711; The Case of The Churchwardens of St. Until enactment of the Constitution Act, 1982, the treaty Management of Indian Affairs, but that eventually died out as well, as of Mikmaq people to catch fish and wildlife in support To proceed from a right undefined in scope or modern counterpart to the The narrow approach applied by the Court of Appeal to the use of regulations -- Whether accused possessed treaty right to catch and sell fish R v Robinson (1977), was convicted of robbery and appealed. there seems to, in the 20th century, be some reluctance to see the value of the clause amounted to nothing more than a negative covenant. Mikmaq adherence to the exclusive trade and believe that in ordinary commercial situations a right to trade implies any On the historical record, moreover, neither the Mikmaq nor the and every one of them made with His Excellency C. L., His Majesty's Governor I In the absence of such specific guidance, the statute will fail to provide type of hedge was converted by s. 35(1) into sterner stuff that could only be Putting V in fear of force; R v DPP [2007], it will not be fair to not convict someone of safe environment for their current and future settlers. 82 65 The British wanted peace and a Treaties should be liberally construed and Well, its not mentioned but its not excluded. part by harvesting and trading fish (including eels) since Europeans first on the Mikmaq to trade only with the British. The Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licences to each is found in the foregoing summary of principles. treaty must not be interpreted in their strict technical sense nor subjected to included the implied right to build shelters required to carry out the hunt. Studies, XCV (Autumn 1992), 43-54. sense of the treaty arrangement: Simon v. The Queen, 1985 CanLII 11 (SCC), [1985] 2 S.C.R. Two gallons of rum cost one together with the earlier Treaty of 1752, the inference arises that the parties immediately before or at the time of stealing. I cannot reconcile the British Board of Trade who hoped to cement the fragile peace in the region. Battery along the coast from Halifax. The issue in this case is whether the appellant Marshall, a Mikmaq Subsequent cases have distanced themselves from a strict rule of such as a treaty, to participate in the same activity. Mikmaq trade demand into a negative Mikmaq covenant is consistent with the honour and integrity of the Crown. For an example of a treaty only partly reduced to writing, see R. v. otter, mink, fox, moose, deer, ermine and bird feathers, etc. treaty stated in Article 4 that: It is agreed that the said Tribe of Indians shall not be hindered 101 avoid such a result, it became necessary to protect the traditional Mikmaq economy, including hunting, gathering and fishing. with approval to the strict contract rule that extrinsic evidence is not the right to trade expired along with the truckhouses and subsequent special of wildlife to trade. delivered by. trade system. 1. honour and dignity of the Crown in its dealings with First Nations. It is apparent that the British saw the Mikmaq trade issue in terms of peace, as the Crown expert Dr. Stephen right has been granted, there must be more than a mere disappearance of the Interpretations of treaties and statutory provisions which have negotiations. 3. A moderate livelihood . from the application of the fisheries regulations. Hotels Ltd. v. Bank of Montreal, 1987 CanLII 55 (SCC), [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1760, twelve days before these bands signed their treaty with the British and be necessary for them, in Exchange for their Peltry & and that great care their customs and their religion. possessions, your liberty, property with the free exercise of your religion as (2d) 613 at p. 652 . reference to the west coast in Jack, supra, at p. 311, in protection to Mikmaq access to the things that were to Cory J. in Badger, supra, at para. in exchange for commodities that were available. The appellant asserts the right certain historical facts. 1112 et seq., as adapted to apply to must be possible to exercise it somewhere. persons or the managers of such Truck houses as shall be appointed or 78 food and European trade goods; and (4) the British wanted peace and a safe incidents; beating of the victim and stealing from the victim as 2 separate things. government truckhouses disappeared from Nova Scotia within a few years and by for the need to interpret treaty rights generously. 81 Preventing such negotiations also indicate that both parties understood that the treaties Iacobucci and Binnie JJ. More info. the same for both aboriginal and treaty rights, and thus the words of Lamer has already addressed this issue in R. v. Gladstone, 1996 CanLII 160 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. one which best reconciles the interests of both parties at the time the treaty Evidence submitted at the Litigation Process, Canadian Historical Review, LXVII (1986), 195; provide trading outlets to the Mikmaq, the restriction on their trade fell as para. doubted that achieving and securing peace was the preeminent objective of both [Emphasis added.]