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The Numbered Treaties (or Post-Confederation Treaties) are a series of eleven treaties signed between the First Nations, one of three groups of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the reigning monarch of Canada (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921. [1]
Bilateral treaties of Canada (1 C, 1 P) F. Free trade agreements of Canada (1 C, 23 P) I. Treaties of Indigenous peoples in Canada (2 C, 15 P) M.
[1] [2] The agreement is a Modern Treaty which is protected by Section 35 of the Constitution of Canada. [3] The agreement includes recognizing Sahtu Dene and Metis ownership of 41,437 km² of land in the Mackenzie River Valley. This includes subsurface or mineral rights to 1,813 km² of land.
Map of Numbered Treaties of Canada. Borders are approximated. Date: 26 March 2011, 17:52 (UTC) Source: Canada location map.svg; Author: Canada location map.svg:
Ill-defined terms of the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Revolutionary War left the boundary of the state of New Hampshire and Canada in doubt. The lack of a precise definition of the "northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River" as defined by the Treaty of Paris left the land that is now the town of Pittsburg, New Hampshire within the ...
The treaty changed the border to use the southernmost intersection as the northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods. Finally, the maritime border in the Bay of Fundy was adjusted, netting Canada roughly 9 acres (0.036 km 2) of water. too small to map: March 11, 1927
Canada relies on the "A-B" line as rendering nearly all of Dixon Entrance as its internal waters. The U.S. does not recognize the "A-B" line as an official boundary, instead regarding it as allocating sovereignty over the land masses within the Dixon Entrance, [3] with Canada's land south of the line. The U.S. regards the waters as subject to ...
Co-management arrangements in Canada between Crown governments and Indigenous groups have historically arisen out of comprehensive land claims settlements (modern treaties), [4] crisis resolution processes (i.e. over resource disputes), and more recently out of growing legal recognition of Indigenous right through supreme court jurisprudence, such as the 1999 Sparrow ruling. [1]