alteration what- ever of the southwest boundary of the Doncaster Indian Re- serve, Que., was made in the recent survey of this line. The line was run in strict accordance with the law and ac- cording to the instructions issued by the Crown Land Department of Quebec. The line necessarily is not clear for long distances because there is no standing timber on which the usual blazes may be made indicating the line. It is however, very much better posted that usual, and with a little trouble can be easily followed. x S. Bray Chief Surveyor.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 522 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 281, Letter from George Chitty, Timber Inspector from 3 March 1905 to the Deputy Minister M.P. Louis Phillipe Demers “File 34070 /02 Memorandum. Ottawa, 3rd March 1905. To the Deputy Minister:- With reference to your Memo. Of the 21st Ultimo, hereunder I beg to state that the Charlemagne & Lac Ouareau Lumber Company, Limited are the Licences of Doncaster Reserve for Spruce and Cedar Timber of 10 inches and over in diameter. They pay an annual ground rent and fee of $83.00. Mr. McLaurin is the Company’s Manager. There does not appear to be any complaint before the Department against Indians for cutting timber and possibly they are working for the Company. Geo. L. Chitty. Timber Inspector.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 523 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 282 Extract of Minutes from Council held at Caughnawaga on 18th. April, 1905. Original on Fyle No. 284, 192. Exposing the problems of people cutting wood on their lands. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 524 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 283-284 Indian Agent Blain exposes the "usefulness” of the last resolution in Council in Caughnawaga, on 21 April 1905. Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean answers Blain on 9 May 1905. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 525 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 285 Lawyer from Prévost & Rinfret, Agents : Barristers, from St. Jerome, sending the legal bills, a letter entitled: The Department of Indian Affairs: In debt with Thibaudeau Rinfret, from 10 February, 1904, concerning Louis Beauvais and Francois Laurent (Thires). Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 526 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 286 Lawyer from Prévost & Rinfret, Agents : Barristers, from St. Jerome, sending the legal bills, a letter entitled: The Department of Indian Affairs: In debt with Thibaudeau Rinfret, from 10 February, 1905, concerning Louis Beauvais and Francois Laurent (Thires). Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 527 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 287 Lawyer from Prévost & Rinfret, Agents : Barristers, from St. Jerome, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean on the 15th of May 1905 exposing: “In answer to your letter of May 6th, I beg to herewith enclosed an authorized account of my professional services in connection with trespass on the Doncaster Reserve and also at Oka. I wish to say that I have already forwarded to your de- partment an account dated February 10th 1904, which had been cer- tified correct by the two Crown Prosecutors and by the Clerk of the Crown. I have also a certificate from Judge Taschereau of the Superior Court of Montreal, who presided the trial and I hold it At your disposal. Hoping that the enclosed account will receive the early consideration of the Department, I beg to subscribe myself. Respectfully yours, Thibaudeau Rinfret.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 528 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 288 Report of Band Council of Caughnawaga from 17 May 1905 concerning the settlers taking timber, exposing their travelling expenses. “Indian Office 285189 Of Caughnawaga Memo May 17th, 1905 Report of Michel Daillebout and J.B. Daillebout on visit to Doncaster Reserve in November 1904. Found that timbers was being taken by settlers from the reserve, and learned boundaries, made report to the band on quality of land timber xc and on to suitability for settlement., The views of the undersigned as to dealing with the reserve were given verbally to Mr. Pedley. Fares on Railways $1.65 each Each way carters boards and meals $5,40. his J.B. “x” Daillebout mark his M. “x” Daillebout Mark Witness J Waniente Jocks.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 529 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 289 Letter from 18 May 1905 from Indian Agent J.A. Macrae to H. Frank Pedley, Department Superintendent General of Indian Affairs “Windsor Hotel Montreal, May 18, 1905. Frank Pedley, Esq, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs Ottawa, Ont. Sir, I enclose herewith a report of Mr. J.B. Daillebout and M. Daillebout, on a visit made by them to Doncaster Reserve in November last. I have not seen the correspondence in this matter-which was brought to my attention on the Reserve: but the circumstances which led to their visit were, they say, described verbally to you. As they were three days away, and had to pay their expenses to Doncaster and return the amount charged is reasonable. It is very much less than they, necessarily, must have expended, but the Band only offered to pay $5.00 each for expense, and they ask for no more. I trust this matter may be settled as it have caused some irritation. Your truly x J.A. Macrea.” Note written below exposed the agreement reading as: “Refer Agent Blain to letters (turned out) the claim of J.B. Daillebout and M. Daillebout for expenses going to Doncaster Res. Inform him a report has been received through Inspector Macrae of the services. Vouchers may therefore be forwarded in their favour. JWS.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 530 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 289 In the same letter from 18 May 1905 from Indian Agent J.A. Macrae to H. Frank Pedley, Department Superintendent General of Indian Affairs a note written below exposed the agreement reading as: “Refer Agent Blain to letters (turned out) the claim of J.B. Daillebout and M. Daillebout for expenses going to Doncaster Res. Inform him a report has been received through Inspector Macrae of the services. Vouchers may therefore be forwarded in their favour. JWS.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 531 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 290-292 from May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 532 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 290-292 from May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 533 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 290-292 from May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 534 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 293-294 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Minister of Justice, exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 535 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 293-294 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Minister of Justice, exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 536 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 295-297 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Department of Indian Affairs, a literal copy as the previous sent to Minister of Justice (on pages 290-292), exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 537 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 295-297 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Department of Indian Affairs, a literal copy as the previous sent to Minister of Justice (on pages 290-292), exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 538 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 295-297 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Department of Indian Affairs, a literal copy as the previous sent to Minister of Justice (on pages 290-292), exposing clarification in a report of 2 pages exposing a detailed agenda of the legal procedures encountered. