McKee's Purchase

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009

Plaque Location

The Municipality of Chatham-Kent
In Blenheim, at Blenheim Memorial Park on Chatham Street South

Coordinates: N 42 19.953 W 81 59.496

Plaque Text

In May 1790 Alexander McKee, Deputy Agent of the British Indian Department, and the principal chiefs of the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa and Wyandot negotiated a treaty whereby the British Crown acquired title to what is now southwestern Ontario. This treaty completed the process begun with Niagara treaties of 1781 and 1784, with the result that most of the Ontario peninsula was soon opened to British and Loyalist settlement.

Related Ontario plaque
The Wyandot

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