196 J. H. Lefroy on the Indian Population of British America. 
With respect to the Indians in Canada proper, it is stated in a 
very interesting report concerning them, (Journals of House “ 
Assembly, 1844-5, Appendix 2,) that the earliest document r 
ceived by the Government, which contains any detailed na 
ment relative to the tribes, is one prepared by Major-General 
Darling, Military Secretary to Lord Dalhousie, in 1828. The 
total number of Indians who then came under the observation, 
and within the influence of the Government, in both Provinces, 
did not exceed 18,000. Iam indebted to Col S. P. Jarvis, late 
Indian Superintendent, for the following authentic returns of their 
more recent numbers. In 1835, the number of resident Indians 
receiving presents, as ‘they are improperly called, being rather an- 
are nie rent ¢ charges upon the soil of Upper Canada, was stated 
as fol 
TABLE L 
Boys | Girls 
Men.| Women. Jund’r}und’r}Total 
15. 15. 
deine or Six Nation —s including the Mo- 
hawks on the en a of Q g Par 543} 545 me 
Chivnee or Ny yan -| 25 25 Pees 98 
Chi 434) 438 | 313] 9276/1441 
Chippewas, called fogan pay Gee eee Ose 2 ck 5 ae 208 246 157| 125| 736 
s, Delawar or Lenne-le- PRADO Gir cs as <a 44 51 36| 26] 158 
ee Indians ; . 
78) 79 | 65 44) 266 
l1397| 1566 |1114/1035 5082 
The following table contains a statement in detail of the In- 
dians in Upper Canada in 1838, compiled from a return made in 
answer to enquiries of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
She Glenelg.) ‘The corresponding numbers in 1844 and 1846, 
where they are given under the same denomination, are added 
plata the returns of the Indian Department. 
TABLE I. 
_— tif ie a The details are from the very nile returns of 1838, 
st and where corresponding totals are not given for the years 
iat FT EPH 1846, it arises yp es amore general form Aubin face grtinte in those 
18388. .]1846. 
DENOMINATION. | | Wop Under is. 7 | a8, 
a Men. |en. |Boys.|Girls.| To 1. | Total. 
: CHIPPEWAS. eke sed ga ES ee 
1/St. Clair Rapids... 1138] 124] 84 
2|Walpole Island or Chenail Ecarté...... 47} 60} 28! 389) 176 1129* 
3|R. au Sabl Herehs esse cia diat 1 8 10 Ate 
4\Up.S se _ Saginong Pred eine 80} 92 ae 52 
The same in soviet SESE 288 ‘at 130 684 
* Pottawatomies and Ottawas are here included. 
