BEARING ON THE

DISCUSSION

RESPECTING THE

Northern and Western Houndaries

OF THE

PROVINCE OF ONTARIO,

INCLUDING THE PRINCIPAL EVIDENCE SUPPOSED TO BE EITHER FOR OR
AGAINST THE CLAIMS OF THE PROVINCE.

Compiled by Direction of the Government of Ontario;

WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES.

TORONTO:

PRINTED BY HUNTER, ROSE & CO., 25 WELLINGTON ST. WEST
1878.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE.

L-STATUTES

Act confirming the Hudson's Bay Company's Charter for seven years, 1690.....

Quebec Act, 1774....

The Constitutional Act, 1791..

Act extending the Jurisdiction of the Canadian Courts of Justice, 1803 ....

1821....

Act regulating the Fur Trade, &c., 1821

The British North America Act, 1867...

IL-TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, &c

Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye, 1632

Breda, 1667.

Nimeguen, 1678

Neutrality, 1686 ....

(Provisional) concerning America, 1687

of Ryswick, 1697....

1-11

1

3

4

4

6

10

10

11-24

11

12

12

13

15

15

Report of Committee of the Executive Council relating thereto, 1850 22

The Hudson's Bay Company's Charter, 1670......

License of Exclusive Trade to the Hudson's Bay Company, 1821...

V. OFFICIAL AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BOUNDARIES

OF CANADA..

French Official Descriptions

28

29-30

Boundaries between Canada and Louisiana..

Descriptions in English Commissions after the Treaty of Paris.....

Boundary Line between New York and Canada, 1763...

PAGE.

42

43

52

53

VI.-DOCUMENTS RESPECTING EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS AND EX-

PLORATIONS

Memoir of the Marquis de Denonville on the French limits. . . . . .

56-103

56

Taking possession of the countries of the Indian nations of the North and West

by Sub-delegate Saint Lusson, 1571..

61

Record of the taking possession of the country of the Upper Mississippi, 1680 62

French Correspondence, 1697-1747 ..

63

Discoveries of the Verendryes, 1728-1750

68

The Chevalier de Bougainville on the French Posts, 1757

80

Early French population of Green Bay and Prairie des Chiens-Reports, &c.,

of the Michigan Commissioners................

Claims and Memorials of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1700-1714.................

VIII.-REMARKS ON EARLY MAPS

104-133

104

117

119

123

M. Bellin on the Map of North America........

133-140

133

X.-CANADIAN ENTERPRISE IN THE NORTH-WEST AFTER THE CON-

QUEST: 1761-1819........

164-193

Extracts from Henry's Travels in Canada and the Indian Territories, 1761-1776 164

from Carver's Travels....

168

Extent of Country which the North-West Company occupied....

169

Official recognition of the North-West Company....

178

Extracts from Mackenzie's History of the Fur Trade

179

from Henry's Journal of Travel in the North-West, &c., 1799-1816.. 183

from Pike's Travels.....

188

XI.-LEGAL OPINIONS ON THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S CHARTER.. 193–202

PAGE.

Sir Arthur Pigott, Sergeant Spankie and Lord Brougham, 1816

Sir Richard Bethell and Sir Henry S. Keating, 1857

DeReinhard's Case, 1818....

Case of Brown and Boucher, 1818...

Connolly v. Woolrich, 1867...

Memorandum from Chief Justice Draper, 1857....

XII.-JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS....

Limits of Tadoussac-Ordinance of Intendant Hocquart, 1733....

McLellan's Case, 1818....

203-235

....203

207

227

228

230

XIII.-DOCUMENTS AND ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING ONTARIO'S CLAIMS, 235–278

Paper relative to the Boundaries, by Chief Justice Draper, 1857.........

Memorandum from the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, Commissioner of Crown

Lands, 1857..

235

240

243

Mr. W. McD. Dawson's Evidence before Committee of the Legislative As-

sembly,.....

Memorandum by S. J. Dawson, Esq., M. P.P. for Algoma, .

XIV.-DOCUMENTS AND ARGUMENTS OPPOSING ONTARIO'S CLAIMS.... 279-290

Discoveries and national rivalries in and around Hudson's Bay (Oldmixon's

Account)..

279

Hudson's Bay Company's Statement of Title, after the Treaty of Ryswick.. 285

Statement of Rights, 1850...

General De Montcalm on Corruption among Canadian Officials, 1759.....

Extracts from Franklin's Letters to his son..

294

296

Colonization of the Illinois-Sir W. Johnson to the Lords of Trade, 1776. 298

Debate on the Quebec Bill in the House of Commons, 1774 ....

Lands, west of 88°50′, patented by the Province of Canada before Confeder-

ation..

XVI.-OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTS, 1869-1874......... 323-347

Correspondence between Dominion Ministers and the Colonial Office, 1869.. 323

Negotiations between the Dominion and Ontario Governments, 1871–2.. 340

Provisional Conventional Boundaries of Ontario, 1874...

XVIL-SUPPLEMENTARY MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS

...

347

349-419

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE BOUNDARIES, AND TO THE INDIAN NATIONS

AND FRENCH POSTS OF CANADA, &c., 1671-1878...

348-391

Ogilby on the Boundaries of Canada, Labrador, &c., 1671..

Estotiland, Nova Britannia, Terra Laboratoris, Corterealis

348

348

The taking possession of Hudson's Bay and of the Northern lands and seas,

by Albanel and St. Simon, 1672

348-9