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notary. The said Dame Olive St. Jules declared that she was unable to sign, on being
requested to do so by me, the notary, in the presence of Mr. Ignace alias Angus
Durocher, farmer, of the said Township of Dundee, necessary witness for the purposes
hereof, and in whose presence the said Dame Olive St. Jules gave her consent to these
presents; and the other parties to these presents, as well as the witness, signed with
me, the undersigned notary, these presents having been first read over.

(Signed) JULIA A. PEETS

ih ANTOINE PLAMONDON

yo ANGUS DUROCHIA
a GEORGE LONG
“ J. B. POUPARD J.-P.

A true copy of the minute hereof remaining in the office of the undersigned

notary.
J. B. POUPARD

INP

I Certify this document was received at the Registry Office of the County of
Huntingdon on the Seventeenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and Ninety
seven at Nine o’clock in the forenoon, and is recorded in Register B. vol. 21 page 229

under number 22150
EK. S. ELSWORTH

Deputy Registrar.

Know att Men spy rHese Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and
Principal men of The Chippewas of Lakes Huron and Simcoe resident on our Reserve
on Christian Island in the Georgian Bay in the Province of Ontario 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 claim and yield up unto Our
Sovereign Lady The Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, ALL AND SINGULAR,
that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in Hope
Island in the Georgian Bay and Province of Ontario containing by admeasurement
One Hundred acres be the same more or less and being composed of The one hundred
acres lying adjacent to the “ Light House” on the said “ Hope Island.”

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty Tur Queen, her
Heirs and Successors forever, in trust to Sell the same to such person or persons, and
upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most con-
ducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the Sale thereof,
shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be placed to
our credit and the interest thereon paid to us and our descendants as to the Indian

Department may seem best

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men-of the said Band of Indians do on
behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to
ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done,
in connection with the Sale of the said land and the disposal of the said money.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our
seals this 11th day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred:
and Ninety Seven
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the pre-

sence of
Davi J. ASSANCE

DOMINION OF CANADA,
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
CouNTY OF SIMCOE

To Wit:

CHIEF GEORGE COPEGOG
SOLOMON Mark

his
WILLIAM x KING
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Ex-Cuirr SAMUEL x ASSANCE
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JOSEPH KAKAKOUS
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PETER MONAGUE
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Louis x ONWAHTIN
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JOSEPH x ASSANCE
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JOHN BTE x ONWAHTIN
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FRANK x ONWALHTIN
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WELLINGTON ASSANCE
JOHN MONAGUE
JOSEPH COPPEGOG
his
WILLIAM x KADEGEDWON
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Frank Coprrecoa
ALEX NortTON
Jas. S. MONAGUE

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Personally appeared before me, Charles
MeGibbon of the Town of Penetanguish-
ene in the Province of Ontario Indian
Agent and George Copegog Chief of the

said Band of Indians.

AND the said Charles MceGibbon for himself saith :—
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male
members of the said Band of Indians of the Chippewas of Lakes Huron & Simcoe of
the full age of twenty-one years then present.
That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned
for that purpose and according to their Rules.
That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.
That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs.
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That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a
member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Sur-
render.

And the said George Copegog says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of
the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years
then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians
summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the
said George Copegog.

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a
habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land
mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said
meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the Deponents
Charles MeGibbon and George Cope-
gog at the Town of Penetanguishene
in the County of Simeoe this Ist day
of June A.D., 1897

JoHn A Arpaci
Judge of the County Court
of the County of Simcoe

Cuas McGIBBON
Chief Grorce Corrcoa

Accepted by the Governor in Council on the 19th June 1897.
JCHN J. McGEE
Clerk of the Privy Council.

Recorded 7th September 1897
Lib 148 Fol. 451
JosppH Popr
Dep. Registrar General of Canada.

No. 386.

THIS INDENTURE made the Seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and ninety seven IN PURSUANCE OF THE “REAL
PROPERTY CONVEYANCE ACT:”

BETWEEN Honourable William Norman Bole, one of Her Majesty’s Local Judges
of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and Arthur Wellesley Vowell of the City
of Victoria, Province of British Columbia, Esquire, hereinafter called the Grantors

of the First Part
AND
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, hereinafter called the Grantee
of the Second Part.

WITNESSETH that in consideration of Two hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00)
of lawful money of Canada now paid by the said Grantee to the said Grantor (the
receipt whereof is hereby by them acknowledged) they, the said Grantors DO GRANT
unto the said Grantee her successors and assigns forever.

ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate
lying and being part of Lot Two (2), Group Two (2), District of New Westminster,