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 539 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 298-299 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Department of Indian Affairs, a literal copy as the previous sent to Minister of Justice. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 540 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 298-299 Letter from 7 June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, to the Department of Indian Affairs, a literal copy as the previous sent to Minister of Justice. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 541 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 300 On 7 June 1905 J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Secretary enclosed a $150,00 payment to Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, exposing that “it is not thought advisable to pay any cost in the Louis Beauvais case.” Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 542 NAMES ENCOUNTERED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER A- André, Pierre or Paul, Assistant Secretary Treasurer of Doncaster, 1901. André: Leopold André, Secretary Treasurer to the Municipality of Doncaster, 1897. B- Beauchamp, Ovide, Mayor of Ste. Lucie de Doncaster, 1897. Belle, C.E., Esquire, Crown Timber Agent, Montreal, October 4, 1873. Bernier, C.S., Superintendent of Department of Lands and Forests of Province of Quebec, 1924. Bray, Samuel Bray, Surveyor, 1901-1906 Brosseau, Alexander Brosseau, Indian Agent 1897. Bruce, Robert, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1853. Butler, Thomas John Indian Agent, 1874. C- Caldwell: Caldwell, Acting as Deputy Superintendent General of the Lands and Timber Branch of Indian Affairs 1932. Campbell, McMaster & Couture Law firm, 1901-1903. Cardin, Zotique, Priest of Ste Lucie, 1904 Chitty, George L., Timber inspector, 1905. Conley, G.A., a temporary employee, Indian Affairs departmental accountant, 1932. F- Fletcher, K.T. (or H.T.), Secretary for the Commissary of Crown Lands, 1853. Forget, Noé, Mayor, Ste Lucie Doncaster, July 1890. Fortin, Pierre-Etienne, commissioner of Crown Lands, from Quebec, on the 13th September 1873. G- Gauvin, Superintendent of Surveys, 1904 Gerow, Thomas Gerow Murphy, on May 18, 1932, was a Canadian politician, Superintendent General (October 29, 1883 – April 7, 1971). G.M. Matheson, who was employed in the Records Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1888 until his retirement as head registrar in 1936. Guthrie, Hughes Minister of Justice, 1932. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 543 H- Hauser, Caughnawaga Priest, 1927-1932. Hugh Guthrie, E.C., Minister of Justice to Superintendent General, 1930. J- Joly: Henry G, Honorable Henry G. Joly of Lobtiniere, Minister of Interior and General Surintendent of tribes of Savages, 4 October 1893. L- Laberge, F.C: Mr F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, 1901-1904 Lanctot, Charles, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec from 30 August 1932. Langevin, Jean, Esquire of Crown Lands, 1853. Lee, William H., C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs, 1853. M- Mackenzie, A.F., acting as Assistant Deputy and Secretary of Indian Affairs, 1929. Macombe, E.C., minister of Justice, 1921. Macrae: Indian Agent J.A. Macrae, Ottawa, from 27 August 1901. Matheson, George M., (who was employed in the Records Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1888 until his retirement as head registrar in 1936.) McGill, Harold Wigmore, PC. Who served in the Legislature for just over two years before vacating his seat. He was appointed as Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa. 51 His appointment took effect and he vacated his seat in the Alberta Legislature on October 14, 1932. 52 McKennea, Andrew Private Secretary of superintendent gen. of Indian Affairs, 1898. 53 McLean, Mr McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs, October 1897. Marchand, A.J., Land Agent, 1904 Martin, J.A, Surveyor, 1904 Martin J. Crown Surveyor from Agency of the Department of Lands and Forests and Fisheries of Quebec, 1904 Mercier, Honoré, Minister of Lands and Forests, 1924 Meredith: .A. Meredithe, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior, 29 November 1873. In the summer of 1873 he became deputy minister of the new Department of the Interior with Alexander Campbell as the first minister. The department assumed a wide range of 51 N. Hindsley takes seat in Calgary". Vol XXXII No. 16. Edmonton Bulletin. January 20, 1933. pp. 1–2. 52 "Calgary Doctor Gets Federal Appointment". Vol 58, No. 87. Winnipeg Free Press. December 14, 1932. p. 1. 53 E. Brian Titley, “McKENNA, JAMES ANDREW JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mckenna_james_andrew_joseph_14E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 544 responsibilities, including the Indian affairs branch and the dominion lands branch, but Meredith was loath at this stage in his career to take on burdensome new responsibilities. Still, Meredith and Campbell quickly developed a high regard for each other’s abilities, and Meredith as deputy apparently achieved a far-reaching restructuring of the Indian affairs and the lands branches. 54 Murphy, Thomas Gerow Murphy, on May 18, 1932, (October 29, 1883 – April 7, 1971) was a Canadian politician, Superintendent General. Born in Northumberland County, Ontario, he was a pharmacist before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the Manitoba riding of Neepawa in the 1925 federal election. A Conservative, he was defeated in the 1926 election by Progressive Robert Milne. He defeated Milne in the 1930 federal election to return to Parliament and was appointed to the Cabinet of R.B. Bennett. He was defeated in the 1935 and 1940 elections. From 1930 to 1935, he was the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs and Minister of the Interior.55 N- Napier, Referred to Colonel Napier, 1853. Newcomb-Newcombe, E. L. Newcomb, Esq, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa, 1896- 1921. P- Parent S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901. Pedley-Peddler-, H. Frank, Department Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, 1904 Pennefather, Richard Theodore, superintendent-general, was the official head of the Indian Affairs, superintendent-general, from February 20, 1858. His greatest contribution to Canada was his chairmanship of a three-man commission which conducted an inquiry from 1856 to 1858 into the Indian Department’s operations. Perillard, Joseph: Indian Agent for Oka, 1901-1903 Piché: G.C., (Gustave Clodomir) Piché, Chief of Forestry Service, Quebec, 1929. Pinsonneault, Joseph Euclide Rosario, (JE.R.), Esq. Indian Agent, from August 15, 1874. 