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Daniels v Canada (Indian Affairs and Northern Development), 2016 SCC 12 is a case of the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that Métis and non-status Indians are "Indians" for the purpose of s 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867. [2]
Reference Re Eskimos, 1939 CanLII 22, [1939] SCR 104 is a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the constitutional status of Canada's Inuit, then called "Eskimos." The case concerned section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 , then the British North America Act, 1867 , which assigns jurisdiction over "Indians, and Lands reserved ...
The case went to Supreme Court of Canada in 1910, which ruled that the Sulpicians held the titles to the land. In 1956, the Government of Canada purchased 6 km 2 (1,500 acres) of the land previously owned by the Sulpicians for the Mohawks to live on, but did not grant this land reserve status. [12]
Provincial jurisdiction over property and civil rights embraces all private law transactions, which includes virtually all commercial transactions. Note that "civil rights" in this context does not refer to civil rights in the more modern sense of political liberties. Rather, it refers to private rights enforceable through civil courts.
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The family's original 640-acre property, stretching a half-mile east along Miccosukee Road, once encompassed all of today's Leon High School property and was filled with crops and cows.
When the Act was enacted in 1867, "The Public Debt and Property" was listed as section 91(1), and stayed in that position until 1949. In that year the British Parliament, on the request of the Canadian Senate and House of Commons , passed an amendment to the Act which re-numbered "The Public Debt and Property" as section 91(1A), and enacted a ...