Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: David Ebner
Publication Date: August 16, 2025 - 06:45
Court ruling on Indigenous claim creates uncertainty around land ownership
August 16, 2025
On a stretch of the south arm of the Fraser River, in the Vancouver area, the Cowichan Tribes in centuries past had an annual summer fishing village, a place they defended with a warrior ethos against other Indigenous groups.
But in the mid-1800s, the Cowichan – whose home territory is on Vancouver Island – were displaced from that village as the British took control and, after British Columbia joined Canada, the land was sold over the years.
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