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We are longtime subscribers, and I was delighted this morning to see that venerable and well-liked Stephen Hume is back writing the six-part series on BC@150: Essays in Confederation. He has done well in this initial column on unraveling some of the complexity of the past related to B.C. history, and indeed all of Canada. The mists of the past First Nations, the hint of a reflection of all of Canada written poignantly and more balanced on the historical perspectives.
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It didn’t include women, who were not yet persons in Canadian law, but were legally chattels of their fathers or husbands.
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Nor did it extend to Indigenous British Columbians who had been annexed into the colony before provincehood, along with their traditional and historic lands. Among its first acts, the new province would strip its First Nations citizens the same ones welcomed to the Confederation Day party in New Westminster of the right to vote for their new government. They would subsequently be denied the right to organize politically and, a bit later, prohibited even from hiring lawyers to represent their interests in court.
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