Human Rights History and Royal Proclamation 1763

Royal Proclamation 1763: Taken together, though, they make up Canadas human rights history not all of it good. Documents on display, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Royal Proclamation 1763 IT It established that aboriginal title to land existed and continued to exist and all land in the colonies would be considered aboriginal land until ceded by treaty. And it banned settlers from claiming land, unless it has been first bought by the Crown from First Nations and then sold to the settlers. The proclamation set up the title-transfer process, saying it could only happen by mutual consent following a big public meeting between the Crown and First Nation, a process that established how future treaties were negotiated. And it reserved vast swaths of territory in the interior of the continent for indigenous peoples. WHY IT S Its often described as the Indian Magna Carta because it established indigenous land rights that exists to this day and ONE got rained on and the Queens signature is now fading. Another is a homely piece of lined paper covered in scribbles. Another is a bit of a mystery, perhaps created as part of a young law clerks education. of the historic records on loan to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights from the national archive in Ottawa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.