Telling how governor douglas renamed him ‘coal tyee,’” the victoria daily colonist (victoria, bc), 5 march 1933 Oral traditions of the hul'q'umi'num' coast salish of kuper island and. Under the douglas treaties, the indigenous people around victoria, the saanich peninsula, what is now nanaimo, and port hardy agreed to share part of their territories to allow settlement In exchange, james douglas provided a few material goods (mostly cash, clothing and blankets). The douglas treaties cover approximately 930 square kilometres (360 sq mi) of land around victoria, saanich, sooke, nanaimo and port hardy, all on vancouver island, that were exchanged for cash, clothing and blankets. Between 1850 and 1854, james douglas negotiated 14 treaties with several first nations on vancouver island
These came to be known as the douglas treaties, which cover approximately 927 square kilometers (358 square miles) of land around victoria, saanich, sooke, nanaimo, and port hardy. It also includes transcriptions of the text which include the introductory descriptions lacking in papers connected with the. Between 1850 and 1854, douglas made 14 different treaties on vancouver island with different first nations The land covered in the douglas treaties spanned from victoria to sooke, the saanich peninsula, nanaimo, and fort rupert. Like treaties in central canada from the same period, these treaties were simple land transactions between the first nations of the island and the british crown. The douglas treaties were a series of agreements made between the british colony of vancouver island and local first nations peoples in the 1850s and 1860s
A total of 927 sq km was purchased, about 3% of the area of the island In return the people received a few blankets, small reserves surrounding their village sites, and hunting and fishing rights on adjacent unoccupied land Historians disagree about whether douglas's commitment to the principle of aboriginal title later changed.
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