“It will never happen in Canada.”

We Are All Treaty People 17 Comments

Ian Cumming in Ontario Farmer
Originally published October 11, 2022

Recently Mohawks barged two houses down the St Lawrence River and without land deeds or building permits, installed them on farmer-owned residential property by the water in Glengarry.

It is Mohawk land, they claim. People pay a premium to have the St Lawrence touching their lawn. This land is extra valuable, being bordered by official wetlands, providing that combination of complete privacy surrounded by nature.

No houses, up to this point, have been installed by the Mohawks on the government designated wetlands. Possibly government might not approve.

The Montreal Mafia and a former Liberal cabinet minister own land and homes next to the river nearby as well, but they didn’t put houses there either.

It is interesting how those never-written-down native land deeds are specific.

As to being on private land, there is complete and utter silence at all three levels of government. Folks running for council are not bringing it up.

Any speech they make begins with honouring standing on Mohawk land.

Words matter. Sometimes they have consequences.

The police or bylaw enforcement officers, like in Caledonia, are nowhere to be seen.

The affected landowners, on paper deed, have lived in these parts for over two centuries. They always have farmed and still do. Plus, they have been providing the farm community from their store and farm outlet with items like fertilizer for decades.

They have been elected to govern on two levels, MPP and mayor, over the years. The folks in my generation had two sisters become doctors. There is a lawyer in the generation after that.

This family believe in the process of governance and the legality of their Crown Patents.

Of course, farmers think it’s wrong. But won’t help fight, as it’s not on their property.

Then there is that segment of the population that think this is interesting and let’s see how it will play out? Enough of society, apparently, that politicians and the farm organizations they fund are staying silent.

There is only one way it will, or can, play out, if the political leadership who feel it’s “okay” and native justice is being served here, continue encouraging and allowing this.

Over in Australia I met and interviewed Vic Willemse this summer, a young man who had immigrated from South Africa in 2008 with his family and parents, with enough money for plane tickets and to put a down payment on a small bungalow in the cheaper part of Toowoomba.

He was a farm boy, so got into fencing. Today he owns a carwrecking business, pulling out parts, employing 12 people.

In 2007 Willemse was the 13th generation farmer with beef cattle and sheep on 12,000 acres in the Northern Natal Escarpment. He also invented a paddle TMR mixer that got sold worldwide.

There had been proclamations, without deeds, since the 1990s by government officials about this being Zulu land, but they ignored it. Home from college and keen to farm, he bought more land.

The Zulus moved onto their land and squatted in clusters. Willemse wasn’t scared, but grumbled a bit and kept farming his large operation.

He would find a cow or three, or lambs, slaughtered here and there. Fires were set on occasion and frequent minor confrontations took place.

In 2007 he came home to a massive fire being set on his land.

Then in 2008 his wife and young children were cowering in terror in their home, surrounded by Zulu’s threatening to burn them. That young mother is a close friend of my daughter, and she has nightmares yet of their fate, if her husband hadn’t arrived home in time, shooting his gun.

Unlike Zimbabwe, which gave nothing, the South African government was waiting with miniscule compensation for the Willemse family, for “turning over” their land.

When governments support natives saying it’s their land, “watch out,” he told me.

“It will never happen in Canada,” I replied.

That drew a bitter, sarcastic laugh from the 23 South African men, forced off their land and out of their country, gathered at Willemse’s for a BBQ.

(republished with permission)

17 Replies to ““It will never happen in Canada.””

  1. “The Algonquins claim all of Ottawa + surrounding lands as unceded territory. With the BC Supreme Court’s Cowichan precedent—Aboriginal title overrides government & private fee-simple ownership—imagine the irony if judges’ own homes end up under Algonquin title. Would the SCC judges have a conflict of interest to hear the appeal? Precedent has consequences.”

    https://x.com/ikwilson/status/1982907604621000962

  2. “The Montreal Mafia and a former Liberal cabinet minister own land” How would you tell them apart?

  4. Pssssst……In Ontario, a person can claim adverse possession (also known as squatter’s rights) after possessing another’s land for at least 10 years, provided the possession is continuous, exclusive, open, and hostile (without the owner’s consent).

