A certified reproduction of the "[Shannonville] Government Survey for...Commissioner of Crown Lands. ” The area includes; southeast of the Salmon River and Lots # 5-6 on the broken front of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Dated April 6, 1851.
This reproduction was made on June 5, 1972 and approved by the Deputy Registrar.
"Tyendinaga Township, Map # 2052" of the "Tyendinaga Indian Reserve No. 38, [at the] area of right-of-way widening on York Road South East of Shannonville." Produced in 1975. Scale: 1 inch = 100 ft. Surveyed by D. L. Hume, O. L. S.
Map # 2052 is filed in Registry Office, Belleville, as 2099. Map # 2052 in Hastings County. Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.
This collection comprises documents received in response to an Access to Information request addressed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) by the Corporation of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, in 2008. The request asked for copies of documentation submitted as part of the Culbertson Tract land claim of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and upon which the decision to allow the claim had been based.
The documents in this collection are all photocopies of materials located in public archives in Canada. The materials range in date from 1779 to 1959 and record the interactions between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the British and Canadian governments, in relation to lands, from the time of their departure from the Mohawk Valley to the mid-twentieth century.
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.
Colour photographs taken by Bobby-Jo Morris of two events: 1) Protests on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory concerning missing and murdered Indigenous women, 4 March 2014 (16 photographs and four pages of explanatory notes) 2) Flooding in Foxboro, Belleville and Millton, Ontario in April 2014 (30 annotated photographs)
Flyers for candidates in the 2013 election for the Council of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte: 1) Mohawk People's Party "Longhair" (R. Donald Maracle, Manson Loft, Christine Claus, Doug Maracle and Keith Sero) 2) Shawn Brant.
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.
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.
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 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.
File contains a newspaper clipping that includes an article about Chief Melville Hill of the Tyendinaga Reserve speaking in Winnipeg at a Metis conference about the democratic condition on his reserve. There is also an article about a fundraiser to save the Allan Macpherson House.
