Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat
Certificate of the record
The Mill — An economy from one bushel: the mill the Crown promised, the mill that was, and the Mohawk Mill to come.
POS001-261030-000013 · version 1 · A draft — not yet for use
What it is
The mill’s low stone foundation on the steep bank at the end of Mohawk Street, the race water running down to the river, people fishing at the water’s edge and the trail along the top; the mill in eight lines, the promise, the King’s Mill, grist and saw, grinding by 1796 and burnt by 1815, how it works, the ladder, the lesson, the Mohawk Mill, a first mill in numbers and its mark; the Mohawk Milled goods on white in the drawing, the flour, the white corn meal, the bread, the cornbread and the sandwich; a first mill in four figures, 500 kg a day, 58 acres, 4 people, $150,000 and up; and the ladder of a bushel, five rungs from the field to the sandwich with a little person on each and what the bushel is worth there, illustrative. The web edition shows the ladder of a log, from the bush to the house, and the Mohawk Milled goods, flour, white corn meal, bread, cornbread and the sandwich, each at a tap; turns the mill wheel, faster at a tap as the sack fills with flour, and climbs the ladder rung by rung as the value counts up, with the Mohawk Milled goods to tap, a first mill in numbers, what it costs to start, and the words of the mill.
| Its date | 2026-10-29e |
| Made by | Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River |
| Their qualifications | Drawn by Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River from the National Books’ own data; Book IX, The Mill shows it on a page of its own. |
| Their duty | Not recorded. |
| Its standing as a survey | This is the Nation’s determination, made from the sources named; it is not a survey under the Surveyors Act, and was not prepared by a licensed surveyor. |
| Datum and projection | Not a map; the Three Villages’ inset keeps the land map’s datum (NAD83 / UTM zone 17N). |
How it was made
An illustration, drawn from the sources below; printed in A3 landscape (420 × 297 mm), with A2 and A1 print files, 3 mm bleed and crop marks.
How surely
An illustration, not a survey: the figures stand for no particular family. The Three Villages’ inset is the Register’s own land map, drawn from its layers.
A poster: it teaches, and does not decide. The record of any person’s line is the Register’s.
Its sources
- The Mill, Book IX — Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, 2026; the Nation’s own
- The federal plaque on the chapel’s bell house — the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 1984; the promise of the mills
What it carries
✓ A title · ✓ Its maker · ✓ Its date · ✓ A scale bar · ✓ A scale ratio (1 : n) · ✓ North · ✓ A legend · ✓ Its datum and projection · ✓ Its sources, with their dates · ✓ A statement of its accuracy · ✓ A locator (where it is in the wider world) · ✓ Its credits and licences
Its files, and their fingerprints (SHA-256)
Its entries in the integrity log
How the records are kept
The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
To cite it
Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, The Mill (poster), POS001-261030-000013, version 1, 28 October 2026. https://mohawkuniversity.org/Register/verify/POS001-261030-000013
A draft affidavit of the custodian of the records
To be read with counsel before it is used; to be sworn or affirmed before a commissioner.
I, ______________________, of ______________________, MAKE OATH (or AFFIRM) AND SAY:
1. I am the ______________________ of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, and have the keeping of its records, and so have knowledge of the matters below.
2. Attached as Exhibit “___” is a true copy of the record POS001-261030-000013, version 1, “The Mill”, as it is kept in the Secretariat’s records.
3. The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
4. The SHA-256 fingerprint of each file of the record, as it was taken into the records, is set out in the certificate of the record attached; the fingerprint of the copy attached is the same.
5. To my knowledge the system was at all material times operating properly, and nothing in it has been altered except as recorded in its integrity log.
SWORN (or AFFIRMED) before me at ______________________, on ______________________.
Electronic documents are received as evidence on proof that they are what they purport to be, and of the integrity of the system that kept them (Canada Evidence Act, ss. 31.1–31.3; Evidence Act (Ontario), s. 34.1). This certificate sets out that record; whether a record is admitted, and its weight, are for the court.
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