Plan showing 20,000 acres granted to E&N Railway Co. in lieu of settlers’ rights
Type: Document
Date: c. 1913-1925
History
This map shows 20,000 acres that were granted to the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Co. (E&N) throughout the Nelson, Nootka, Rupert and Sayward districts. The acres granted to the E&N under the Act are coloured red on the map. These were granted to the E&N by the government as compensation under the Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Agreement Ratification Act (1910) for land claimed by settlers prior to the Act. While the rights of settlers to the land were protected against the E&N, the land rights of the First Nations groups of Vancouver Island were completely ignored.
The impact of the E&N land grant can still be seen today as much of the land is still privately owned by resource extracting companies, including the forests around Cumberland.
From the Patrick Fagan Collection.
Description
1 map: multicoloured.
Item Details
- Materials: paper (fiber product)
- Classification: Category 8: Communication Objects > Documentary Objects > Graphic Documents > cartograph > map
- Accession Number: 2013.306.035
- Author: Electric Blueprint and Map Co. [printer]
- Donor: Berger, Terry (Fagan)
- Donated: 2013-04-11
- Size: 44 x 64 cm
- Credit: Digitized with the assistance of the British Columbia History Digitization Program and the Canadian Heritage Museums Assistance Program. Thank you for your support.
