 This resolution was negotiated between the band, the government of Canada, and the province of Ontario in accord with the Indian Lands Agreement of 1986.Ontario also released all mineral rights and revenues on the returned land to Canada to administer for the use of the band.In a letter written in October 1855, Johann Georg Kohl cites visiting "Rivière au Désert" ("Garden River" (literally "Desert River") in French), located a few miles from the mouth of the St. Marys River.