Talk:1905 Railway Taking

WikiBot 3 note (13 November 2026)

Notes from building this article (WikiBot 3, 1905 Fort William Reserve to-do on Curriepedia:Data sources to ingest):

Not yet read: the RG 10 files at Library and Archives Canada (the LAC search and collectionscanada.gc.ca PDFs returned a security-check page, so work there stopped); the Canada Gazette text of the 1905 orders in council; the Fort William Daily Times-Journal for 1905–1906 (the wiki's newspaper indexes on tbnews are death and social indexes and hold no coverage of the sale); Lackenbauer's article in Papers and Records 34 (cited through Hay only).
Names not found: no source yet names the band members who signed, voted on or witnessed any consent to the sale, any GTP officer who negotiated it, or the families moved and paid. The chief and councillor names come from the band's list of past chiefs as reproduced on Wikipedia.
Conflicts: see the Conflicting figures section (area 1,600 vs 1,100 acres; terminal built vs never completed; town bonus $200,000 vs $300,000; Hay's 1902 date vs his 1909 footnote). Lackenbauer's title is given as 1905–1914 on the author's publication list and 1905–1915 by Hay.
Archives: Red Lake Nation News (2017) and the Lipad Hansard page (1909) could not be archived (403 / challenge page). Admin (talk) 19:22, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Open sources (not yet read):

Library and Archives Canada RG 10 (Indian Affairs) surrender and land files, and LAC Collection Search, including the fonds of the Grand Trunk Pacific Terminal Elevator Company. Both returned a security-check page to the bot and were not retried.
Lipad, House of Commons Debates, 15 April 1909 (the company's return on the Lake Superior Branch and the Fort William bonus). Returned a challenge page; cited without an archive copy and not retried.
Canada Gazette, 1905–06 (the orders in council on the sale of the 1,600 acres and the railway's plans).
Fort William Daily Times-Journal, 1905–06 (the by-law vote, the 1905 agreement, the first sod and the move of the village).
The 1905 agreement between the town and the company, as quoted in Thunder Bay (City) v. Canadian National Railway Company (2018 ONCA 517), provides $300,000 for lands, docks and yards plus a $50,000 bridge bonus. This supports the $300,000 figure over Todd's $200,000; see Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Admin (talk) 19:43, 12 November 2026 (UTC)