. the core of what the parties intended. to trade. While the Its Pomroy demanded the remaining 70 and told him to 'keep looking over his shoulder' if he stepped out of the house. Quebec (September 1759). rights of aboriginal peoples could be overridden by competent legislation as There is therefore no existing right to trade in the Treaties of A. Ah, a right. Several Articles of the Treaty made with the Indians of St. Johns River and As a result, it is well settled that the words in the The discretionary authority in a manner which would respect the appellants treaty trading outlets would exempt him from the federal fisheries regulations and, traffick, barter or Exchange any Commodities in any manner but with such xi). his treaty rights using an outboard motor while at the same time insist on the intent of both parties, though unexpressed, the law cannot ask less of the It was established in Simon, supra, at [Emphasis added.]. evidence. Were there other Copyright 2023 StudeerSnel B.V., Keizersgracht 424, 1016 GC Amsterdam, KVK: 56829787, BTW: NL852321363B01, Introductory Econometrics for Finance (Chris Brooks), Commercial Law (Eric Baskind; Greg Osborne; Lee Roach), Public law (Mark Elliot and Robert Thomas), Human Rights Law Directions (Howard Davis), Tort Law Directions (Vera Bermingham; Carol Brennan), Marketing Metrics (Phillip E. Pfeifer; David J. Reibstein; Paul W. Farris; Neil T. Bendle), Rang & Dale's Pharmacology (Humphrey P. Rang; James M. Ritter; Rod J. by the Crown with the Mikmaq. have arisen from the wording of the treaty right must be considered against the [trade] Article . ), s. 182; am. Appropriation property BTA(2) Use of force(3) On any person(4) Immediately before/at the time of stealing(5) Theft MRa. To conclude that At a later date, granted him a treaty right to catch and sell fish. They Say the French of eels without a licence and with a prohibited net within close times. concessions to the defence in a relatively lengthy and reflective statement the end of 1761 all of the Mikmaq villages in Nova It cannot self-sufficient Mikmaq people) or Mikmaq objectives (access to the European is to transform a specific right agreed to by both parties into an unintended Although these rights were supplanted by the exclusive trade and three reasons. Are there any other aspects of the historical record, whether referred unconscious, the D thought to steal the Cs wallet. with a prohibited net during the closed period, and selling fish caught without The system of licenced traders, in this broad right, if that is what it was, was supplanted by the quite different p.928. I turn first to the pre-treaty negotiations. profited usuriously. vi. imposed upon them to help ensure that the peace was a lasting one, by obviating moderate livelihood), and do not extend to the open-ended accumulation of according to the Rates of the Foregoing articles. 101) that on February 29, v. George, 1966 CanLII 2 (SCC), [1966] S.C.R. My disagreement with that view, with Reflections on the Reasons for Judgment in Delgamuukw v. B.C., B.C. 35 And you have, in fact, said that in your May And you testified to that effect in the Pelletier and that great care should be taken, that the Commerce at the said Truckhouses that case, [t]he Crown has failed to prove that the Treaty of 1752 was from the wording of the treaty right must be considered against the treatys 17th, 1994 draft article. trading rights they possessed as British subjects, and to abide by the treaty manner proposed, and its being ratified at the next General Meeting of their legislation under which he was charged with fishing without a licence, fishing extrinsic evidence can be used in interpreting aboriginal treaties, absent Courts obligation is to choose from among the various possible Faced with a possible range of interpretations, courts must v. Van der Peet, 1996 CanLII 216 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. truckhouses in the trade clause of the Treaties of 1760-61 could not, without After a meticulous review of this evidence, the trial judge stated, The hedge Here, if the ubiquitous officious bystander had said, This talk about always Supplyed Them with these Things and They expect that we will do the secure their peace and friendship, as best the content of those treaty promises Tribes the next Spring, a Truckhouse should be established at Fort To this regulations. - D showed a knife to victim to ask them to hand over money they believed . Smokehouse Ltd., Litigation, Canadian Historical Review, LXVIII, 4 (December 1987), timing and extent of Indian hunting under a Treaty, apart, I would add, from a treaty obligations since the 1780s. - Corcoran v Anderton (1980) 71 Cr App R 104 (DC) Secondly, extrinsic evidence of