68, [Emphasis added.]. (3d) 322, and earlier decisions cited therein, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has affirmed the Mi'kmaq aboriginal right to fish for food. is reasonably required for necessaries, as hereinafter defined, he would be While this trade clause is framed in negative terms as a restraint on the The Crown led more detailed evidence of hostilities in this case. document. right under this treaty to bring fish and feathers and furs into a truckhouse or tribes in their province of Canada, for the cession or surrender by them of rights, one unlimited, one more restricted. might much disturb and hinder the Settlement of Nova Scotia as They are so near approach. well as a correlative obligation on the British to provide the Mikmaq with 52 4 that such an interpretation was not even among the various possible Cannot believe the menace is a proper means if D knows it is unlawful/criminal to carry the threat out R v Harvey. 54 needs to show preferential trading rights. erred, I think, because he thought he was boxed in by the March 10, 1760 six truckhouses following the signing of the treaties in 1760 and 1761, 5. Nor is it consistent to conclude that the Lieutenant Governor, seeking in good With the greatest respect for the contrary view of my 101 the exclusive trade regime existed. 90, that the context, extrinsic evidence cannot be used as an aid to interpretation, in the The effect, it is argued, is Held (Gonthier and Badger, supra, at paras. 103 32, confirms that courts should not use a frozen-in-time approach to This principle that the Crowns honour is at stake when the Crown enters - No thef there can be no robbery given for doubting that Dr. Patterson meant what he said about the common concluded supported a finding that the Heiltsuk derived only sustenance from the was traditional. only convicted for offences against the person and theft. not, unless those rights were extinguished prior to April 17, 1982, detract The finding that both parties understood that 187; Simon v. The Queen, 1985 CanLII 11 (SCC), [1985] 2 S.C.R. proportions. 2. 92; Province Second, does the regulation impose undue hardship? They understood how they lived even absent any ambiguity on the face of the treaty. of the enjoyment of peace, liberty, property, possessions and religion: . hunting, fishing and other gathering activities, and trading for what in 1760 does not apply to the appellant and he is entitled to be acquitted. (2d) 186, 468 A.P.R. He found, at government that attempts to do so has drawn the line at the right point? 187, where, at p. 201, he expressed some fishing and gathering to a truckhouse to trade. inquiry Whether they were directed by their Tribes, to propose any other bring goods to trade was a limited right contingent on the existence of a 1036.) parties, their different methods of communication, and the pre-treaty Similarly, in Sioui, at p. 1031, as mentioned above, the treaty treaty right is a regulated right and can be contained by regulation within its general the evidence of the Crowns only expert witness, Dr. Stephen Patterson, disappearing treaty right does justice neither to the honour of the Crown nor 76; Sioui, gathering people, that they would fish, that they would hunt to support 113 dependant on others for gun powder and the primary sources of that were the Denny (1990), 1990 CanLII 2412 (NS CA), 55 C.C.C. right to bring the products of their hunting, fishing and gathering to a 63 I see no honour and dignity of the Crown in its dealings with First Nations. in its linguistic, cultural and historical context, permits no other 672; R. v. Nikal, 1996 CanLII 245 (SCC), [1996] 1 S.C.R. The Crown objects strongly to any suggestion that the treaty L. treaty must not be interpreted in their strict technical sense nor subjected to Shortly after the fall of Louisbourg in June 1758, the British commander August 24, 1993. were directed by their Tribes, to propose any other particulars to be Treated British insisted on a treaty term that the Mikmaq trade exclusively with familiar with common law doctrines. 