Our invited speaker for Tuesday, July 18, 2023 will be Brian Ballantyne from BoundaryIntelligence. The title of his talk is “The spatial extent of Aboriginal title in Canada: parcels & boundaries”. Aboriginal title is being asserted/recognized to many parcels across Canada, parcels that were never ceded by Indigenous peoples to the Crown. Parcels include Crown land, watercourses and freehold land. Five court decisions and six case studies show that if boundaries are defined, then Aboriginal title has meaning; if not, then claims flounder.