54 Peter Oliver, “MEREDITH, EDMUND ALLEN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 8, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/meredith_edmund_allen_12E.html. 55 Thomas Gerow Source: Wikipedia–, accessed May 3, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gerow_Murphy Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 545 Pope: Joseph Pope, Under-Secretary of State to the Secretary of Indian Affairs, 28 February 1902.56 Prefontaine: Raymond Prefontaine, Solicitor, Barrister 1897, Liberal Prime Minister, 1901-1910. Prevost & Rinfret Barrister, Lawyers, 1964. R- Rimmer, Reginald, Law clerk of Indian Affairs, 1902 Rinfret, Thibodeau, PC (June 22, 1879 – July 25, 1962) was a Canadian jurist and the ninth Chief Justice of Canada and Administrator of Canada in 1952. Rolph: John Rolph, Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1853. Russell: Andrew Russell, Assistant Commissioner, 1858. S- Scott, Duncan C., the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa 1927- 1928. Sifton: Clifford Sifton, Lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and office holders worn into Laurier’s cabinet as minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs on 17 Nov. 1896.57 Sinclair: (potential assistant of Indian Affairs.), 1890. Smart: J.A. Smart, Deputy Minister of Interior in Ottawa from October 19, 1897. Steward, Charles, Canadian Minister of the Interior and Mines, 1921. (STUART; SEE EDWARD)-Stuart: William Stuart Edwards, Deputy Minister of Justice, exposing the rights sold from the Reserve. Stewart, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs (who became Keeper of the records in 1905) T- Taché: E.E. TACHÉ, Assist.-Commissioner, of Crown Lands, Quebec, 30th April, 1889 and Deputy minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries 1904-1906 Taschereau: Henri Taschereau Taschereau, Louis Alexandre, Prime Minister of Quebec, and Attorney General, 1929- 1932. Thibodeau-Rinfret, Esquire Barrister, Lawyer, 1901-1905. Thires AKA LAURENT: François Thires, from Caughnawaga, 1901. 56 Joseph Pope P. B. Waite, “POPE, Sir JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pope_joseph_15E.html. 57 David J. Hall, “SIFTON, Sir CLIFFORD,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sifton_clifford_15E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 546 Tucker, William James: Member, Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization and of Municipal Law, 1898-1902 at Parliament, in the County of Wellington West. V- Valin, R.A. (sometimes wrongfully spelled: Varin) Started as Secretary of Cadasters of Lands Branch from Department of Lands and Forests of Quebec, 1904-1929. Vankoughenet: Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1874. Vankoughnet: H Vankoughnet, Esquire Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, 1889. Varin, G. Arthur, -see VALIN, Minister of Cadastre, Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, Quebec, 1904 W- Wauhebe, Joseph, Department of Crown Lands 1858. William Stuart Edwards, Deputy Minister of Justice, 1932 (potentially same as the next.) William: A.S. William acting as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affs 1932. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 547 Sources and Notes 1- Ste Lucie des Laurentides official website, consulted November 2015 http://www.municipalite.sainte-lucie-des-laurentides.qc.ca/ 2-Source mainly used for this Chapter: HEADQUARTERS - CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920. LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (120 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95452. 3-15-Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly of Canada, Journals, 1847, Appendix (T.), “Report on the affairs of the Indians in Canada” at folio 5. 4-PRE-CONFEDERATION CLAIMS AND FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL OBLIGATIONS: A SURVEY OF THE APPLICABLE LAW prepared for the Indian Claims Commission (Revised version) David Schulze with Peter W. Hutchins and Jameela Jeeroburkhan Hutchins Grant & Associés 11 November 2005, page 16, accessed June 11, 2017, : http://www.dionneschulze.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pre-Confed-DS-rev-for- ICC.pdf 5-Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report, Volume 1, Looking Forward Looking Back, Part One, The Relationship in Historical Perspective, Chapter 6, “3. Treaty Making in Ontario, the West and the North”. 6-The substance of the Order in Council of 9 August 1853 was published as “Schedule of Lands Appropriated to the Indians of Lower Canada under Act 14 and 15 V. c. 106”, signed for the Commissioner of Crown Lands and dated 8 June 1854, in Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Journals, 1858, Vol. 16, App. (No. 21), Appendix No. 34. 7-Jacqueline Beaulieu, Localization of the Aboriginal Nations in Québec - Land Transactions (Québec: Ministère des ressources naturelles, 1998) page 120, , accessed June 11, 2017, : http://www.dionneschulze.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pre-Confed-DS-rev-for- ICC.pdf 8-Clément E. Deschamps, Municipalités et paroisses dans la province de Québec (n.p., 1896) page 986. 9-An Act to Authorise the Setting Apart of Lands for the Use of Certain Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, S.C. 1851, c.106 10-Elizabeth Gibbs, ed., Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada, 1841- 1867, vol. 10, part 1, 1851 (Montreal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français) page 199. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 548 11- Earlier, three justices of the Supreme Court of Canada had concluded that title to an 1851 reserve passed to the federal Crown at Confederation: Attorney-General for Canada v. Giroux (1916), 30 D.L.R. 123, 4 C.N.L.C. 147 (S.C.C.), per Duff J. at 137-40 and per Idington J. at 132-33. 12-Attorney-General for Quebec v. Attorney-General for Canada. Re Indian Lands, a judicial review granted, under the name Star Chrome Mining) (1920), 56 D.L.R. 373 (P.C.) at 375, 4 C.N.L.C. 238 at page 240. 13-Caughnawaga Agency - Petition signed by the inhabitants of the Doncaster Township requesting the abolition of the Indian reserve in the township, Library and Archives Canada. 14-Attorney-General for Quebec v. Attorney-General for Canada. Re Indian Lands (sub nom. Star Chrome Mining) (1920), 56 D.L.R. 373 (P.C.) at 375, 4 C.N.L.C. 238 page 240. 15-Ibid 3 16-An Act respecting lands set apart for Indians, S.Q. 1922, c.37, s.1. 17-24-31 LAC, Oka agency - Lake of Two Mountains - dispute between the band and the Seminary of St. Sulpice as to who holds title to the land in the Seigniory, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11138 18- Douglas Leighton, “PENNEFATHER, RICHARD THEODORE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pennefather_richard_theodore_9E.html. 19-20-21-56-P. B. Waite, “POPE, Sir JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pope_joseph_15E.html. 20-Douglas Leighton, “PENNEFATHER, RICHARD THEODORE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pennefather_richard_theodore_9E.html. 21- Ibid 19 22-LAC reel c-11224, consulted on March 2014 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem& rec_nbr=2082318&lang=eng&rec_nbr_list=2082319,2082318 23- An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands, taken from Christian Aboriginal Infrastructure Developments website–, accessed June 2, 2017 http://caid.ca/http://caid.ca/IndLanAct1860.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 549 24- Ibid 17 25-Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests for the Province of Ontario, For the Year ending 31st October, 1928. Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 1929. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 4 October 2013. https://archive.org/stream/reportofminister192730ontauoft#page/n150/mode/1up 26- LAC, Microfilm reel C-11224, HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1954, 222 pages 27-Usufruct is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed a jurisdiction that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus: Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it. 28-Richard H. Bartlett, Indian Reserves in Quebec, ISBN 0-888880-140-8, 1984, 44 pages. 