Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (HC) Dene painter Marianne Nicolson

painter Marianne Nicolson

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Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (HC) Dene painter Marianne NicolsonIn Flawed Precedent, preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil thoroughly investigates a contentious legal case. In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ruled in St. Catherines Milling and Lumber Company v. The Queen, a case involving the Saulteaux peoples land rights in Ontario. This precedent setting case would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years, despite the racist assumptions about