- CA ON00156 TR/1718
- File
- 1940-1969
File contains three newspaper articles regarding the terms of a lease of Mohawk lands by flour milling interests in Shannonville.
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File contains three newspaper articles regarding the terms of a lease of Mohawk lands by flour milling interests in Shannonville.
Indian: Mohawks History / Susan Claus
File contains a typescript history of the Mohawk of Tyendinaga 1784-1960.
Claus, Susan
File contains a typescript poem entitled "Peace to the Nations and Praise to the Lord" by Teressa Brant. Also contains a manuscript poem composed by an unidentified Mohawk woman for Reverend Cyrus Allison, a pioneer Methodist missionary to the Mohawk of Tyendinaga. The name Gertrude F. Clarke was associated with this item by Gerry Boyce.
This file contains correspondence from Ralph Mills regarding a provision in his late wife's (Thora R. Mills) to erect a fence around a grave-yard on the Tyendenaga Indian Reserve.
Indian claim : Foresters' Island
File contains a newspaper article concerning the Tyendinaga Mohawk claim to Foresters' Island in the Bay of Quinte, in 1968.
File contains a printed bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, entitled "Captain John Deserontyou and the Mohawk Settlement at Deseronto" by M. Eleanor Herrington. The bulletin was published in 1921 and recounts the history of the early settlement of Tyendinaga. Also contains a letter to the editor of the Ontario Intelligencer explaining the origins of Captain John Deseronto [Deserontyou's] name.
Herrington, Margaret Eleanor
Assignment by a Grade 13 student.
Vollick, Colin
File of research materials relating to First Nations in Eastern Ontario
Outline of Professor Donald B. Smith's forthcoming book The Blind Spot: Canada and the "Indians" in Canada's First Century. A Study of non-Indigenous Canadians' perspectives on the First Nations from 1867 to the White Paper of 1969, with copies of some research materials including:
Smith, Donald B.
Indian Clergyman, Robert Glenn Brant, 1960
File contains newspaper clippings about Robert Glendon Brant becoming an ordained priest of the Anglican Church at the Christ Church on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory at Deseronto in 1960.
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory Schools
File contains a newspaper article concerning the life of Molly Brant, sister of Thayendanegea [Joseph Brant]. Also contains a newspaper article on the Mohawk settlement of Tyendinaga and its history to 1960.
The file contains a photocopy of an article taken from The Mohawk Drummer, Spring 2004 issue, titled Forester's Island in 1904 about the dedication ceremony held August 27, 1904 for the Forester's Orphanage on the Island the work of Dr. Oronhyatekha.
This file contains a photocopy of a deed for land to John Culbertson in May 1886, in the Mohawk Village Indian Reserve on the Bay of Quinte, inherited from his grandfather Captain John Deserontyon.
File contains several newspaper and magazine articles concerning the life and career of Dr. Oronhyatekha, Mohawk chief, physician and a principal figure in the International Order of Foresters.
Hastings Militia : 3rd Battalion Roll, Tyendinaga Reserve, 1862
File contains a completed printed form entitled "Limits of Company," which lists members of Capt. Roberts' militia company, Third Battalion Hastings Regiment, from Tyendinaga Reserve in 1862. Members are listed by rank, age and marital status.
Indian Church – Christ Church 1798
File contains a newspaper article printed in 1965 about Christ Church on the Tyendinaga Reserve, as well as typed information about the church.
Indian Mohawk Reserve Assorted articles 1959-1969
File contains various newspaper clippings about the Tyendinaga Reserve being in responsible for their own affairs, Mohawk Band disputing breaking a 139 year old land lease, Robert M. Hill being elected as Chief, etc.
File contains a newspaper clipping about Chief John R. Brant being re-elected as chief in 1966 and Carl E. Brant, Ross Brant, and Earl Hill being elected to Reserve Council. There is also information about a chain being donated to Zone F.3, Royal Canadian Legion by the Mohawk Comrades of Branch 280 in honour of the new Zone Commander Earl J. Brant.
File contains a newspaper clipping about the Tyendinaga Mohawk Council holding its inaugural meeting in 1966.
File contains miscellaneous newspaper articles from the Kingston Whig-Standard about the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, such as an article about former Chief Melville Hill, Bill Brant joining the RCMP, interviews with MP Robert Temple about the Reserve, farming, Chief John Brant being elected, etc.