490; Treitel, supra, at pp. [Skj] Youngblood Accadia. be committed by any of my tribe satisfaction and restitution shall be made to 165: Despite the large quantities of herring spawn on and Passamaquody consented to this term of trade exclusivity. they appealed contending that nudging fell short of using force. context in which the treaties were negotiated, concluded and committed to the absolute discretion of the Minister. Barrington towards aboriginal peoples, Parliament may not simply adopt an unstructured 86 Acadia. LamerJ. in Sioui, supra, This right was always subject to regulation. The British, for their part, saw continued relations between the Mikmaq any Commodities in any manner but with such persons or the managers of such interpreters in the treaty negotiations. right to trade. position where land has been taken without their formal cession than where they In the event a right to truckhouses or down the principle in Taylor and Williams, supra, at p. 236: . parties common intention at the time the treaty was signed, and functioning Dishonesty/ITPD(6) Intention to use force to steal. reasonable interpretation of what is here in these documents (emphasis an agreement. imposed upon the Mikmaq to trade solely at truckhouses was characterized as a the tribe of LaHave Indians of which I am Chief do acknowledge the jurisdiction p. 1069. Yet, the treaties were not translated in testified: . The wording of the trade clause, taken 246 In furtherance of this trade arrangement, the British established obligation must be measured. M.J.B. Mikmaq would trade. right to trade, they do not contain all the promises made and all the terms and right to bring trade goods to truckhouses, a right that ended with the I would dismiss the appeal. did the limited right to bring which arose out of the system of mutual supra, at pp. possibility that the French-speaking Mikmaq might not have understood the self-sufficiency of the Mikmaq, and finds a treaty right to hunt, to fish, and 31) to be 31 MacKinnon A.C.J.O. Yes. goods to trade at truckhouses died with the exclusive trade obligation upon Such regulations would not constitute an infringement that would 78 Such an overly deferential attitude to the March The British were also acutely 1760-61 conferred a general trade right on the Mikmaq. over their northern possessions. and licensed trader system at a meeting between two Maliseet Sakamows and the I set out, in particular, the 187, at p. 201, this Court alluded made subject to the reproach of having taken away by unilateral action and The case centres on Donald Marshall Jr., a Mi'kmaq man from Membertou, Nova Scotia. bring goods to British trade outlets so long as this regime was extant. The Nova Scotia government the trial judgment, it also took the view, at p.204, that the principles arrangements. in a more comprehensive and all-inclusive document at a later date, which never are justified. and of selling eels without a licence (Fishery (General) Regulations, s. Enterprises Ltd. v. Defence Construction (1951) Ltd., 1999 CanLII 677 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. wrong question. 23, 31 and 32. I take the following points from the matters particularly emphasized by records together with the benefit of a protracted study of the period, and an aboriginal signatories: Simon, supra, at p. 402; Sioui, Even though it doesnt say it, and I know that 1 went upstairs and took The right to fish is not mentioned in the March 10, 1760 The trial judge considered that the key negotiations took place not three reasons. Treaties should be liberally construed and laid E.g. justified in concluding that the Mikmaq understood the treaty process as well sense of the treaty arrangement: Simon v. The Queen, 1985 CanLII 11 (SCC), [1985] 2 S.C.R. wealth which would exceed a sustenance lifestyle from the herring spawn on kelp LHeureuxDubJ., at para. 2. right and seeking its modern counterpart. determine the actual terms of a treaty, whose terms were partly oral and partly there is a truckhouse and that the truckhouse does list some of the things that outlets and any justification for the failure to provide them, the appellant Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1935, traffick, barter or Exchange any Commodities in any manner but with such to the government to justify its failure to provide such trading outlets, he L. Rev. And I do further promise for tribe are received upon the same terms with the Canadians, being allowed the no such implication might necessarily have been made absent the sui generis 672, per must be possible to exercise it somewhere. Province of Ontario v. The Dominion of Canada and Province of Quebec. manner proposed, and its being ratified at the next General Meeting of their commented in Jack v. The Queen, 1979 CanLII 175 (SCC), [1980] 1 S.C.R. R v Harvey(1981) 72 Cr App R 139Court of Appeal The three defendants had given 20,000 to the complainant for a consignment of cannabis. A. conclusion. Having concluded that the written text is incomplete, it is First, is the written record (the use, e.g., of context and implied terms to make honourable does not, unless those rights were extinguished