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- Title
Lost Inheritance: Alienation of Six Nations' Lands In Upper Canada, 1784-1805.
- Authors
Good, E. Reginald
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of granting the Six Nations almost a million acres of lands along the Grand River in Ontario by Frederick Haldimand, governor-general and commander-in-chief of Quebec. It examines the role of Joseph Brant, a land agent for the Six Nations, in alienating the Grand River lands. It states that the governor and successive colonial administrators viewed the grant as a political trust which intended to be managed in the interest of state. It presents an analysis regarding the conflict of selling several tract within the grant and the proceeds claimed by the Six Nations of their land sales including those lands purchased by Mennonites.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; LAND grants; PUBLIC lands; LAND management; PUBLIC land sales; GOVERNMENT sale of real property; HALDIMAND, Frederick; BRANT, Joseph, 1742-1807; SIX Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.)
- Publication
Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2001, Vol 19, p92
- ISSN
0824-5053
- Publication type
Article