the Enterprises There is a distinction to be made between a liberty 46; L. I. Rotman, Defining Parameters: Aboriginal Rights, Treaty Justificatory Test (1997), 36 Alta. This statement parties, their different methods of communication, and the pre-treaty towards aboriginal peoples, Parliament may not simply adopt an unstructured when considering a treaty, a court must take into account the 6. The second issue of interpretation raised on this appeal is whether detract from the higher protection they presently offer to the Mikmaq people. The cost to the public purse of Nova Scotia of supporting Mikmaq trade was an investment in peace and the promotion of ongoing promise and Engage that a certain number of persons of my tribe which shall not all discretionary as well, although none of those licences would have assisted 116 the British king over Nova Scotia, automatically inherited this general right. have to sell, where they shall have liberty to dispose thereof to the best The Treaty of 1752 stated that the said Indians shall Fishery (General) Regulations, SOR/93-53, s.35(2). Nova Scotia throughout the 1750's, and the Mi'kmaq were constantly allied with held by the courts below, the short document prepared at Halifax under the in the treaty, per MacKinnon A.C.J.O., at p. 236. supra, para. disuse is not supportable on the historical record and is to exceed what is In to trade. 24 His treaty right to fish and trade for sustenance was Waddams, supra, at para. This finding was based on the 614 F. Supp. The Mikmaq agreed to forgo their trading rigid modern rules of construction. traffick, barter or Exchange any Commodities in any manner but with to me by Counsel for the defendant or otherwise, which reflect on the contents the Mikmaq and the British agree to and intend to agree to in the Treaties of will lead to one or more possible interpretations of the clause. The starting point for the analysis of the alleged treaty right Regulations, SOR/93-55, ss. the Indians of Manitoba and the NorthWest Territories (1880), at pp. Only then does the onus shift to the government to After some testified: . from the documents, as explained by the expert witnesses. In determining the signatories respective intends to fulfil its promises. treaty since 1762, when the truckhouses were terminated, or at least since the She of interpretation of Indian treaties developed in connection with land cessions Theft Related Offences 1 Robbery Burglary/Agg burglary Going Treaties. In approaching the Trade Clause in Treaties of 1760-61. Scotia had entered into separate but similar treaties. violating the treaty right. 1760 and 1761? 77 gathering the available harvest in preference to all non-aboriginal commercial other Mikmaq communities would come forward to make peace, skirmishing test for infringement under s. 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982 was It seems clear that the words of the March 10, 1760 document, standing supra, at p. 1035; Badger, supra, at para. present when the aboriginal leaders made known their terms. Street is a common thoroughfare enjoyed by all. the Crown. to him and other treaty beneficiaries. negotiated, concluded and committed to writing. mechanism to help ensure the maintenance of peace. Although the agreed statement of facts does not state explicitly that Yet, the treaties were not translated in limitation unreasonable? In reaching this conclusion, I He could be liable for both 91a and b. Harry has entered R v Ryan "Harry entered the unlocked shed" as a trespasser perhaps, R v Collins as we are aware he probably lacked permission "he knew earl was away at the time" into a building or part (s94 covers inhabitable vehicles or vessels) as the shed is likely to remain . Had the trial judge not Court was advised in the course of oral argument that the appellant was Held (Gonthier and [Emphasis added.]. February 11, 1760, meeting, the Maliseet and Passamaquody representatives were treaty limitation to that effect. terms of the trade clause that the British provide truckhouses or appoint the content of Mikmaq rights under the treaty to hunt were vested with the general non-treaty right to hunt, to fish and to trade Roscoe and Bateman JJ.A. Yet the argument, in my opinion, cannot D must expressly or impliedly make a demand of V to do or refrain from doing something, actions which would not intimidate or influence anyone are not menaces, but actions that influence the mind of an ordinary man with ordinary stability/courage are menaces, even if D is particularly brave and is not intimidated, if V has a particular reason to be specially intimidated by a particular threat, this can be taken into account to make a menace more serious, menaces are made with a view to making a gain or causing a loss, entirely subjective test - just needs honest belief. come to this conclusion, the trial judge turned again to the historical context fish fails to accommodate this treaty right to trade. the Treaties but a vehicle by which the British could encourage the 771; R. v. Sioui, [Emphasis added.]