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Notes After the arrival of the Europeans in the 17th century, the Ojibway economy, which had been based on hunting, fishing and gathering, expanded to include trapping for trade as well as for subsistence purposes. During the fur trade era, trading posts became part of the cycle of movements for Indian people, and some groups of Bands became associated with particular trading posts. The Ojibway people who traded primarily at the New Brunswick House posts at Brunswick Lake and Missinaibi Lake became known as the New Brunswick House Band (ancestors of Brunswick House First Nation people). The James Bay Treaty of 1905 — Treaty No. 9 was signed with the New Brunswick House Band on July 25th 1906. An Ontario Order-in-Council, dated February 13, 1907, confirmed a selection of Indian reserves, including New Brunswick House No. 76, which was set aside for the Band and surveyed at 17 280 acres. On June 1, 1925 the Ontario government established the Chapleau Game Preserve which surrounded (and did not explicitly exclude) the New Brunswick House reserve and was closed to all hunting and trapping. The Ontario government subsequently purchased reserve land from the federal government in 1928. In 1947, the federal government purchased a tract of land in Mountbatten Township from the Ontario government and established the Mountbatten I.R. No. 76A. The Band moved to its present reserve after 642 acres of the Mountbatten reserve were exchanged in 1973 for an equivalent area of land closer to Chapleau. |
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