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McKee's Purchase
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Painting and photo of the painting by contributor Hal Sherman - Posted March, 2014
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 |
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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.
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> Posted October 31, 2015
Somewhere I have read the Minutes of the Council held at Detroit May 19th 1790, which resulted in the McKee Purchase (Treaty no. 2). The text of the Treaty is published, but where are the Minutes? Can anyone help me please. My interest is Sastaretsi.
Thank you, Charles Garrad (416)223-2752
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