29 -St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R. 1886 CanLII 30, 13 Ont. App. R. 148 (20 April 1886), Court of Appeal (Ontario, Canada) -(1885), 10 O.R. 196 -St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen[1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888) - "Ontario-Manitoba Boundary Case". 22 July 1884. Retrieved 18 January 2013. - "Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889, 52-53 Vict., c. 28 (U.K.)". 12 August 1889. Retrieved 18 January 2013. - The Ontario Mining Company Limited and The Attorney General for the Dominion of Canada v The Attorney General for the Province of Ontario [1902] UKPC 46, [1903] AC 73 (12 November 1902) (on appeal from Canada)as approved by An Act for the settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Reserve Lands, S.C. 1924, c. 48 and The Indian Lands Act, 1924, S.O. 1924, c. 15 -Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Act, S.C. 1988, c. 39 , with corresponding provincial approval in the Indian Lands Agreement Confirmation Act, 1989, S.O. 1989, c. 26 (repealed in error by the Legislation Act, 2006, s. 98(3), as enacted by the Access to Justice Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 21, Sch. F , and subsequently reenacted by the Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Confirmation Act, 2010, S.O. 2010, c. 1, Sch. 10 ) 30-St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen[1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888) 31-Ibid 17 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 550 32-MINERAL RIGHTS ON INDIAN RESERVES IN ONTARIO RICHARD H. BARTLETT, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W0, 1983. 33-CANLI website, Canada, –, accessed June 2, 2017 https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1887/1887canlii3/1887canlii3.html 34-Bradford Morse, Aboriginal Peoples and the Law, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Feb 15, 1985, page 58. 35-Ibid 19. 36-Justice and Law Department website, Canada, –, accessed June 2, 2017 http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-7.2/FullText.html 37-LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (222 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95,452-1. 38- Burthen: etymology: the terms that which is borne with difficulty; obligation; carrying capacity. 39-HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (222 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95,452-1. 40-Tantamount: means, equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as. 41-CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, LAC, MIKAN no. 2083454, reel C-11172, (301 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2163 File Part 2A. File number: 34,070. 42- L’Avenir du Nord, French Canadian newspaper from BAnQ, consulted on 17 May 2015: http://collections.banq.qc.ca:81/jrn03/avenirdunord/src/1904/02/11/164429_1904-02- 11.pdf 43- 53-E. Brian Titley, “McKENNA, JAMES ANDREW JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mckenna_james_andrew_joseph_14E.html. Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 551 44- Manifolded: old term designing having many, several folds, layers: exposing a complexity. 45- Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890: In Two Volumes, Volume 1, Editor, Chamberlain, Printer of the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, Ottawa, 1891. 46- Ste Lucie, Doncaster: Tioweró:ton archives 1851-1921 from Eric Pouliot’s book online at Library and Archives Canada available online: http://epe.lac- bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/eric_pouliot- thisdale/ste_lucie/Ste_Lucie_Doncaster_Tioweroton_archives_1851_to_1921.pdf 47- Source mainly used for this Chapter: CAUGHNAWAGA AGENCY - PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE.1873-1890, LAC, MIKAN no. 2062876, reel C-11234, (49 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2425. File number: 107,786. 48-"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement, Canadian Parliament, 1892, from Stanford University Library. 49- Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door, Kahnawake weekly paper, “Pinsonneault: Indian agent for Sault St. Louis and Two Mountains”, Kahnawake, July 22, 2016. 50- Report of the Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada, a report from the Laval Normal School for the scholastic 1870-71, from the Minister of Public Instruction, a chapter entitled “Extracts from Reports of Schools, managed from 1869-70”, From University of Michigan. 51-N. Hindsley takes seat in Calgary". Vol XXXII No. 16. Edmonton Bulletin. January 20, 1933. pp. 1–2. 52-"Calgary Doctor Gets Federal Appointment". Vol 58, No. 87. Winnipeg Free Press. December 14, 1932. p. 1. 53 Ibid 43 54- Peter Oliver, “MEREDITH, EDMUND ALLEN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 8, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/meredith_edmund_allen_12E.html. 55-Source: Wikipedia–, accessed May 3, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gerow_Murphy 56-Ibid 19 Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 552 57-David J. Hall, “SIFTON, Sir CLIFFORD,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sifton_clifford_15E.html. 58-An analysis of court case involving Innus of Uashaunnuat (Innus de Uashat et de Mani-Utenam) c. Compagnie minière IOC inc. (Iron Ore Company of Canada), 2016 QCCS 5133, exposing several proofs and citations of the Doncaster Archives depicted and transcribed from microfilm reel: BAC, RG10, volume 2163, file 34070, pt.2A, reel. C-11172. Consulted online on May 2016: file:///C:/Users/HP/Documents/DONCASTER_COURT%20mentioning%20several%20c ourt%20cases%20of%201904%20and%20squatters%20petittions%202.pdf Sources: An analysis of court case involving Innus of Uashaunnuat (Innus de Uashat et de Mani-Utenam) v. Mining Company IOC inc. (Iron Ore Company of Canada), 2016 QCCS 5133, exposing several citations of the Doncaster Archives depicted and transcribed from microfilm reel C-11172. 58 58 An analysis of court case involving Innus of Uashaunnuat (Innus de Uashat et de Mani-Utenam) c. Compagnie minière IOC inc. (Iron Ore Company of Canada), 2016 QCCS 5133, exposing several proofs and citations of the Doncaster Archives depicted and transcribed from microfilm reel: BAC, RG10, volume 2163, file 34070, pt.2A, reel. C-11172. Consulted online on May 2016: file:///C:/Users/HP/Documents/DONCASTER_COURT%20mentioning%20several%20court%20cases%20of %201904%20and%20squatters%20petittions%202.pdf Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, Archives and history of Tiowero: ton’s creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale

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M. Katsirakeron, 1,84 B. Anetawasks 0,42 Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 111-116 The document that Amable Roussin presented to the Indian Agent Joseph Perillard was a letter from 17 June 1839 exposing a letter from John Stewart, Chairman at the Council Chamber on 17 June 1839. The document exposed previous claims petitioned by previous other Native Bands of this period, including the Iroquois, Algonquins and Nipissings of Two Mountains. (Transcriptions) Source: Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890: In Two Volumes, Volume 1, Editor, Chamberlain, Printer of the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Ottawa, 1891.
