Creation of Superintendent Positions

Interior Minister Laird abolished the Board of Indian Commissioners and replaced it with two superintendent positions which would cover the entirety of the prairie region. The Manitoba superintendent position, based in Winnipeg, included territory covered in treaties 1, 2, 5, and a small section of treaty 3. The Northwest Superintendency was originally supposed to include only Treaty 4 territory, but as more western treaties were signed, they came under this superintendency as well. Its headquarters was planned for the capital of the Northwest Territories, once it had been chosen. Each superintendency was to be governed by up to five Indian Agents chosen by the Governor General.