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Canadian Aboriginal law is the area of law related to the Canadian government's relationship with the Indigenous peoples. Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 gives the federal parliament exclusive power to legislate in matters related to Aboriginals, which includes groups governed by the Indian Act , different Numbered Treaties and ...
Canadian people who worked as missionaries, whether in Canada or elsewhere. (For Christian missionaries who worked in Canada, see Category:Christian missionaries in Canada ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Missionaries from Canada .
In order to receive funding from the Canadian Government for the OMI mission to the Dene people, the area they served needed to be under treaty. [14] From 1909 to 1921, Oblate Gabriel-Joseph-Elie Breynat, Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie and titular Bishop, [15] lobbied and negotiated so that the Dene would have such a treaty but reception from the Canadian government was lukewarm.
An ISC service centre in Brantford, Ontario. Indigenous Services Canada (ISC; French: Services aux Autochtones Canada; SAC) [NB 1] is one of two departments in the Government of Canada with responsibility for policies relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada (the other being Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada).
On June 29, 2007, Canadian Aboriginal groups held countrywide protests aimed at ending First Nations poverty, dubbed the Aboriginal Day of Action. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, although groups disrupted transportation with blockades or bonfires; a stretch of the Highway 401 was shut down, as was the Canadian National Railway 's line ...
Maple Ridge-Mission: May 12, 2009: May 8, 2017: BC Liberal [80] Métis: Melanie Mark (born 1975) Vancouver-Mount Pleasant: February 2, 2016: April 14, 2023 NDP [81] First Nations (Nisga’a) First Nations (Cree) First Nations First Nations (Ojibway) Adam Olsen (born 1976) Saanich North and the Islands: May 9, 2017: September 21, 2024 Green [82]
John Kim Bell OC OOnt (born October 8, 1952) is Canada’s first Indigenous symphony-orchestra conductor, the founder of the country’s precedent-setting National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (today known as Indspire) and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (today known as the Indspire Awards) and one of Canada's leading energy resource consultants representing First Nations.
The 1996 Report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People described four stages in Canadian history that overlap and occur at different times in different regions: 1) Pre-contact – Different Worlds – Contact; 2) Early Colonies (1500–1763); 3) Displacement and Assimilation (1764–1969); and 4) Renewal to Constitutional Entrenchment (2018).