49 Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890: In Two Volumes, Volume 1, Editor, Chamberlain, Printer of the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Ottawa, 1891. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 151 Map of the Province of Quebec, indicating frontiers; North, North-West, North-East as recognized by the Statutes of Canada, 61 Victoria, cap. 3. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Extract from Eric Pouliot's book online at Library and Archives Canada available online entitled: Ste Lucie, Doncaster: Tioweró:ton archives 1851-1921
50 Ste Lucie, Doncaster: Tioweró:ton archives 1851-1921 from Eric Pouliot's book online at Library and Archives Canada available online: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/eric_pouliot- thisdale/ste_lucie/Ste_Lucie_Doncaster_Tioweroton_archives_1851_to_1921.pdf Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 224 Minuteries of the Caughnawaga Council 27 May 1904 about boundaries of Sault St. Louis as well as Doncaster. (Note below: "Agent covering letter dated 9 th June 1904.") Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 257 J.D. McLean, Secretary of Indian Affairs, to Zotique Cardin, Priest of Ste. Lucie, Ottawa, 31 August 1904. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 264 Meeting of Council of Caughnawaga: 15 November 1904: Exposing ascertaining the damages occured from wood removal which is going on, and expenses of the trip. Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 277 On 30 January 1905, J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Deputy Superintendent General answers M.P. Louis Phillipe Demers from House of Commons exposing his request for the late compensation was accepted: "Dear Sir, In reply to your letter of the 26 th instant, I beg to say that Mr. Viens claim as a squatter on the Doncaster Indian Reserve will be considered when the supplementary estimation of this Department are being prepared." Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 282 Extract of Minutes from Council held at Caughnawaga on 18 th . April, 1905. Original on Fyle No. 284, 192. Exposing the problems of people cutting wood on their lands. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 283-284 Indian Agent Blain exposes the "usefulness" of the last resolution in Council in Caughnawaga, on 21 April 1905. Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean answers Blain on 9 May 1905. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 286 Lawyer from Prévost & Rinfret, Agents : Barristers, from St. Jerome, sending the legal bills, a letter entitled: The Department of Indian Affairs: In debt with Thibaudeau Rinfret, from 10 February, 1905, concerning Louis Beauvais and Francois Laurent (Thires). Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 290-292 from May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15 th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 290-292 from May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15 th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 290-292 from May-June 1905, from Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, answering Indian Affairs Secretary J.D. McLean in the May-June 1905 period after the previous letter sent the 15 th of May 1905 exposing clarification in a deeper report of 3 pages. Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, Microfilm reel C-11172, Unsuccessful attempt to buy the Doncaster reserve and settlement with the squatters Page 300 On 7 June 1905 J.D. McLean Indian Affairs Secretary enclosed a $150,00 payment to Lawyer Thibaudeau Rinfret, exposing that "it is not thought advisable to pay any cost in the Louis Beauvais case." Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale NAMES ENCOUNTERED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A- André, Pierre or Paul, Assistant Secretary Treasurer of Doncaster, 1901. André: Leopold André, Secretary Treasurer to the Municipality of Doncaster, 1897.
B- Beauchamp, Ovide, Mayor of Ste. Lucie de Doncaster, 1897.
Belle, C.E., Esquire, Crown Timber Agent, Montreal, October 4, 1873.
Bernier, C.S., Superintendent of Department of Lands and Forests of Province of Quebec, 1924. Bray, Samuel Bray, Surveyor, 1901-1906
Brosseau, Alexander Brosseau, Indian Agent 1897.
Bruce, Robert, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1853. Butler, Thomas John Indian Agent, 1874.
C- Caldwell: Caldwell, Acting as Deputy Superintendent General of the Lands and Timber Branch of Indian Affairs 1932.
Campbell, McMaster & Couture Law firm, 1901-1903.
Cardin, Zotique, Priest of Ste Lucie, 1904
Chitty, George L., Timber inspector, 1905.
Conley, G.A., a temporary employee, Indian Affairs departmental accountant, 1932.
F- Fletcher, K.T. (or H.T.), Secretary for the Commissary of Crown Lands, 1853. Forget, Noé, Mayor, Ste Lucie Doncaster, July 1890.
Fortin, Pierre-Etienne, commissioner of Crown Lands, from Quebec, on the 13th September 1873.
G- Gauvin, Superintendent of Surveys, 1904
Gerow, Thomas Gerow Murphy, on May 18, 1932, was a Canadian politician, Superintendent General (October 29, 1883 -April 7, 1971).
