Notice of Interest — Arrowdale Lands

The instrument

Gazette No. 37 — Notice of Interest – Arrowdale Lands

28 March 2026

Gazette No.: GZT001-260304-000037

Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000037

Tracking Code: LT1508-050000-000037 Status: Perfected / Entered / Fully Effected / Registered and Published

Category / Class: Category 03 — Justice Services · Class 04 — Notice

NOTICE OF INTEREST — ARROWDALE LANDS

City of Brantford — Grand River Territory

Be it known and placed on record:

That the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River hereby formally enters a Notice of Interest in the lands known as the Arrowdale Municipal Golf Course, situated within the City of Brantford in the Grand River Territory, within the six-mile corridor of the Haldimand Proclamation and within the trust corpus documented in the Haldimand Accounting Instrument.

THE CITY’S POSITION AND ITS DEFICIENCIES

On April 1, 2020, the Secretary-General issued a cease and desist to the City regarding the sale of the Arrowdale Lands. The City Solicitor, Heidi de Vries, responded on April 15, 2020, expressly declaring that the City holds valid title to the Arrowdale Lands and denying trustee de son tort liability. No instrument demonstrating that the Mohawk Nation granted, surrendered, or ceded the Arrowdale Lands was produced. The City called the Secretary-General’s claims “frivolous and vexatious” — a characterization the Secretariat has rejected in full. The City’s own title chain for the Arrowdale Lands traces to instruments dated 1928–1992, none of which involve the Mohawk Nation as a granting party.

THE FIRST NATIONS CLAIMS CLAUSE

The City’s purchase and sale agreements for the Arrowdale Lands include the clause: ‘The City makes no representations or warranties with respect to any First Nations claims.’ This clause acknowledges the existence of potential claims and the City’s inability to warrant against them. The Secretariat notes that by creating this by-law clause, the City has attempted to remove its own duty to disclose, while the underlying claims remain unextinguished. The City’s own documents are part of the non-recognition record.

THE TRUSTEE DE SON TORT CHARACTERIZATION

On January 15, 2021, the Secretary-General formally asserted to the Director of Titles, copied to the City of Brantford Clerk and the AG Ontario, that Brantford City Council members (jointly and severally) are Trustee de son tort, having taken up the faith pledged to the Mohawk by interloping into treaty lands as strangers. A 32-year cumulative property sales volume within the Haldimand Tract of approximately $55 billion, together with approximately $18 billion in development charges and building revenues, has been collected by municipal governments from these lands without authority demonstrated as against the Mohawk Posterity. Municipal revenues collected from treaty lands without authority are held in trust by operation of law. The rejection of the trustee de son tort characterization by the City does not extinguish it.

This Notice places the City of Brantford and any prospective purchaser on notice that the Secretariat maintains a territorial and estate interest in the Arrowdale Lands arising from the Haldimand Proclamation and the Nation’s territorial jurisdiction.

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.: GZT001-260304-000037

Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000037

Primary Sources: City of Brantford cease and desist April 15, 2020 (Heidi de Vries); July 30, 2020 follow-up; Secretary-General correspondence April 1, 2020 and January 15, 2021

Registrar General

Date of Registration

This instrument forms part of the permanent record of the Secretariat.

Mohawk Nation of Grand River · Grand River Territory