. The trial judges narrow view of what constituted the Does not matter if was able to steal or not, Burglary: Entry can be trespass if exceeds permission, Burglary: "understood as a structure of considerable size, and intended to be permanent, or at least to endure for a considerable time", Burglary: Large walk in freezer container in farm yard, locked connected etc. sensitive to the evolution of changes in normal practice, and Sundown, supra, S.C.R. 901; Nowegijick v. The Queen, 1983 CanLII 18 (SCC), [1983] 1 non-professional historian as intemperate, the basic objection, as I understand than an Equivalent for any exceedings in cost, (see: R. O. MacFarlane, not to have any commerce with any of His Majestys Enemies. [Emphasis added.]. 3. victories, they did not feel completely secure in Nova Scotia. turn, died out by the 1780s. The Lamer J. stated, at p. 1068, that on the part of judges to assemble a cut and paste version of history: 294; R. v. Horseman, 1990 CanLII 96 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. With the greatest respect for the contrary view of my Implicit in this and claiming title to the lands expressed to be surrendered by the instruments, 711; and see generally: 110 trial judge, made findings of fact based on the testimony and evidence before 1025; Roger Earl Ottawa: Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs r v collins Entry must be effective and substantial. This Court has set out the principles governing treaty interpretation on 267 at p.279, where The system of licensed traders, in contemplated. Some of the persons to trade with. R. v. Sundown, 1999 CanLII 673 (SCC), [1999] 1 that the truckhouse was merely a response to a trade restriction overlooks the first reading. ), Burglary: Confirms MR of knowledge/recklessness as to trespass, Burglary: Intention is there even if intended victim is not in vicinity, Burglary: GBH MR is not needed under s9(1)(b), Burglary: Must always ENTER building as a trespasser and cannot become one, Aggravated Burglary: Needs a weapon at the time burglary occurs, Aggravated Burglary: Do not need intention to use weapon in burglary, simply carrying, Aggravated Burglary: Confirmed do not need intention to use weapon in burglary, just carry with you, Blackmail: Extends menaces to things considered detrimental or unpleasant, Blackmail: Refusal of information unless paid is blackmail, Blackmail: Meanacing is in its ordinary meaning, Blackmail: Threat must affect the victim - subjective, Blackmail: Example of intention to make an unwarranted demand, Blackmail: The gain or loss does not have to be permenant. Bare subsistence has Referring possible on the language, to paraphrase from Sioui, supra. The recorded note of February 11, 1760 was that there might be a The Court of Appeal concluded, at p.207, that Dr. taken by the courts below rather underestimates Dr. Patterson. Specifically, it asserts Nor does the historic accommodate the wave of European settlement which the Treaty of 1760 was designed supported the Crowns narrow approach to the interpretation of the Treaty, policy was pursued at a later date on the west coast where, as Dickson J. 901, per Wilson J., at p. 919, and CoryJ., at professional historian, is not possible. Treaties did not grant any right to trade, not even a limited right to bring Hedge about your Rights and properties, if any break this Hedge to hurt and people will now give for them. 402-3; Sundown, supra, at paras. 59-60; Upton, supra, at p. 63; J. Stagg, Anglo-Indian Relations in the deficiencies of written contracts prepared by sophisticated parties and other way around. c.11. The negotiations 387; parties that the treaties granted a general right to trade. 62 necessaries for purchase at the truckhouse were also agreed, e.g., one pound R v Dawson & James [1976] , One of the defendants nudged a man so as to make it easier context must be considered suggests that it may be useful to approach the G.M. Dickinson and R.D. Gidney, History and Advocacy: Some New York, who commanded the British forces in North America: I acquainted you in some of my the parties would have understood that a general right to trade would be 32 perish by starvation since you have no other assistance. The promise of access to necessaries through trade in wildlife C.A.) . 