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mines, minerals, fisheries, &e., of Rupert's Land. The territory to be reckoned 
one of his Majesty’s plantations or colonies in America, and the Governor and 
Company to be the Lords Proprietors of the same for ever. 
“On the 12th June, 1811, the Hudson’s Bay Company made a grant of lands to 
Lord Selkirk included within the following boundaries :—* All that tract of land 
or territory bounded by an imaginary line running as follows, that is to say, 
beginning on the western shores of the Lake Winnipeg at a point in 52° 30! 
north latitude, and thence running due west to the Lake Winnepego-sis, then in a 
southerly direction through the said lake so as to strike its western shore in lati- 
tude 52°, then due west to the place where the 52° intersects the western branch 
of Red River, the Assinniboine River, then due south from that point of intersec- 
tion to the height of land, which separates the waters running into Hudson’s Bay 
from those of the Missouri and Mississippi, then in an easterly direction along the 
said height of land to the source of the Winnipeg River (meaning by such last 
named river the principal branch of the waters which unite in Lake Seiganagah,) 
thence along the main stream of these waters, and the middle of the several lakes 
through which they flow, to the mouth of the Winnipeg River, and thence in a 
northerly direction through the middle of Lake Winnipeg to the place of beginning.” 
Ross, in his;‘‘ Red River Settlement, its Rise, Progress, and Present State,” 
introduces a treaty made between Lord Selkirk and certain Indian chiefs, Crees 
and Saulteaux (or Ojibways,) on the 18th July, 1817, in which the chiefs agree to 
give unto the king, for the use of the Earl of Selkirk, a considerable tract of land 
on the Assinniboine and Red Rivers for the quit-rent of 100 lbs. of tobacco, to 
be paid annually to the chiefs and warriors of the Cree and Saulteaux tribes then 
occupying the country. 
“In 1857 Peguis, animmigrant from Pigeon River, Lake Superior, at Red River, 
sent a letter to the Aborigines’ Protection Society, London, complaining of the 
non-fulfilment of this treaty. The following extract from the letter sent by 
Peguis is published in the Blue Book:— 
“ Many winters ago, in 1812, the lands along the Red River, in the Assinniboine 
country on which I and the tribe of Indians of whom I am chief then lived, were 
taken possession of, without permission of myself or my tribe, by a body of 
white settlers. For the suke of peace, I, as the represem.ative of my tribe, allowed 
them to remain on our lands on their promising that we should be well paid for 
them by a great chief, who was to follow them. This great chief, whom we call 
the silver chief (the Earl of Selkirk), arrived in the spring after the war between 
the North-West and Hudson’s Bay Companies (1817). He told us he wanted 
land for some of his countrymen, who were very poor in their own country ; and 
I consented, on the condition that he paid well for my tribe’s land, he could have 
from the confluence of the Assinniboine to near Maple Sugar Point on the Red 
River (a distance of twenty to twenty-four miles), following the course of the 
river, and as far back on each side of the river as a horse can be seen under 
(easily distinguished). The Silver Chief told us he had little with which to pay 
us for our lands when he made this arrangement, in consequence of the troubles 
of the North-West Company. He, however, asked us what we most required for 
the present, and we told him we would be content till the following year, when he 
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