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And does it really matter more than 150 years later? Well, actually, it does. The Terms of Union, including Article 13, remain embedded in the Canadian Constitution to this day. In 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed 1846 (Oregon Treaty) as the date when “the Crown acquired radical or underlying title to all the land in British Columbia at the time of sovereignty.” This was ground zero for colonialism in B.C. the foundation of Article 13. Few historians other than Daniel Clayton have explored the Oregon Treaty of 1846. But the WSÁNEĆ people knew it only too well. The late Dave Elliot recalled: “It was 1846 when they divided up the country and made the United States and Canada. We lost our land and our fishing grounds. It very nearly destroyed us; all of a sudden, we became poor people. Our people were rich once because we had everything. We had all those runs of salmon and that beautiful way of fishing. When they divided up the coun ....