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Niagara Land Purchases

Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009

Plaque Location

The Region of Niagara
The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake
On the north side of Castlereagh Street
between King and Davy streets

Coordinates: N 43 15.134 W 79 04.320

Plaque Text

To obtain land on which to settle Loyalists and dispossessed members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, Guy Johnson in May 1781 and John Butler in May 1784 negotiated treaties with representatives of the Mississauga and Chippewa of this region. The Crown thereby acquired title to a tract of land 6.4 km wide along the west bank of the Niagara River between Lakes Erie and Ontario. These two cessions were later confirmed by a third treaty negotiated by John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and certain Mississauga chiefs at Navy Hall in December 1792.

Related Ontario plaques
United Empire Loyalists
The Six Nations
Lieutenant-Colonel John Butler 1725-1796
John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806

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