“The land itself, with these small exceptions, becomes the entire property of the white people for ever.”
James Douglas, the governor of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia from 1851 to 1864, wrote this clause into the 14 historic treaties that preceded the province's reserve system.
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One reserve like thousands more in B.C.
In less than 150 years, the Kitsilano Indian Reserve appeared, disappeared and reappeared. Just like thousands more in the province, the reserve appeared the first time it was measured and mapped. Indeed, the fundamental line on the map of British Columbia … Continue reading
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