Document Type
Creative Non-Fiction
Publication Date
6-15-2023
Abstract
In June 2016, I made an improvised pilgrimage on foot through the Haldimand Tract in southwestern Ontario, the territory deeded to the Haudensaunee in 1784 and mostly stolen back by settlers since then. I grew up in Brantford, a city in the Haldimand Tract, ignorant of the history of the area. When I learned about that history, I decided to walk through the Tract as a way of understanding, physically, the scale of the land theft that had occurred, a theft that, as a settler, I had benefitted from. “Surrender No. 40” is an account of that pilgrimage.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Wilson, Ken.
"Surrender No. 40."
The Goose, vol. 20
,
no.
1
, article 17,
2023,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol20/iss1/17.
