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    Fish, law, and colonialism : the legal capture of salmon in British Columbia / Douglas C. Harris.

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    • Title:Fish, law, and colonialism : the legal capture of salmon in British Columbia / Douglas C. Harris.
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    • Author/Creator:Harris, Douglas C. (Douglas Colebrook), author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:McDonald, Robert A. J., 1944-2019, donor.
    • Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Salmon fisheries--Law and legislation--British Columbia--History.
      Indians of North America--Fishing--Law and legislation--British Columbia--History.
    • Description:ix, 306 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
    • Summary:"Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal people of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and on law and colonialism, he examines the controversial nature of the colonial encounter at the local level. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and among government departments, local setter societies, and Aboriginal communities." "Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers, and secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a timely legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Aboriginal salmon fisheries in British Columbia."--Jacket.
    • Notes:Includes index.
      Includes bibliographical references: pages [271]-292.
    • ISBN:0802035981 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
      9780802035981 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
      0802084532 (paper ; acid-free paper)
      9780802084538 (paper ; acid-free paper)
    • Contents:1. Legal Capture
      Native Fisheries
      Common Law of Fisheries
      Treaty Rights
      Fisheries Act, 1877
      Salmon Fisheries Regulations, 1878
      Master and Servant Law in the Fisheries, 1877
      Increasing Surveillance, 1878-1887
      Native Fisheries Law
      Fishery Regulations, 1888
      Fishery Regulations, 1894
      2. Fish Weirs and Legal Cultures on Babine Lake, 1904-1907
      Babine Lake and Its People
      Permanent White Presence
      Departments of the Dominion
      Barricade Conflict, 1904
      Old Cannery Nets, 1905
      Barricade Conflict, 1906
      Surrender and Trial
      Ottawa Meetings
      Implementing the Agreement
      3. Law Runs Through It: Weirs, Logs, Nets, and Fly Fishing on the Cowichan River, 1877-1937
      Cowichan River and Its People
      Land, Logs, Weirs, and a Settler Society
      Protests, Prosecutions, and the Sport Fishery
      Cannery Boats and Tourism
      Royal Commissions
      Reverse Onus, Prosecutions, Nets, and Weirs
      4. Law and Colonialism
      Law and Colonialism, and British Columbia
      Anglo-Canadian Law and the British Columbia Fishery
      Native Law.
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