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B.C. Legal History: Did You Know?

Miscellanea from British Columbia's legal history,
​with a focus on land and settler/Indigenous relations


Nothing on this page or those linked to it should be taken as legal advice.
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B.C. was a colony ?!

Indian Act in BC:
​to 1876

Indian Act in BC:
1876 & after

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Summer of 1877: North-West
​Mounted Police

Summer of 1877: Telegrams in cypher

Summer of 1877: Aboriginal title
& the JIRC

If there's something you've been wondering about, 
or you want to share your own surprising piece of legal history, 

send me an email, and I might feature it here.
​604-837-0874
​sarah@spikelaw.ca

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