as Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, or as Chief 

 Commissioner for their negotiation. 



Treaties 1 and 2 were negotiated in 1871, by Commissioner 

 Wemyss M. Simpson, assisted by Lieutenant-Governor Archi- 

 bald, the former at the Stone Fort on the 3rd of August ; and 

 the latter on the 21st of the same month at Manitoba Post. 

 Treaty 1 embraced in round terms the territory included in 

 Old Manitoba, and the latter, that covered by the extension 

 of the Province to its present boundaries, with a small portion 

 of Southern Assiniboia, 



Treaty No. 3 was made on the 3rd of October, 1873, at the 

 Northwest Angle, by Commissioners, Lieutenant Governor 

 Morris, Joseph A. N. Provencher, and Simon James Dawson, 

 with the Saulteaux tribe of the Ojibway Indians inhabiting the 

 southern part of what is now called New Ontario. 



Treaty No. 4 was concluded on 15th September, 1874, 

 between Commissioners Lieutenant-Governor Morris, D. 

 Laird, and William J. Christie, and the Cree, Saulteaux and 

 other Indians inhabiting the territory mainly included now in 

 the District of Assiniboia, but on the east running as far north 

 as the western extremity of Lake Winnipegosis. 



Treaty No. 5 was negotiated on the 20th September, 1875, 

 at Berens River on Lake Winnipeg, between Commissioners 

 Lieutenant-Governor Morris and Hon. James McKay, and the 

 Salteaux and Swampy Crees in the country around the north 

 end of Lake Winnipeg, and, by later adhesions, with those 

 inhabiting both sides of the Saskatchewan River as far west 

 as Cumberland House. 



Treaty No. 6 was concluded near Carlton, on the 23rd and 

 29th of August, respectively, and at Fort Pitt on the 9th of 

 September, in the year 1876, between Commissioners Lieut.- 

 Governor Morris, Hon. James McKay and William ,J. 

 Christie, with the Plain and Wood Crees, and other Indians, 

 inhabiting the country west of Treaties 4 and 5, to the Rocky 

 Mountains, north to the Athabasca River and south to the- Red 

 Deer River. 



Treaty No. 7 was negotiated on the 22nd September, 1877. 

 at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, between Commis- 

 sioners Lieutenalit-Governor Laird and Lieutenant- Cdilonel 

 James F. McLeod, Commissioner of the North- West Mounted 

 Police, and the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, Sarcee and Stony 

 Indians inhabiting the country west of Treaty 4 to the Rocky 



