Presented by: Christine Woodcock
Summary:
In this presentation we will look at the players in the Canada Company, John Galt and the settlement of the lands known as the Huron Tract.
Description:
Scottish novelist, John Galt had a vision. He envisioned himself as a colonizer and reasoned that a private venture with enough capital could buy large amounts of the land that the Crown had acquired from Canada’s indigenous people and sell it profitably to the flood of European settlers. Within short order, Galt had purchased 2.4 million acres in what was to become The Huron Tract. This land was part of Treaty 29. The Huron Tract Treaty was signed by eighteen Anishinaabek chiefs in1827 in Amherstburg.
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