The legal capture of British Columbia’s fisheries: a study of law and colonialism

• Main Author: Harris, Douglas C.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Fisheries > British Columbia; Fishery law and legislation > Canada; First Nations > British Columbia > Fishing; Canada; Indian; British Columbia; Babine River; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8144

This is a study of the human conflict over fish in late nineteenth and early twentieth century British Columbia, and of how that conflict was shaped by law. Law, understood broadly to include both the legal forms of the Canadian state and those of Native peoples, defined and in part created both Nat...