Talk:Huron Tract

I've flagged for discussion this statement in the opening section of the article: "The administration of the Huron Tract demonstrates the uniquely North American tendency to allocate to private enterprise, functions which would normally have been the Crown prerogative in Britain." The citation in support of this statement is "Canada in the Making", which is currently a dead link.

The difficulty I have with that statement is that this approach to colonization does not strike me as unique to British colonies in North America. The obvious examples of British colonization companies in other imperial possessions are the East India Company, the Imperial British East Africa Company, and the New Zealand Company. These were all British private companies, granted quasi-governmental powers by the British government, for the purpose of trade and settlement.

Unless someone can explain why the Canada Company was an example of a "uniquely North American tendency", different from these three British companies in Africa, India and New Zealand, I think that statement should be removed. --Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:40, 28 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

I agree and will remove the text. TFD (talk) 15:45, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

why are there no names of the tribal representatives with whom these treaties were made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.65.128 (talk) 17:09, 23 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

This entire article requires a complete rewrite. Just look at the first sentence:

The Huron Tract Purchase also known as the Huron Block, registered as Crown Treaty Number 29, is a large area of land in southwestern Ontario bordering on Lake Huron to the west and Lake Erie to the east.

It can't even decide what sort of thing the topic is. Is it an area of land? A sale of government owned land to a company? Or a treaty with natives? Those are three completely different things. Not to mention Lake Erie is far to the south, not east, and certainly not bordering the area in question.

the "historic origins" section uses a source that refers only to an entirely different part of the province and names native tribes that never lived in the area. Not to mention the non-working source, that appears to misrepresent this source.[1]

The images are all wrong too:

• first there's the anachronistic "crest"
• then a romanticized painting clearly from elsewhere
• then the great seal of Upper Canada, which would not have been affixed to the treaty, as the treaty was between the crown (signed by a direct representative of the crown, not the colonial administration) and the native peoples.
• The later "maps" of the different counties all are oriented in different directions and no illustration of that whatsoever.
• The image of the Bruce Trail when the Bruce Trail doesn't run through the region.
• Image of a river near Canning, which is again outside of the region.

The article has very little on the Huron Tract as an entity. The article on the Ausable River has more information on the events that went on in the Huron Tract than this article does.

In 1841, the Huron Tract was 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km2) with another parcel about to be added that would take the total to over 1.7 million acres (6,900 km2). The Huron Tract would eventually total 2,756,960 acres (11,157 km2).

No source, what land was added?

--2607:FEA8:E99F:6600:74CD:C93C:859D:3DA3 (talk) 03:05, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply