Indigenous Group Wins Land Claim Over Slice of Metro Vancouver

(Bloomberg)-A local group claimed hundreds of acres of Metropolitan Vancouver after a year of hearing and the turning point judiciary at the British Kolumbi Supreme Court.

According to the 863 -page decision on Friday, there is the title of Aborigin with a part of Riverbank in Richmond, Cowichan. The judge, the Canadian government and the Fraser River in the region, the interests of the city in the region are summarized with a map specified as black on a map connected to the “defective and invalid” decision.

In 1846, when the British crown now claimed sovereignty in British Columbia, Cowichan found that a village of “sufficient and exclusively ği was invading the surrounding territory and a lane of the sunken lands in Richmond.

According to the decision that also granted the right to fish of the Fraser River of the Cowichan descendants, the grants given by the British to the title of Cowichan Land by others. The plaintiffs called it “historical victory.”

Many local groups in Canada signed treaties with British crown in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This is not the case in British Columbia, where the lower mainland has the most expensive lands of Canada. Many areas of the province are subject to legal and political disputes.

Orum I hope that this will be a very important precedent, Dav, the senior lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that the affected land was about 750 to 800 acres.

Rosenberg will not change the rights of the owners’ rights for 120 properties in the affected area, except that they come to do something with the property requiring Crown authority ”. Authorized, the owners of the Crown Land system, the owners of the property sales may require Cowichan’s consent, he said.

Rosenberg, representing Tsilhqot’s nation in the 2014 Supreme Court of 2014, which strengthens the rights of Aboriginal, said he expects the case to be appealed and may not be solved for years.

The claim of the descendants of Cowichan, Canada, British Columbia, Richmond, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and the other two local groups – Tsawassen First Nation and Musqueam Indian Group were court.

Richmond said the decision was under legal examination. Musqueam said in a statement that they were “devastated ,, while Tsawwassen First Nation decision was reviewed with the legal adviser. A port authority spokesman, the agency said that the decision examined.

British Columbia Prime Minister David Eby said that the Chief Public Prosecutor would take into account the possible reasons for appeal and that the state would decide through the first nations through non -court negotiations.

EBY, “Open -titled private property, a mortgage, economic certainty and real estate market is the key to borrowing” and the state, “This work and personal predictability and for non -domestic and non -indigenous people of our economy,” he said.

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