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Indians Claim North Bay Land. TEMAGAMlp Out. (CP) — The Bear Island Indian hand has laid claim to about 4,000 square miles of land in this area BO miles north of North flay, including the tract the Ontario government is eon-s i d c r i n g for the $82-million Maple Mountain tourist development,Gary Potts, chief of the band which includes BO to 75 treaty Indians, said in an interview today his band has never signed any form of treaty or agreement surrendering i t s rights to the grounds.He said the band claim was filed with land titles offices in North Bay, Sudbury and Hai-leybury in the form of a caution against first registration of Crown lands in 110 townships surrounding Lake Tema-gami.The caution was filed August, 1873, by Haileybury lawyer Bruce Clark, on behalf of the Bear Island Foundation, hut did not become public until today..A North Bay lawyer said a caution is a legal method of declaring that the cautioner has a claim against the land. Title to such lands may be registered, but only subject to the caution,It is not known -whether there have been any transfers since the caution was filed.Chief Potts, a 29-year-old trapper, said that although other bands signed treaties ceding land in noriheastem Ontario, no member of the To* magarni band has ever signed away rights to the ancestral hunting grounds.Asked whether the government interest in Maple Mountain as a tourist site had anything to do with the Indian land claim, he said that Maple Mountain just happened to he a piece of land in the centre of the band’s hunting territory. “We didn’t move it there/* Bear Island, about 18 milesfrom the village of Temagami, has at peak periods about 16-1 residents.In 1309 or 1970, after a request from the band council a portion of Bear Island was made an Indian reserve hut Chief Potts says his people have lived there since well beyond living memory,The Bear Island Foundation, he said, is made up entirely of members of the Tcmagami band.Executive Dies At 73QUEBEC (CP) — Alfred Mereier, 73, prominent Canadian newspaper executive, died hen* early Sunday.Funeral services are sche-duled'for Wednesday.Mr. Mereier, who took over management of Quebec Lc So-leil in 1937 when it was at a low ebb, developed the daily into one of the most successful and technically-advanced in the country.He was active in newspaper associations in Canada, including The Canadian Press, and was a former president of the national news co-operative.He was one of the principal organizers of Lcs Quotidiens du Quebec, an association of Quebec dailies of which ho became president, and put together a co-operative group publishing Perspectives, a Sat*; urday supplement that is the French-knguage equivalent of Weekend.Familiarly known in Canadian newspaper circles by his nickname Fred, Mr. Mcrcicr started lo give up management responsibilities at Le Solcil in 1907.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Feb 11, 1974
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