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The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada.It is focused on land along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, a 385,000-hectare (950,000-acre) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for ...
[2] The land, situated on the German Company Tract, a subset of land within the Haldimand Tract known as Block 2, was the earliest in the County to be settled by non-Indigenous peoples. [3]: xiii [4] The group included Bishop Benjamin Eby, who planned to start a new Mennonite colony in what was then called Upper Canada.
Waterloo Park is an urban park situated in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on land within Block 2 of the Haldimand Tract.Spanning 44.9 hectares (111 acres) within the Uptown area of Waterloo, it opened in 1893 and is the oldest park in the city.
The tract had originally been purchased from the Six Nations Indians by the British Crown in 1784; it was acquired in 1798 by Richard Beasley and two partners who decided to resell land, in smaller parcels. [13] The Tract included most of Block 2 of the previous Grand River Indian Lands. [1] Many of the first farms were least four hundred acres ...
Haldimand promised to resettle the Mohawk near the Bay of Quinte, on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario, in present-day Ontario, Canada. Haldimand purchased from other First Nations a tract 12 mi (19 km) by 13 mi (21 km) on the Bay of Quinte, which he granted to the Mohawk.
The Haldimand Proclamation was a decree that granted land to the Mohawk (or Kanien'kehà:ka) (Mohawk nation) who had served on the British side during the American Revolution. The decree was issued by the Governor of the Province of Quebec , Frederick Haldimand , on October 25, 1784, three days after the Treaty of Fort Stanwix was signed ...
The tract included most of Block 2 of the previous Grand River Indian lands. Many of the first farms were least 400 acres in size. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The German Company, represented by Daniel Erb and Samuel Bricker, had acquired the land from previous owner Richard Beasley; he had gotten into financial difficulties after buying the land in 1796 from ...
[2] [3] The Haldimand Tract, which consists of ten kilometres of land on both sides of the Grand River, was promised to the Six Nations of the Grand River in 1784 by the Haldimand Proclamation. [9] In 1798, Six Nations leader Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) surrendered six blocks of land from the Haldimand Tract to the British Crown. [10]