Canada tried to quash First Nation land claim with this handwritten 1889 ruling. It failed – National Post

Sep 09, 2024

A lot is at stake, literally thousands of square kilometres of land in Ontario which was arguably never ceded by the First Nation band that previously occupied it

Earlier this summer, an Ontario Superior Court judge inspected a historical document, and he was pleased, impressed even.

It was a handwritten stack of papers, cursive but unadorned, clear and not at all frilly, capably following invisible lines, and written in a practised hand that saved its restrained flourishes for the curlicued squiggles that precede capital Fs or As or Gs.