G.M. Matheson, who was employed in the Records Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1888 until his retirement as head registrar in 1936. Guthrie, Hughes Minister of Justice, 1932. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale
H- Hauser, Caughnawaga Priest, 1927-1932.
Hugh Guthrie, E.C., Minister of Justice to Superintendent General, 1930.
J- Joly: Henry G, Honorable Henry G. Joly of Lobtiniere, Minister of Interior and General Surintendent of tribes of Savages, 4 October 1893.
L- Laberge, F.C: Mr F.C. Laberge Surveyor appointed for the surveying of the Doncaster Reserve, 1901-1904
Lanctot, Charles, Deputy Attorney General of Quebec from 30 August 1932.
Langevin, Jean, Esquire of Crown Lands, 1853.
Lee, William H., C.E.C., Clerk of Executive Council of Indian Affairs, 1853.
M- Mackenzie, A.F., acting as Assistant Deputy and Secretary of Indian Affairs, 1929.
Macombe, E.C., minister of Justice, 1921. Macrae: Indian Agent J.A. Macrae, Ottawa, from 27 August 1901.
Matheson, George M., (who was employed in the Records Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1888 until his retirement as head registrar in 1936.)
McGill, Harold Wigmore, PC. Who served in the Legislature for just over two years before vacating his seat. He was appointed as Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa. 51 His appointment took effect and he vacated his seat in the Alberta Legislature on October 14, 1932. 52
McKennea, Andrew Private Secretary of superintendent gen. of Indian Affairs, 1898. 53
McLean, Mr McLean Secretary of Indian Affairs, October 1897.
Marchand, A.J., Land Agent, 1904
Martin, J.A, Surveyor, 1904
Martin J. Crown Surveyor from Agency of the Department of Lands and Forests and Fisheries of Quebec, 1904
Mercier, Honoré, Minister of Lands and Forests, 1924
Meredith: .A. Meredithe, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior, 29 November 1873. In the summer of 1873 he became deputy minister of the new Department of the Interior with Alexander Campbell as the first minister. The department assumed a wide range of
N. Hindsley takes seat in Calgary". Vol XXXII No. 16. Edmonton Bulletin. January 20, 1933. pp. 1-2.
E. Brian Titley, "McKENNA, JAMES ANDREW JOSEPH," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mckenna_james_andrew_joseph_14E.html. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale responsibilities, including the Indian affairs branch and the dominion lands branch, but Meredith was loath at this stage in his career to take on burdensome new responsibilities.
Still, Meredith and Campbell quickly developed a high regard for each other's abilities, and Meredith as deputy apparently achieved a far-reaching restructuring of the Indian affairs and the lands branches. 54
Murphy, Thomas Gerow Murphy, on May 18, 1932, (October 29, 1883 -April 7, 1971) was a Canadian politician, Superintendent General. Born in Northumberland County, Ontario, he was a pharmacist before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the Manitoba riding of Neepawa in the 1925 federal election.
A Conservative, he was defeated in the 1926 election by Progressive Robert Milne. He defeated Milne in the 1930 federal election to return to Parliament and was appointed to the Cabinet of R.B. Bennett. He was defeated in the 1935 and 1940 elections. From 1930 to 1935, he was the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs and Minister of the Interior. 55
N- Napier, Referred to Colonel Napier, 1853.
Newcomb-Newcombe, E. L. Newcomb, Esq, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa, 1896- 1921.
P- Parent S.W. Parent, Minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, from 27 August 1901. Pedley-Peddler-, H. Frank, Department Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, 1904
Pennefather, Richard Theodore, superintendent-general, was the official head of the Indian Affairs, superintendent-general, from February 20, 1858. His greatest contribution to Canada was his chairmanship of a three-man commission which conducted an inquiry from 1856 to 1858 into the Indian Department's operations. Perillard, Joseph: Indian Agent for Oka, 1901-1903 Piché: G.C., (Gustave Clodomir) Piché, Chief of Forestry Service, Quebec, 1929. Pinsonneault, Joseph Euclide Rosario, (JE.R.), Esq. Indian Agent, from August 15, 1874.
Peter Oliver, "MEREDITH, EDMUND ALLEN," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 8, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/meredith_edmund_allen_12E.html.
Thomas Gerow Source: Wikipedia-, accessed May 3, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gerow_Murphy Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale Pope: Joseph Pope, Under-Secretary of State to the Secretary of Indian Affairs, 28 February 1902. 56 Prefontaine: Raymond Prefontaine, Solicitor, Barrister 1897, Liberal Prime Minister, 1901-1910.
Prevost & Rinfret Barrister, Lawyers, 1964.
R- Rimmer, Reginald, Law clerk of Indian Affairs, 1902
Rinfret, Thibodeau, PC (June 22, 1879 -July 25, 1962) was a Canadian jurist and the ninth Chief Justice of Canada and Administrator of Canada in 1952. Rolph: John Rolph, Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1853. Russell: Andrew Russell, Assistant Commissioner, 1858.
S- Scott, Duncan C., the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in Ottawa 1927- 1928. Sifton: Clifford Sifton, Lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and office holders worn into Laurier's cabinet as minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs on 17 Nov. 1896. 57
Sinclair: (potential assistant of Indian Affairs.), 1890. Smart: J.A. Smart, Deputy Minister of Interior in Ottawa from October 19, 1897.
Steward, Charles, Canadian Minister of the Interior and Mines, 1921. (STUART; SEE EDWARD)-Stuart: William Stuart Edwards, Deputy Minister of Justice, exposing the rights sold from the Reserve.
Stewart, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs (who became Keeper of the records in 1905)
T- Taché: E.E. TACHÉ, Assist.-Commissioner, of Crown Lands, Quebec, 30th April, 1889 and Deputy minister of Lands, Mines and Fisheries 1904-1906 Taschereau: Henri Taschereau Taschereau, Louis Alexandre, Prime Minister of Quebec, and Attorney General, 1929- 1932. Thibodeau-Rinfret, Esquire Barrister, Lawyer, 1901-1905.
