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KEEPING PROMISES
The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada
Edited by Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge
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KEEPING
PROMISES
The Royal Proclamation of 1763,
Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada
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Number 78 of McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
272 Pages, 6"x9", 6 photos, 7 maps
Available November 2015
How historic and modern
Aboriginal treaties continue to shape
the Canadian landscape.
In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven
Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the
governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North
America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land
E d i t e d b y Te r r y F e n g e a n d J i m A l d r i d g e
west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the
Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without
coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle on the land. Marking its 250th
anniversary Keeping Promises shows how central the application of the Proclamation is to the many treaties that
followed it and the settlement and development of Canada.
Promises have been made to Aboriginal peoples in historic treaties from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Ontario, the Prairies, and the Mackenzie Valley, and in modern treaties from the 1970s onward,
primarily in the North. In this collection, essays by historians, lawyers, treaty negotiators, and Aboriginal leaders
explore how and how well these treaties are executed. Addresses by the governor general of Canada and the
federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development are also included.
In 2003 Aboriginal leaders formed the Land Claims Agreements Coalition to make sure that treaties - building
blocks of Canada - are fully implemented. Unique in breadth and scope, Keeping Promises is a testament to the
research, advocacy, solidarity, and accomplishments of this coalition and those holding the Crown to its commitments.
Terry Fenge is a consultant with decades of experience in Arctic, environmental, and Aboriginal issues, and
co-editor of Northern Lights Against POPs.
Jim Aldridge is partner at the Vancouver law firm Aldridge and Rosling and has been counsel to the Nisga’a
Nation for over three decades.
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