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Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area
The Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area covers 9 million acres of land in eastern Ontario. The area is historically unceded land.
The Algonquins of Ontario are a group of ten Indigenous communities in eastern Ontario: the Antoine, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, the Bonnechere, the Greater Golden Lake, the Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini (Bancroft), the Mattawa/North Bay, the Ottawa, the Shabot Obaadjiwan (Sharbot Lake), the Snimikobi (Ardoch), and the Whitney and Area.[1]
Negotiations
History
In response to British land grabs, the Algonquins first submitted a petition to the governor general in 1772 asking them to consider the people who already lived on the land when taking and selling parcels. However, the British Government did not cease, and land was continually developed by the Crown without input from the Algonquin representative body. In 1982, the Constitution Act in Canada ratified the "Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada," which included the potential to open up new land treaties.[2] In 1983, the Algonquins submitted a petition to Edward Shreyer, the then governor of Canada, to regain the land around the Mattawa River.[3]
In 1991, The Province of Ontario accepted the claim for negotiations, and the Government of Canada accepted the claim in 1992. Negotiations for the Settlement Area officially began in 1994 when the Statement of Shared Objectives was signed by all parties.[4] As of 2020, negotiations were ongoing.[5]
Logistics
In negotiations, land within the territory is broken into three categories: Proposed Settlement Lands, Other Algonquin Interests on Crown Land, and Recommended Provincial Park/Park Addition.[6]
Area
The settlement area includes parts of the following counties: United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Gledarry; Unites Counties of Prescott and Russell; County of Lanark; County of Renfrew; County of Frontenac; District of Nirissing; County of Haliburton; County of Hastings.
Although there are several smaller protected parks within the Settlement Area, the majority of Protected Land is in Algonquin Provincial Park, which spans 7,635 square kilometers.[7]
Alongside numerous flora and fauna, the park notably contains old-growth sugar maple, hemlock and yellow birch forests, which researchers have dated at up to 430 years old using ring counts, and up to 610 years old using estimation techniques.[8]
- ^ "Who are the Algonquins of Ontario? | Algonquins of Ontario". www.tanakiwin.com. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
- ^ "Constitution Act, 1982". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
- ^ "Algonquin Petition of 1983" (PDF).
- ^ "Shared Objectives, 1994" (PDF).
- ^ "Treaty Negotiations Update | Algonquins of Ontario". www.tanakiwin.com. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Algonquins of Ontario Treaty Negotiations Lands Proposals 2020–Settlement Area" (PDF).
- ^ "Welcome to Algonquin Provincial Park". www.ontarioparks.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ M. Henry; P. Quinby (2008). "A Preliminary Survey of Old-Growth Forest Landscapes on the West Side of Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario" (PDF). ancientforest.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 30, 2023.
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