Thires AKA LAURENT: François Thires, from Caughnawaga, 1901.
Joseph Pope P. B. Waite, "POPE, Sir JOSEPH," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pope_joseph_15E.html.
David J. Hall, "SIFTON, Sir CLIFFORD," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sifton_clifford_15E.html. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale
Tucker, William James: Member, Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization and of Municipal Law, 1898-1902 at Parliament, in the County of Wellington West.
V- Valin, R.A. (sometimes wrongfully spelled: Varin) Started as Secretary of Cadasters of Lands Branch from Department of Lands and Forests of Quebec, 1904-1929. Vankoughenet: Vankoughenet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1874. Vankoughnet: H Vankoughnet, Esquire Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, 1889. Varin, G. Arthur, -see VALIN, Minister of Cadastre, Department of Lands, Mines and Fisheries, Quebec, 1904
W- Wauhebe, Joseph, Department of Crown Lands 1858.
William Stuart Edwards, Deputy Minister of Justice, 1932 (potentially same as the next.) William: A.S. William acting as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affs 1932. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale Sources and Notes
-Ste Lucie des Laurentides official website, consulted November 2015 http://www.municipalite.sainte-lucie-des-laurentides.qc.ca/
-Source mainly used for this Chapter: HEADQUARTERS -CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 1853-1920.
LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (120 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95452.
-15-Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly of Canada, Journals, 1847, Appendix (T.), "Report on the affairs of the Indians in Canada" at folio 5.
-PRE-CONFEDERATION CLAIMS AND FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL OBLIGATIONS: A SURVEY OF THE APPLICABLE LAW prepared for the Indian Claims Commission (Revised version) David Schulze with Peter W. Hutchins and Jameela Jeeroburkhan Hutchins Grant & Associés 11 November 2005, page 16, accessed June 11, 2017, : http://www.dionneschulze.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pre-Confed-DS-rev-for- ICC.pdf
-Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report, Volume 1, Looking Forward Looking Back, Part One, The Relationship in Historical Perspective, Chapter 6, "3. Treaty Making in Ontario, the West and the North".
-The substance of the Order in Council of 9 August 1853 was published as "Schedule of Lands Appropriated to the Indians of Lower Canada under Act 14 and 15 V. c. 106", signed for the Commissioner of Crown Lands and dated 8 June 1854, in Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Journals, 1858, Vol. 16, App. (No. 21), Appendix No. 34.
-Jacqueline Beaulieu, Localization of the Aboriginal Nations in Québec -Land Transactions (Québec: Ministère des ressources naturelles, 1998) page 120, , accessed June 11, 2017, : http://www.dionneschulze.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pre-Confed-DS-rev-for- ICC.pdf
-Clément E. Deschamps, Municipalités et paroisses dans la province de Québec (n.p., 1896) page 986.
-An Act to Authorise the Setting Apart of Lands for the Use of Certain Indian Tribes in Lower Canada, S.C. 1851, c.106
-Elizabeth Gibbs, ed., Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada, 1841- 1867, vol. 10, part 1, 1851 (Montreal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français) page 199. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale
-Earlier, three justices of the Supreme Court of Canada had concluded that title to an 1851 reserve passed to the federal Crown at Confederation: Attorney-General for Canada v. Giroux (1916), 30 D.L.R. 123, 4 C.N.L.C. 147 (S.C.C.), per Duff J. at 137-40 and per Idington J. at 132-33.
-Attorney-General for Quebec v. Attorney-General for Canada. Re Indian Lands, a judicial review granted, under the name Star Chrome Mining) (1920), 56 D.L.R. 373 (P.C.) at 375, 4 C.N.L.C. 238 at page 240.
-Caughnawaga Agency -Petition signed by the inhabitants of the Doncaster Township requesting the abolition of the Indian reserve in the township, Library and Archives Canada. 14-Attorney-General for Quebec v. Attorney-General for Canada. Re Indian Lands (sub nom. Star Chrome Mining) (1920), 56 D.L.R. 373 (P.C.) at 375, 4 C.N.L.C. 238 page 240. 15-Ibid 3 16-An Act respecting lands set apart for Indians, S.Q. 1922, c.37, s.1. 17-24-31 LAC, Oka agency -Lake of Two Mountains -dispute between the band and the Seminary of St. Sulpice as to who holds title to the land in the Seigniory, 1853-1920, Microfilm reel C-11138
-Douglas Leighton, "PENNEFATHER, RICHARD THEODORE," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pennefather_richard_theodore_9E.html. 19-20-21-56-P. B. Waite, "POPE, Sir JOSEPH," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pope_joseph_15E.html.
-Douglas Leighton, "PENNEFATHER, RICHARD THEODORE," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 5, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pennefather_richard_theodore_9E.html. 21-Ibid 19
-LAC reel c-11224, consulted on March 2014 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem& rec_nbr=2082318&lang=eng&rec_nbr_list=2082319,2082318
-An Act respecting Indians and Indian Lands, taken from Christian Aboriginal Infrastructure Developments website-, accessed June 2, 2017 http://caid.ca/http://caid.ca/IndLanAct1860.pdf Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale 24-Ibid 17 25-Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests for the Province of Ontario, For the Year ending 31st October, 1928. Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 1929. pp. 7-8. Retrieved 4 October 2013. https://archive.org/stream/reportofminister192730ontauoft#page/n150/mode/1up
-LAC, Microfilm reel C-11224, HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1954, 222 pages 27-Usufruct is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed a jurisdiction that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus: Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it.
-Richard H. Bartlett, Indian Reserves in Quebec, ISBN 0-888880-140-8, 1984, 44 pages.
