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Register of land purchases from Indians

Register of land purchases from Indians

The series consists of a register of land purchases from Indigenous peoples on Southern Vancouver Island (near Fort Victoria), 1850-1852; record of agreements with Indigenous peoples at Fort Rupert, 1851, and Nanaimo, 1854. These conveyances or agreements are often referred to as the Fort Victoria treaties, Vancouver Island treaties, or Douglas treaties.

The following is a list of the signatory groups, as they were named in the treaties, and their present-day community names. The names are listed in the order the treaties were signed.

  1. Teechamitsa (Songhees Nation)
  2. Kosampson (Esquimalt Nation)
  3. Swengwhung (Songhees Nation)
  4. Chilcowitch (Songhees Nation)
  5. Whyomilth (Songhees Nation)
  6. Che-ko-nein (Songhees Nation)
  7. Ka-ky-aakan (Sc’ianew/Beecher Bay First Nation)
  8. Chewhaytsum (Sc’ianew/Beecher Bay First Nation)
  9. Soke (T'Sou-ke Nation)
  10. South Saanich (Malahat First Nation, Tsartlip First Nation, Tsawout First Nation)
  11. North Saanich (Malahat First Nation, Pauquachin First Nation, Tsartlip First Nation, Tsawout First Nation, Tseycum First Nation)
  12. Queackar (Kwiakah First Nation)
  13. Quakiolth (Kwakiutl First Nation)
  14. Saalequun (Snaw-Na-Was/Nanoose First Nation, Snuneymuxw First Nation

Included with these records, but not part of the HBC agreements, are two land purchase agreements made between Vancouver Island Government Agent William Banfield and two Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations in 1859 and 1860, as well as a list with the male adult population of tribes of the southwest coast of Vancouver Island compiled by Banfield.

Translations of Vancouver Island treaties

Translations of Vancouver Island treaties

The series consists of three documents relating to MS-0772 Register of land purchases from Indians. The agreements recorded in the register are referred to as the Vancouver Island treaties (formerly known as the Douglas treaties or Fort Victoria treaties). In February 2017 a conference was held at the Songhees Wellness Centre, inviting Indigenous and non-Indigenous islanders to discuss the treaties, their history, and their present-day impact.

The conference commissioned the first translations of two of the treaties into Lekwungen by Songhees Elder Dr. Elmer George, and a cultural interpretation of the treaties in SENĆOŦEN by STOLȻEŁ, Tsartlip Elder John Elliot Sr. The Lekwungen translations are of the če’q’nein nəč’elŋxʷ- kʷ’ats’ayč iʔ xpeʔ kʷəliq̌a (Chekonein treaty) and the Teechamitsa treaty.

Dr. Elmer George and John Elliot Sr. were awarded the Meritorious Service Award by the Governor General of Canada in recognition of this work.

First Nations, Land, & James Douglas: Indigenous & Treaty Rights in the Colonies of Vancouver Island & BC, 1849-1864 conference

Journal notes : Kwawkewkth Agency

Journal notes : Kwawkewkth Agency

The item consists of draft notes presumably prepared by a member (not identified) of the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia (McKenna-McBride Royal Commission). The notes are not dated by year, but are thought to have been written in 1914. The address for C.O. Marston in Alert Bay appears on the first page.

The notes refer to the Kwawkewlth Agency region (northern Vancouver Island) and refer to six tribes, which are not always clearly identified in the notes. Varying information is provided for each tribe and may include the name of the chief, population and demographics information, employment and economic activities, customs, acreage and reserve allotments, land use, and discussions relating to education, medical care, and relations with Indian Agents (primarily William May Halliday).

William Law Ogilby fonds

William Law Ogilby fonds

  • PR-2208
  • collection
  • 1892

The fonds consists of an illustrated diary written in a school exercise book of William Law Ogilby's experience as a chainman on a survey of a portion of the western boundary of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Belt on Vancouver Island in 1892. A photograph, presumed to have been taken on the survey, depicts Ogilby and two other men at their camp at an unidentified location.

Ogilby, William Law

Looking N.

Looking N.

The item is a b&w photograph of the Western Fuel Company's pithead in the Nanaimo mining division, looking North.

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