Goulais Bay 15C was a
First Nation
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...
reserve
Reserve or reserves may refer to:
Places
* Reserve, Kansas, a US city
* Reserve, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish
* Reserve, Montana, a census-designated place in Sheridan County
* Reserve, New Mexico, a US vi ...
within
Prince Township, Ontario. This 5-acre tract of land was given to the
Batchewana First Nation of Ojibways The Batchewana First Nation of Ojibways ( oj, Obaajiwan Anishinaabek) is an Ojibway First Nation in northern Ontario. Their traditional lands run along the eastern shore of Lake Superior, from Batchawana Bay to Whitefish Island. They were reserved t ...
after
Whitefish Island
Whitefish Island is an island in the St. Marys River, just south of Sault Ste. Marie, in Ontario, Canada.
History
It was an ancestral fishing station to the Anishenabek of the Great Lakes region for over 2,000 years. It was reserved for the u ...
was expropriated from them in 1902. The land was sold by the band in 1956 for $3,600, and it ceased to be a reserve.
References
Communities in Algoma District
Ojibwe reserves in Ontario
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