-St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R. 1886 CanLII 30, 13 Ont. App. R. 148 (20 April 1886), Court of Appeal (Ontario, Canada) -(1885), 10 O.R. 196
-St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen[1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888)
-"Ontario-Manitoba Boundary Case". 22 July 1884. Retrieved 18 January 2013. -"Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889, 52-53 Vict., c. 28 (U.K.)". 12 August 1889. Retrieved 18 January 2013. -The Ontario Mining Company Limited and The Attorney General for the Dominion of Canada v The Attorney General for the Province of Ontario [1902] UKPC 46, [1903] AC 73 (12 November 1902) (on appeal from Canada)as approved by An Act for the settlement of certain questions between the Governments of Canada and Ontario respecting Indian Reserve Lands, S.C. 1924, c. 48 and The Indian Lands Act, 1924, S.O. 1924, c. 15 -Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Act, S.C. 1988, c. 39 , with corresponding provincial approval in the Indian Lands Agreement Confirmation Act, 1989, S.O. 1989, c. 26 (repealed in error by the Legislation Act, 2006, s. 98(3), as enacted by the Access to Justice Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 21, Sch. F , and subsequently reenacted by the Indian Lands Agreement (1986) Confirmation Act, 2010, S.O. 2010, c. 1, Sch. 10 )
-St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company v The Queen[1888] UKPC 70, [1888] 14 AC 46 (12 December 1888) 31-Ibid 17 Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale
-MINERAL RIGHTS ON INDIAN RESERVES IN ONTARIO RICHARD H. BARTLETT, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W0, 1983.
-CANLI website, Canada, -, accessed June 2, 2017 https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1887/1887canlii3/1887canlii3.html
-Bradford Morse, Aboriginal Peoples and the Law, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Feb 15, 1985, page 58. 35-Ibid 19.
-LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (222 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95,452-1.
-Burthen: etymology: the terms that which is borne with difficulty; obligation; carrying capacity.
-HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN LANDS FOR INDIANS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.1853-1934, LAC, MIKAN no. 2082318, reel C-11224, (222 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2457. File number: 95,452-1.
-CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BUY THE DONCASTER RESERVE AND THE SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT WITH THE SQUATTERS WHO HAD OCCUPIED IT, 1897-1905, LAC, MIKAN no. 2083454, reel C-11172, (301 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2163 File Part 2A. File number: 34,070.
-L'Avenir du Nord, French Canadian newspaper from BAnQ, consulted on 17 May 2015: http://collections.banq.qc.ca:81/jrn03/avenirdunord/src/1904/02/11/164429_1904-02- 11.pdf 43-53-E. Brian Titley, "McKENNA, JAMES ANDREW JOSEPH," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mckenna_james_andrew_joseph_14E.html. Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale
-Manifolded: old term designing having many, several folds, layers: exposing a complexity.
-Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890: In Two Volumes, Volume 1, Editor, Chamberlain, Printer of the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Ottawa, 1891.
-Ste Lucie, Doncaster: Tioweró:ton archives 1851-1921 from Eric Pouliot's book online at Library and Archives Canada available online: http://epe.lac- bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/eric_pouliot- thisdale/ste_lucie/Ste_Lucie_Doncaster_Tioweroton_archives_1851_to_1921.pdf 47-Source mainly used for this Chapter: CAUGHNAWAGA AGENCY -PETITION FROM THE INDIAN OF STE LUCIE OF DONCASTER FOR THE SURVEY OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND ON THE RESERVE.1873-1890, LAC, MIKAN no. 2062876, reel C-11234, (49 items), RG10. Volume/box number: 2425. File number: 107,786.
-"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement, Canadian Parliament, 1892, from Stanford University Library.
-Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door, Kahnawake weekly paper, "Pinsonneault: Indian agent for Sault St. Louis and Two Mountains", Kahnawake, July 22, 2016. 50-Report of the Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada, a report from the Laval Normal School for the scholastic 1870-71, from the Minister of Public Instruction, a chapter entitled "Extracts from Reports of Schools, managed from 1869-70", From University of Michigan.
-N. Hindsley takes seat in Calgary". Vol XXXII No. 16. Edmonton Bulletin. January 20, 1933. pp. 1-2.
-"Calgary Doctor Gets Federal Appointment". Vol 58, No. 87. Winnipeg Free Press. December 14, 1932. p. 1. 53 Ibid 43
-Peter Oliver, "MEREDITH, EDMUND ALLEN," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 8, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/meredith_edmund_allen_12E.html. 55-Source: Wikipedia-, accessed May 3, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gerow_Murphy 56-Ibid 19 Archives and history of Tiowero: ton's creation Phone: 514 243-3888, Email: ericpthisdale@hotmail.com Conducted for the Kanesatake community Website: http://epouliotrecherchiste.webs.com/welcome.htm 2017, by Eric Pouliot-Thisdale
-David J. Hall, "SIFTON, Sir CLIFFORD," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed May 22, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sifton_clifford_15E.html.
-An analysis of court case involving Innus of Uashaunnuat (Innus de Uashat et de Mani-Utenam) c. Compagnie minière IOC inc. (Iron Ore Company of Canada), 2016 QCCS 5133, exposing several proofs and citations of the Doncaster Archives depicted and transcribed from microfilm reel: BAC, RG10, volume 2163, file 34070, pt.2A, reel.
C-11172. Consulted online on May 2016: file:///C:/Users/HP/Documents/DONCASTER_COURT%20mentioning%20several%20c ourt%20cases%20of%201904%20and%20squatters%20petittions%202.pdf Sources: An analysis of court case involving Innus of Uashaunnuat (Innus de Uashat et de Mani-Utenam) v. Mining Company IOC inc. (Iron Ore Company of Canada), 2016 QCCS 5133, exposing several citations of the Doncaster Archives depicted and transcribed from microfilm reel C-11172. 58
Compagnie minière IOC inc. (Iron Ore Company of Canada), 2016 QCCS 5133, exposing several proofs and citations of the Doncaster Archives depicted and transcribed from microfilm reel: BAC, RG10, volume 2163, file 34070, pt.2A, reel. C-11172. Consulted online on May 2016: file:///C:/Users/HP/Documents/DONCASTER_COURT%20mentioning%20several%20court%20cases%20of %201904%20and%20squatters%20petittions%202.pdf

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