Dedicated account for Haldimand covenant obligations. Held pending Crown accounting. The Nation's own account, not a Crown trust.
The instrument
Gazette No. 25 — Haldimand Lands Trust Account
28 March 2026
Gazette No.: GZT001-260606-000025
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000025
Tracking Code: TG0815-050000-000025 Status: Perfected / Entered / Fully Effected / Registered and Published
Category / Class: Category 06 — Budget, Revenue & Treasury · Class 06 — Establishment
NOTICE OF ESTABLISHMENT — HALDIMAND LANDS TRUST ACCOUNT
Haldimand Lands Trust Account — Mohawk Nation of Grand River
Be it known and placed on record:
That the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River hereby establishes the Haldimand Lands Trust Account as a dedicated trust account for the receipt, holding, and administration of all revenues, settlements, and financial recoveries arising from the Crown’s obligations in respect of the Grand River Territory.
CONSTITUTION AND RESTRICTIONS
The Account is held under the joint authority of the Treasurer General and the Attorney General. Funds are held on trust for the citizens of the Mohawk Nation as the beneficiaries of the Haldimand Proclamation. No disbursement shall be made without the concurrence of the Attorney General. The Account shall never be applied in satisfaction of any obligation not directly related to the territorial estate of the Nation or the welfare of its citizens as Haldimand beneficiaries.
THE ACCOUNT AS INSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT
The existence of this Account, formally constituted and entered in the Register, demonstrates the Nation’s institutional readiness to receive what is owed. The Secretariat hereby gives notice to the Crown and to all relevant parties that the Account is established and the Secretariat is prepared to receive, record, and administer any payment, distribution, or accounting made in respect of the Crown’s Haldimand obligations.
Strategic note: An empty trust account is not a weakness — it is a precise institutional statement. Every year the Account remains unfunded by the Crown is a year that the Crown’s default is on record. The Schedule of Unjust Enrichment (GZT001-050400-000062 [now GZT001-260109-000062]) entered as a formal exhibit to this Account establishes the conservative aggregate figure: $2,955,610,000,000 CAD — approximately $2.96 trillion in land asset value, infrastructure, tax revenue, licensing, agricultural, commercial, intellectual property, and natural resource wealth generated and retained by the Crown from Haldimand Tract lands. This figure is the floor, not the ceiling, of the obligation the Trust Account is constituted to receive.
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.: GZT001-260606-000025
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000025
Registrar General
Date of Registration
This instrument forms part of the permanent record of the Secretariat.
Mohawk Nation of Grand River · Grand River Territory
