Gustafsen Lake
…Glavin, Terry. “How the Circus Came to Gustafsen Lake,” in The Albion Monitor. 14 November 1995. Also found in This Ragged Place: Travels Across Landscape. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1996….
Lease Lands Press
…The Vancouver Courier, February 3, 1972 The Vancouver Courier, February 15, 1995 The Province, February 19, 1995 The Vancouver Sun, February 24, 1995 The North Shore News, January…
Berger Inquiry
…and First Nations leaders who were involved in the earliest Indigenous rights cases heard in Canadian courts. Vancouver lawyer Thomas Berger, a graduate of UBC, was a key figure in…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. 155-172. Foster, Hamar. “Canada: ‘Indian Administration’ from the Royal…
Guerin Case
…R. v. Guerin [1984] R. v. Guerin is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision that established the Canadian government’s fiduciary duty to First Nations, a trust-like relationship stemming…
Bill C-31
…mental or physical disability”. Section 15 motivated the Canadian government to address the discriminatory sections of the Indian Act, influenced by Lovelace vs. Canada. It wasn’t until April 17, 1985…
Sparrow Case
…the Supreme Court decisions Taku River Tlingit (2004) and Haida Nation (2004). By Tanisha Salomons & Erin Hanson Recommended Resources Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Sparrow, [1990] 1 S.C.R….
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…History of the Indian Residential Schools Beverly Jacobs (former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada and Respondent at the Apology in Parliament): The Apology as a political moment;…
George Manuel
…George Manuel (1921-1989) was an Aboriginal political leader in Canada who held a number of influential roles throughout his career. George Manuel was born February 17, 1921, a member…
Community & Politics
…and again in 1981 in which Aboriginal groups chartered two trains across Canada, from Vancouver to Ottawa, to demand inclusion of Aboriginal rights in the soon-to-be-patriated Canadian constitution. The Constitution…