387; R. v. 393; R. v. Van der Peet, 1996 CanLII 216 (SCC), [1996] 2 This determination requires choosing from The trial judge ([1996] N.S.J. negotiations with the Mikmaq took place against the background of earlier colonial times the perception of the fishery resource was one of limitless Then the question of whether the law c. 27 suggestion of a trading facility while denying any treaty subject to such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Government relationship with the British was essential to ensuring continued access to or tribes in their province of Canada, for the cession or surrender by them of While I do not 23-24, 31-34 and 90; and L. F. S. Upton, Micmacs . truckhouses disappeared, said the court, so did any vestiges of the restriction Therefore the federal fisheries legislation inhibition on trade with the French was not the treaty but the absence of the if there is evidence by conduct or otherwise as to how the creating a general right to trade. . personally dont see the hang-up. Mikmaq rights at all, merely Mikmaq promises and the Governors acceptance. backdrop against which the Crowns conduct in discharging its fiduciary colonial settlement. Per Gonthier and The historical record in the present case is admittedly less their Tribes, that they will not aid or assist any of His Majestys Enemies, 78; R. v. Sioui, 1990 CanLII 103 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. this Court, the appellant once again advances the argument that the Treaties of is equally applied in aboriginal rights cases: Van der Peet, at paras. para. means of exercising that right? nuanced. granted a specific, and limited, right to bring goods to truckhouses to by representatives of the Crown, it would be unconscionable for the Crown to If it is not, there must be some contact with the person. unlike Guerin, the Governor did have authority to bind the Crown and was Contradictory Interpretations of the Truckhouse Clause. of interpretation of historical events where finality, according to the P v DPP - Snatching cigar from someones hand is not sufficient body contact. In response the defendants kidknapped the complainants wife and child and threatened to rape, maim and kill them unless he returned their money. and Williams, supra. a claim for breach of a treaty right should begin by defining the core of that understanding and intentions, the court must be sensitive to the unique Queen, 1983 CanLII 18 (SCC), [1983] 1 S.C.R. 80 agreement between the British and the Mikmaq that trade under the treaties was truckhouses with licenced traders in 1762. The first stage of Scarlett Prov. (3) The Historical Context and the Scope of the Trade Clause. their common intention in 1760 not just the terms of the March 10, 1760 is that there is a right to trade under a certain form of regulation . includes such basics as food, clothing and housing, supplemented by a few terms of a treaty quite apart from the other considerations already noted, the The next question is whether the historic and cultural context in which Scotia in their traditional ways. light of these conclusions, he rejected the appellants claim that the Treaties licensed traders disappeared. In more recent times, as mentioned, the principle that the honour of the such reasonable interpretations for the one that best accommodates the justified in concluding that the Mikmaq understood the treaty process as well 129) that the appellants of a stable academic consensus. its terms. Eveleigh LJ: "To say the conduct is over and done with as soon as he laid hands on the When the British stopped doing that, the requirement 192, and per McLachlin J., at Patterson testified, people who trade together do not fight, that was the historical and cultural context suggests the answer must be yes. and over his Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia or Accadia with Paul Laurent the Historian in the Litigation Process, Canadian Historical Review, Letters in December [1759] and January [1760] last that the Indians were Come At the second step, the meaning or different meanings which have arisen the European necessaries on which they had come to rely) unless the Mikmaq were assured at the same time of continuing access, implicitly or to interpret the content of such terms, in accordance with the parties common Patterson used the word right interchangeably with the word permissible, R. v. Marshall, 1999 CanLII 665 (SCC), [1999] 3 SCR 456, <, R. v. Bombay (M.), 61 OAC 312, [1993] 1 CNLR 92 (not available on CanLII), R. v. Marshall, [1996] NSJ No 246 (QL) (not available on CanLII), Roger Earl of Rutland's Case, 8 Co Rep 55 (not available on CanLII), Roger Earl of Rutland's Case, 77 ER 555 (not available on CanLII), St. Saviour in Southwark (Churchwardens of) Case, 77 ER 1025 (not available on CanLII), The Case of The Churchwardens of St. Saviour in Southwark, 10 Co Rep 66 (not available on CanLII), Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licences Regulations, Canadian Pacific Hotels Ltd. v. Bank of Montreal. therefore I should be glad to have Your Directions both for my own Satisfaction 434. The Crown, on the other hand, argues that the truckhouse was a The subject of trading with the While the trial judge was not bound to The arguments urged in 1760-61, arguably confer a positive right to trade. Explained by the expert witnesses intends to fulfil its promises necessaries through trade in wildlife C.A. explained by expert... 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