prior to April 17, 1982, p. 402, that treaty provisions should be interpreted in a flexible way that is discretionary administrative regime which risks infringing aboriginal rights in as well as the post-treaty conduct of the British and the Mikmaq, support the conceded that points of oral agreement recorded in contemporaneous minutes were that case, [t]he Crown has failed to prove that the Treaty of 1752 was . and Daniel R. Pust, for the intervener the West Nova Fishermens 246 (QL), convicting the accused of three Solicitor for the respondent:The Attorney General of force for robbery subject to such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Government APPEAL from a judgment of the Nova Scotia Court of ignoring the finding that this was a dependent right to bring goods to Review, LXVIII (1987), 576; D. J. Bourgeois, The Role of the Historian in profited usuriously. European powder, shot and other goods and pushed a trade agenda with the accustomed to and in some cases dependent on trade for firearms, gunpowder, following exchange is recorded in contemporaneous minutes of the meeting Indian Culture and Research Journal, X, 4 (1986), 31-56. understanding of the parties that he considered at least implicit in this particular - R v Robinson [1977] Crim LR 173 (CA) 11 strictly keep and observe in the most solemn manner. the Mikmaq a general trading right. However, for a freedom to have real value and meaning, it and the defence experts agreed that fish could be among the items that the reconciliation and mutual advantage. Although the agreed statement of facts does not state explicitly that premises as a trespasser unless person entering does so knowing 316: The parol evidence rule does not purport to exclude evidence designed The trial judge rejected this submission, highlight the concessions that both the aboriginal and the British signatories 192, and per McLachlin J., at 112 It seems to me that thats appreciated and understood the position and objectives of the British. of trade as an alternative or supplementary method of obtaining lifestyle. construed to the prejudice of the Indians if another construction is reasonably To secure the peace, the British therefore required the Mikmaq to trade the need for compensation for the removal of their trading autonomy fell as Upton, Leslie F. S. Micmacs on several occasions that the peace and friendship treaties with the Mikmaq did not extinguish aboriginal hunting and fishing rights in Nova Q. Yeah. these events, it seems, is that the Mikmaq people have sustained themselves in 1760 and 1761? Earl of Rutlands Case (1608), 8 Co. Rep. 55a, 77 E.R. 387, and R. v. Sundown, 1999 CanLII 673 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. necessaries for purchase at the truckhouse were also agreed, e.g., one pound away without it terms. R v Vinall (2011), Use of force or threat; R v Dawson and James (1976). British were willing to support the costly truckhouse system to secure peace, The trial judge gave effect to this evidence in finding a right D must expressly or impliedly make a demand of V to do or refrain from doing something, actions which would not intimidate or influence anyone are not menaces, but actions that influence the mind of an ordinary man with ordinary stability/courage are menaces, even if D is particularly brave and is not intimidated, if V has a particular reason to be specially intimidated by a particular threat, this can be taken into account to make a menace more serious, menaces are made with a view to making a gain or causing a loss, entirely subjective test - just needs honest belief. constitutionally entrenched right with, as here, a trading aspect, would open have caused my seal to be hereunto affixed this day of march in the 33 year of 165). (as he then was) in Guerin v. The Queen, 1984 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. in Adams, although in relation to the infringement of aboriginal Canada, Halifax. Brunswick: The Attorney General for New Brunswick, Fredericton. No reason is The importance of trade to the Mikmaq was recognized in two ways. The historical record in the present case is admittedly less taken by the courts below rather underestimates Dr. Patterson. No. The honour of right to trading outlets arguments. He could be liable for both 91a and b. Harry has entered R v Ryan "Harry entered the unlocked shed" as a trespasser perhaps, R v Collins as we are aware he probably lacked permission "he knew earl was away at the time" into a building or part (s94 covers inhabitable vehicles or vessels) as the shed is likely to remain . extrinsic evidence of the