Establishes the Mohawk Nation Land Registry. LDC001, LRI001, PAR001 instrument families.
The instrument
Gazette No. 22 — Land Registry – Establishment
28 March 2026
Gazette No.: GZT001-260106-000022
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000022
Tracking Code: LT1548-050000-000022 Status: Perfected / Entered / Fully Effected / Registered and Published
Category / Class: Category 01 — Executive Government · Class 06 — Establishment
RECOGNITION AND REGISTRATION — LAND REGISTRY
Land Registry — Mohawk Nation of Grand River
Be it known and placed on record:
That the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River hereby recognizes and formally enters in the Register the Land Registry of the Nation, being the continuation and constitutional grounding of the Kanyen’kehaka Land Registry System established in 2014 and acknowledged in writing by the Ontario Director of Titles, Jeffrey W. Lem, on 9 December 2014 and again on 19 January 2021. The Register does not create this registry; it formalizes the institutional record of a land registry function that has been operative and on notice to Ontario since 2014.
CONSTITUTION OF THE REGISTRY
The Land Registry is held in the custody of the Registrar General and administered by the Director of Lands and Territory. It records: parcels of land identified by survey description certified by the Surveyor General; the nature and extent of the Nation’s interest in each parcel; the interests of individual citizens; instruments affecting land; and lands within the original Haldimand grant that have been alienated or are the subject of unresolved Crown obligations.
THE HALDIMAND GRANT AS FOUNDATION
The Land Registry’s foundation is the full extent of the Haldimand grant — the six-mile corridor on each side of the Grand River from source to mouth, approximately 950,000 acres. The Registry’s most critical section is the alienation record: the documentation of how 903,500 acres — 95.1% of the original grant — came to be held outside the Nation’s possession. That record supports the Haldimand Accounting Instrument.
Note: The Ontario Director of Titles’ acknowledgment that the Kanyen’kehaka Land Registry System operates concurrently with Ontario’s electronic land registration system, combined with Ontario’s inability to identify the date on which the Haldimand Tract became ‘part’ of Ontario, leaves a gap in the Province’s own title chain that has never been filled.
SURVEY REQUIREMENT
No parcel shall be entered in the Land Registry without a survey description certified by the Surveyor General. Where a survey has not yet been completed, a provisional entry may be made with a general description, noted as provisional and subject to revision upon certification.
RELATIONSHIP TO EXTERNAL LAND TITLE SYSTEMS
The Land Registry of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River is maintained independently of and takes no direction from the land titles systems of Ontario or Canada. The Province’s acknowledgment of the concurrent operation of the Kanyen’kehaka Land Registry System is entered in the External Correspondence Record (GZT001-010300-000032 [now GZT001-260204-000032]).
EXECUTION
Executed under the authority of the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River.
Secretary-General
Date
CERTIFICATION OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL
I certify that this instrument has been duly received, examined, and entered in the Register of the Nation of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat.
Gazette No.: GZT001-260106-000022
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000022
Registrar General
Date of Registration
This instrument forms part of the permanent record of the Secretariat.
Mohawk Nation of Grand River · Grand River Territory
