CA-K663Indigenous peoples & reconciliation
Joseph Trutch and First Nations lands in British Columbia
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Joseph Trutch, a British-born engineer who believed Indigenous Peoples inferior, was British Columbia’s chief commissioner of lands and works from 1864 to 1871. Representing settler interests, he cut existing reserves, allotted minimal land to new ones, denied Aboriginal title and refused treaties, denying First Nations access to their territories; he became the province’s first lieutenant-governor in 1871.
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Trutch as described in his 2023 reviewed designation.
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