    If the Mohawks claim ownership, and the Court supports that, Adverse Possession applies. Mohawks are in a Catch 22. If the Courts don’t support Mohawk ownership, then the rightful owner has authority over land use…hence, removal of the barged houses to avoid their attempt at adverse possession. It’s written plain in the Ontario law.

    1. “It’s written plain in the Ontario law”.

      I expect fee-simple is written in law somewhere too, but the old rules no longer apply.

    2. Except that if the law isn’t enforced then it doesn’t exist. Ask all of us who refused the jab about our charter rights.

  5. Aren’t the Mohawks from the Mohawk Valley in NY state…..they ran away from the Wigs to settle along the St Lawrence Seaway in what is now Tyendinaga Territory.
    “The Mohawks of Tyendinaga were granted land on the Bay of Quinte in Ontario following the American Revolutionary War, not by Joseph Brant, but through a series of agreements initiated by British authorities. After the war, Mohawk leaders, including John Deserontyon (also known as Deseronto), sought resettlement. British commander Sir Frederick Haldimand promised to resettle the Mohawk near the Bay of Quinte, and in 1784, about 20 Mohawk families, numbering 100–125 individuals, arrived at the site after traveling from Lachine, Quebec.
    This land was originally purchased by the Crown from the Mississauga First Nation on May 22, 1784, as part of the Between the Lakes Treaty.
    The land was formally set aside for the Mohawk and other Haudenosaunee nations under the Simcoe Deed, signed on April 1, 1793, by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, which legally recognized a 37,500-hectare tract for the Mohawk and other Six Nations.
    Joseph Brant, while a prominent leader who led many Mohawk to the Grand River, did not grant the land to Tyendinaga; instead, he opposed the choice of the Bay of Quinte as a settlement site, preferring the Grand River.
    The Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, established on this land, has since faced significant land loss due to appropriation by settlers and the government, reducing its land base to approximately 18,000 acres today.”

  6. We acknowledge we are standing on stolen land.

    A few moments later … the Mohawks show up and claim the land.

    Who could have predicted that?

  7. “No houses, up to this point, have been installed by the Mohawks on the government designated wetlands…The Montreal Mafia and a former Liberal cabinet minister own land and homes next to the river nearby as well, but they didn’t put houses there either….It is interesting how those never-written-down native land deeds are specific.”

    Yup. Fifty years from now everything in Canada will be Indian lands … Supreme court judges’ homes excepted.

  8. Suicidal empathy on the part of some of the ridiculous peasants (and suicidal entitlement/hubris on the part of the Indian peasants as well, that’s often overlooked); calculated political maneuvering on the part of the people in power. Same as it ever was.

    Eventually I’m guessing that a growing percentage of the peasants are going to get tired of this to the point of possibly doing something, but the problem will likely be long past a point of inflection. Fun times ahoy!

  9. Embrace it.
    Every single act of insanity,every excess by the Liars,thieves and fools, is a gift to Western Independence.
    So much so,that we might want to enquire as to “Who is funding this madness”?
    Nothing will break civil society faster,than such an open attack on property law.

    We already know that Canada provides no protection to individual rights and freedoms.
    We know our Just Us System is corrupt.
    We know “Good Government” means “Good for government” at the tax payers expense.

    So now we learn that a country with special citizens ,will not protect the property of the not special citizens..
    What a surprise..Not.
    Parasites and grifter are the natural “leaders” of a kleptocracy.
    Nothing says “Kleptocracy” better that todays Can Ahh Duh.

    Ottawa has played the regions off against each other, for short term political advantage.
    Now it all implodes.
    But hey,Canadian Wisdom at its finest.
    “Land Ownership is racist.”
    Dear Leaders “Justices” have spoken.

  10. In old western movies there were hanging judges.
    While I’m not advocating, no siree, it seems to me that the solution lies in judges hanging.

  11. Sakimay has already been testing the waters by arbitrarily and drastically increasing lease rates for white cottage owners at crooked lake for years.

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