Join us for an Evening Session of Legal History for
Legal Professionals
On October
28th Professor Jim Phillips, Osgoode
Society Editor-in-Chief, will present the
next lecture in our Canadian legal history
lecture series.
No Thought of Reconciliation:
The New Dominion and the Indian Acts,1867-1914
Monday October 28th at 5:30 p.m
WeirFoulds LLP
66
Wellington St.W. - 41st Floor
At Confederation there was very
little colonial legislation about indigenous peoples. The first
federal legislation on the subject was passed in 1868, and Parliament
augmented that more than two dozen times between then and 1914. The
major statute was the Indian
Act of 1876, but it was continually amended over the
ensuing decades. Professor Phillips will discuss the major policy
goals of this legislative output, which was principally aimed at
assimilating indigenous peoples into settler ways of life and
culture. He will also sketch out the reactions of the indigenous
people themselves to these legislative efforts to undermine and
eventually destroy indigenous culture.
Professor Jim Phillips, Osgoode Society
Editor-in-Chief
* approval
pending for 60 minutes EDI Professionalism Credit from the Law
Society for Ontario.
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