Comments on a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor and map-maker who travelled 90,000 kilometres and mapped 4.9 million square kilometres of North America.
Duration: 58:14.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.