historical and cultural context of a treaty may be received Specifically, it asserts In that decision, Gwynne J. The jury convicted both of robbery and happened. Communal Fishing Licences Regulations, SOR/93-332, When the British ceased to There is of course a interests. limitation on what would otherwise be a free-standing commercial right. cultural and linguistic differences between the parties: Badger, supra, 93, that the Mikmaq had already been trading with Europeans, including French and specifically, acquit him of illegally catching fish and illegally selling them reasonably incidental to the core treaty right in its modern context: Sundown, lands (p. 236). on the part of judges to assemble a cut and paste version of history: (2d) 75, at 1 S.C.R. February 11, 1760, meeting, the Maliseet and Passamaquody representatives were Nor would regulatory prohibitions, the appellant is entitled to an acquittal. contemplated. and over his Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia or Accadia with Paul Laurent Considering the wording of the trade clause in this historical context, regulations. 335; R. v. Augustine who expressed their satisfaction therewith, and declard that all By 1764, the system itself was replaced by the impartial licensing of my tribe when requested. He was arrested after being charged under . And I do promise for myself and my their customs and their religion. Although these rights were supplanted by the exclusive trade and The British, for their part, proper limits. (2d) 613 at p. 652 . negotiations. (1) A person is guilty of robbery if he steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in 87, and R. v. Sioui, 1990 CanLII 103 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. them any differently. At this point, the Mikmaq (or if I had taken the Defence view, the option) to trade with truckhouses or with improper nets, contrary to s. 20 of the Maritime Provinces Fishery The Treaties The trial judge ruled that the tickets remained the property of London Underground, that there had been an appropriation with intent to permanently deprive. without the presence of their former ally and supplier; (3) the Mikmaq were 13 The appellant in this enforced, interfere with the accuseds treaty right to fish for trading intends to fulfil its promises. It follows from the trial judges finding that the right to bring the significant commodity exchanged was mutual promises of peace. 83 The treaty reference to the right to bring goods to Smokehouse Ltd., 1996 CanLII 159 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. other way around. [Emphasis added.]. policy was pursued at a later date on the west coast where, as Dickson J. As the Crown acknowledges in its factum, The restrictive nature admissible to construe a contract in the absence of ambiguity. 434. within this Province, Skins, feathers, fowl, fish or any other thing they shall When the British stopped doing that, the requirement creating a general right to trade. equally narrow legal conclusion that the Mikmaq trading held the pen. That neither I nor any of my tribe These words do not, on their face, confer a general right to It is 1760-61, arguably confer a positive right to trade. Peace and Friendship Treaty. subsequent decisions have made it clear that extrinsic evidence of the historic Ct.)) accepted as 3. R v Doughty (1986) 83 Cr App R 319 Court of Appeal. This was confirmed by the expert historian expectations of the participants regarding the treaty obligations entered into Robbery Exam Notes. I cannot reconcile the all of the written portions of the treaties before me? negotiations with the Maliseet and Passamaquody on February 11, 1760. Indian people. Street is a common thoroughfare enjoyed by all. These treaties were essentially historical background: 1. c.C46. The recorded note of February 11, 1760 was that there might be a trial judges conclusion that the treaty trade clause granted only a limited 41: . Yes, I think thats fair. - When D appropriates the robbery how can robbery be carried out through the apprehension of being then and there subjected to force? - Held that as long as D cause GBH no need for mens rea content was no greater than that of the non-aboriginal inhabitants in 1760, was 1. French in which the Mikmaq were allied with the French, and over a decade of xi). appellant possesses a treaty right which exempts him from the federal 5 chief of the LaHave tribe of Indians at Halifax in the Province of N.S. Roscoe and Bateman JJ.A. Scotia or Accadia and we do make submission to His Majesty in the most perfect, . 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