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The Six Nations reserve is bordered by the County of Brant, Norfolk County, and Haldimand County, with a subsection reservation, the New Credit Reserve, located within its boundaries. The acreage at present covers some 46,000 acres (190 km 2 ) near the city of Brantford, Ontario .
The riding name refers to the Six Nations of the Grand River which is the largest First Nations reserve in Canada. [2] ... Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations
Ohsweken (/ oʊ ʃ ˈ w iː k ɛ n /) is a dispersed rural community located within the Six Nations of the Grand River, in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. [7] [8] Approximately 300 of the 2,700 homes on the reserve are in Ohsweken, and it is the site of the reserve governmental and administrative offices.
Many of his descendants and other First Nations people live on the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River reserve south of Brantford; it is the most populous reserve in Canada. Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" because the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville ...
[2] [3] [4] The Brant census division, which includes Brantford and the Six Nations and New Credit reserves along with the County of Brant, had a population of 144,771 in the 2021 census. The County is named after Joseph Brant and was established in 1851. Brantford separated from the County when it incorporated as a city in 1877. [5]
The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada.It is focused on land along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, a 385,000-hectare (950,000-acre) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for ...
The Six Nations reserve south of Brantford, Ontario, is what remains of the Haldimand Tract. Throughout the 19th century, many Anglo-Canadian settlements developed along the Grand within former Six Nations territory, including Waterloo, Berlin (now Kitchener), Cambridge, Paris, Brantford, Caledonia, Dunnville and Port Maitland.
The Mohawk Institute was established on 350 acres of farmland, all of which was or had been part of the Six Nations reserve at some point. [2] In 1831, the New England Company operated this residential school for boys, and starting in 1834, Indigenous girls attended this school as well. [1]