Report of Commissioners re adhesion to treaty no. 9, for the year 1930 .: Z1-1929/2-2E-PDF

“The undersigned commissioners appointed under and by virtue of a commission dated the 30th day of May, 1929, in accordance with a minute of a meeting of the Committee of the Privy Council approved by His Excellency, the Governor General, on the same date, to negotiate with the Ojibway and other Indians in northern Ontario an extension of James Bay Treaty No. 9, respectfully submit this, their second and final report. The commissioners made a report dated August 30, 1929, upon the question of the extinguishment of the Indian title on the last remaining area unceded in the province of Ontario, if not in the whole of Canada, and a reference to such report, which may be found on pages 20 to 23 of the Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the year 1929, discloses the situation as regards the area involved, defines the purpose of the negotiations with the Indians and details the work accomplished. The area in question, generally speaking, comprises all that portion of the province of Ontario lying north of the Albany river and extending to Manitoba on the west and the Hudson bay and James bay on the north and east, comprising approximately 128,000 square miles, and containing a number of important Indian trading posts or encampments where the Indians barter their furs, enjoy for a few weeks each season a limited communal life and receive their treaty payments”--p. [1].

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