They Promised to Leave Us Some of Our Land: Aboriginal Title in Canada's Maritime Provinces

• Main Author: Hamilton, Robert Colin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Osgoode Digital Commons 2015
• Subjects: Aboriginal title; Tsilhqot'in Nation; Aboriginal law; Atlantic Canada; Maritime Provinces; Aboriginal Rights; Delgamuukw; Marshall/Bernard; Peace and friendship treaties; Treaty rights; Indigenous land rights; Sappier/Gray; Maliseet; Mi'kmaq; Mi'kmaw; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; British Columbia; Canada
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/llm/20; https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=llm

This thesis analyzes the status of Aboriginal title in Canada's Maritime Provinces in light of the Supreme Court of Canada's historic declaration of Aboriginal title in the 2014 decision of Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia. This thesis argues that, in light of the clarified lega...