“J” to the Statement of Evidence of Marilyn Gabriel Chief of Kwantlen First Nation
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390 Exhibit “J” to the Statement of Evidence of Marilyn Gabriel Chief of Kwantlen First Nation 391 Creation of Kwantlen Indian Reserves 1858-1930 Part II: Federal Reserves 1871-1930 Kwantlen Chief Casimer, 1925. Prepared for Kwantlen First Nation by Cairn Crockford October 31, 2010 392 Table of Contents Preface.........................................................................................................................................1 Documents .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Note to Reader ................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ..............................................................................................................................3 Kwantlen Reserve Lands 1871- 1878...............................................................................5 Indian Superintendent I.W. Powell 1872- 1875..................................................................... 6 Howse Subdivision Survey 1874..............................................................................................................8 Lenihan Indian Superintendent 1875-1879..........................................................................18 Joint Indian Reserve Commission 1876-1878 ......................................................................21 Indian Reserve Commission – G.M. Sproat 1878-1880 ............................................ 25 Preliminary Investigations on the Fraser River October 1878 – January 1879........25 Census of Tribes of Lower Fraser River............................................................................................. 27 Preliminary Selection of Kwantlen Reserves: January –March 1879.................................... 31 Allocation of Kwantlen Reserves: June 1879 ........................................................................35 Fraser River Reserves ................................................................................................................................ 37 New Westminster Reserves..................................................................................................................... 44 Minutes of Decision and Instructions to Surveyors ............................................................49 Minutes of Decision..................................................................................................................................... 49 Instructions to Surveyors May 1880 ................................................................................................... 50 Survey of Kwantlen Reserves 1880-1881 ..............................................................................52 Survey of Stave River Reserves 1880.................................................................................................. 52 Survey of Fraser River and New Westminster Reserves 1881 ................................................ 59 Plan of Kwantlen Reserves 1882...............................................................................................61 Federal Township Plans...............................................................................................................64 Schedule of Indian Reserves in the Dominion 1900-1913 ..................................... 66 Schedule of Indian Reserves 1900-1902 ........................................................................................... 66 Schedule of Indian Reserves 1913........................................................................................................ 68 Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia...... 70 - i - 393 Table of Figures Figure 1: Summary of Kwantlen Reserves ......................................................................... 4 Figure 2: “Indian Gathering, New Westminster, Queen's Birthday,” May 1873. .............. 6 Figure 3: Portion of Signature Page of Petition to I. W. Powell, May 1873. ..................... 8 Figure 4: Portion of Langley Island “Indian Village Reserve,” 1874............................... 10 Figure 5: Diagram of sections on “Langley Island,” (No. 6) illustrating 20 acre allotments, 1874........................................................................................................ 12 Figure 6: “Indian Villages Reserve” at Whonock (No. 1), 1874...................................... 15 Figure 7: Portion of signature page of petition to I. W. Powell, 14 July 1874. ................ 16 Figure 8: Lenihan Invitation to Reception for Governor General of Canada, August 1876. ................................................................................................................................... 20 Figure 9: Portion of “Census of the Indian Tribes of the Lower Fraser Country,” 19 June 1877........................................................................................................................... 24 Figure 10: Census Langley - Village McMillan Island, December 1878......................... 29 Figure 11: Census Oo a nuk Village R bank Fraser River, December 1878. ................... 30 Figure 12: Jemmett plan indicating Indian Reserves at Brownsville, January................. 34 Figure 13: Summary of Minutes of Decision for Whonock and Langley Indians............ 37 Figure 14: Portion of Sproat's plan illustrating the McMillan Island, Langley and Ōo-a- nuck Reserves, 1880. ................................................................................................ 39 Figure 15: Copy of sketch plan of “temporary reservations” at Stave River, June 1879, with later annotations in 1905................................................................................... 42 Figure 16: Portion of plan of Stave River Reserves, attached to Federal Instructions to Surveyors, 1880. ....................................................................................................... 42 Figure 17: Plan of Langley and Muskweam Indian Reserves New Westminster, 1880... 44 Figure 18: Plan indicating General New Westminster, Langley, and Musqueam Reserves on the site of the former Colonial Government Reserve. ......................................... 45 Figure 19: Portion of Plan of Langley Indian Reserve allotted for a burial ground (No. 7). ................................................................................................................................... 46 Figure 20: Gravehouse at Kikait, late 1860s..................................................................... 47 Figure 21: Summary of Instructions to Surveyors for Whonock and Langley Indians.... 51 Figure 22: Field Sketch of Ō-oamuck Reserve, Stave River 28 September 1880............ 55 Figure 23: Jemmett 1880 field plan indicating location of Ō-oamuck and Langley Reserves on the Stave River. .................................................................................... 57 Figure 24: Portion of Plan of Langley Indian Reserves, 1882 McMillan Island (No. 6), illustrating “Indian Village” and fields..................................................................... 60 Figure 25: Portion of Plan of Langley Reserves indicating surveyed Reserve in Section 21 (No. 7).................................................................................................................. 61 Figure 26: Stave River portion of an original of Mohun’s Plan of the Langley Reserves, 1882........................................................................................................................... 62 Figure 27: Stave River Reserves depicted on Department of Interior Plan of Township No. 15, 1887.............................................................................................................. 65 Figure 28: Stave River Reserves depicted on Department of Interior Plan of Township No. 15, 1892.............................................................................................................. 65 - ii - 394 Federal Reserve Creation 1871- 1930 Draft 31 October 2010 Preface The purpose of this Report is to present an analysis of the history of Reserve allocations for the Kwantlen Nation. The research for the Report was undertaken as part of a larger project on Kwantlen history directed by Duncan McLaren. The Report presents the history of Reserve allocations chronologically in two main sections: Part I, Colonial Reserves, presents the history of Reserve allocations during the Colonial Period, 1858-1871. This section describes the allocation by Governor James Douglas of four Kwantlen Reserves between 1858 and 1864, and the subsequent reduction of two of those Reserves by Chief Commission of Lands and Work, J.W. Trutch in 1868-1869. Part II, Federal Reserves, presents the history of Reserve allocations in the period following Confederation in 1871 to the final transfer of Indian Reserves within the Railway Belt to the Department of Indian Affairs by Privy Council Order in Council 208 in 1930. The focus of Part II is on the Kwantlen Reserves allocated by Indian Reserve Commissioner G. M. Sproat in 1878. Documents During the research undertaken for this Report more than 300 historic documents were collected that refer to Kwantlen Nation and their lands during the period from 1858 to 1930. These documents include correspondence, reports, maps, field notebooks and other material created by various government officials and their representatives. The documents