| The original owners of the land, if you will, in what is now southwestern Ontario, were the indigenous Huron, the Petun and the Neutral Indians before the Five (later Six) Nations Iroquois entered the territory in the mid-1600s to attack, conquer, decimate and displace them and steal their land.
In the late 1690s, the Ojibwa Mississauga Indians drove the Five Nations Iroquois from what is now southwestern Ontario basically displacing the Five Nations Iroquois from land they had stolen.
In 1701, according to the Nanfan deed, the Five (later Six) Nations Iroquois quit claim to and surrendered the land in what is now southwestern Ontario to the British.
In 1763, the Britsh Crown issued a Royal Proclamation in which the Crown took "Sovereigny, Protection and Dominion" over Indian Territory in North America. The aboriginals liked it so much, it is now embedded in the 1982 Canadian Constitution Act.
On May 22, 1784 the British paid for and bought the land in what is now southwestern Ontario from the Mississauga Indians.
Later, on October 25, 1784, Governor Haldimand issued his proclamation, which allowed Six Nations people to enter, occupy and use a strip of Crown land along the Grand River.
The Crown did not give the Six Nations title that land and Canadian courts have said so.
So who owns the land along the Grand River?
It is not likely the Six Nations. |
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