Crawford Purchases
Crawford Purchases is a series of land negotiations in 1783.[1]
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- November 2018: The Crawford Purchases involved the transfer of land from the Mississauga to the Crown in exchange for clothing, guns, ammunition, and red cloth for coats. No formal written treaty documents or detailed descriptions of the lands survived from the Crawford Purchases negotiations. The Crawford Purchases resulted in the Mississauga being displaced from their traditional territory as Loyalist settlers occupied the region.[2]
- November 2020: The Crown initially believed the lands behind Rice Lake were included in the Crawford Purchases. The Rice Lake Mississaugas disputed the extent of the territory ceded during these 1783-84 transactions.[3]
- November 2021: The Crawford Purchases involved the acquisition of land north of Lake Ontario to settle refugees after the American War of Independence. These transactions are described as irregular and potentially invalid under the terms of the Royal Proclamation of 1763.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Crawford ‘Purchases’", Anishinabek News, 3 November 2021 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Land for goods: the Crawford Purchases", Anishinabek News, 8 November 2018 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "The Rice Lake purchase", Anishinabek News, 5 November 2020 (archived copy; original article).