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Originally Posted by JDK71
i find it funny how Some people like to tell land owners what they can do or cant do on there land
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I’d love to find out what exactly the King’s representatives and the chiefs and elders said during treaty negotiations. Hard to imagine first nations being told that they wouldn't be sharing the land and its resources.
The immigrants have done pretty well. Individual property rights plus
literally trillions of dollars in benefits received from the land and its resource depletion.
That said, a friend’s family were crofters forced out of their scottish homes and brought to Canada in the 1800s and placed in debt to the same landlord who had access to the vast acreage in Canada. Essentially refugees. She was already quite wealthy. Hundreds of millions in wealth in todays dollars.
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“ on the lower estimate equivalent to £203,000,000 in 2019.”
“ Known for her stance against Catholicism, she played a leading role in the Highland Clearances as she continued the clearances initiated by her father-in-law.[7] Many crofters on her lands were re-settled to the North West territories of Regina and Wapella in Canada, possibly due to the shares she held in the Canadian Pacific Railway.[1]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Gordon_Cathcart
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Everyone should read about how much Lord Selkirk paid for his land.