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

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorMcNeil, C. Kent
dc.creatorHamilton, Robert Colin
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-20T16:33:45Z
dc.date.available2016-09-20T16:33:45Z
dc.date.copyright2015-10-27
dc.date.issued2016-09-20
dc.date.updated2016-09-20T16:33:45Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThis 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 legal principles articulated by the Court, it is very likely that Aboriginal title can be proven to have existed in the Maritime Provinces. In light of this conclusion, the inquiry then shift to whether that title was legally extinguished. The legal parameters of the extinguishment question are surveyed in considerable detail and it is concluded that title was likely never legally extinguished in the region. Having found that title was likely not extinguished in the region, the final section of the thesis analyzes how the Aboriginal peoples of the region were dispossessed of their lands and provides some provisional arguments concerning the legal framework for assessing that dispossession where legal extinguishment is not proven.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32148
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal title
dc.subject.keywordsTsilhqot'in Nation
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal law
dc.subject.keywordsAtlantic Canada
dc.subject.keywordsMaritime Provinces
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal Rights
dc.subject.keywordsDelgamuukw
dc.subject.keywordsMarshall/Bernard
dc.subject.keywordsPeace and friendship treaties
dc.subject.keywordsTreaty rights
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous land rights
dc.subject.keywordsSappier/Gray
dc.subject.keywordsMaliseet
dc.subject.keywordsMi'kmaq
dc.subject.keywordsMi'kmaw
dc.titleThey Promised to Leave Us Some of Our Land: Aboriginal Title in Canada's Maritime Provinces
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Hamilton_Robert_C_2015_Masters.pdf
Size:
1.62 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
YorkU_ETDlicense.txt
Size:
3.38 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download

Collections

Law

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.