Indian people in every agency in British Columbia
suffered an injustice when the McKenna-McBride joint commission
of the federal and provincial governments adjusted Indian reserve
lands between 1913 and 1916. The report of this Royal Commission
was amended before it was adopted by both governments in 1924,
but the amendments only served to compound the inequity. This
history of reserve land cut-offs in British Columbia considers
the individual development of federal and provincial Indian land
policies, the negotiations to homogenize them after union in
1871, and the efforts of Indians to resist reserve cut-offs.
The primary sources, many of them generated by the reserve
adjustment process of the Royal Commission, have allowed me to
calculate the relative values of lands cut off or added by the
commission, to discern the practical effects of the 1924
amendments, and to identify the principal consultants of the
commission. These results, considered together with secondary
sources which treat various aspects of reserve land cut-offs,
indicate that the injustice was done at the insistence of the
British Columbia government. Nevertheless, the federal
government must share in the blame. It betrayed its role of
protector of the Indians for the sake of creating a uniform
Indian policy, no matter how unjust. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/42023 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | McFarland, Dana |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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