CHARBONNEAU – I believe the people of the Cowichan Tribes – ArmchairMayor.ca

October 30, 2025

FEAR HAS BEEN STOKED that the Cowichan Tribes are going to seize properties on a piece of land awarded them by the B.C. Supreme Court.

I believe the Cowichan Tribes when they say that they won’t.

While the court case took more than 500 days over a period of nearly five years, the case is relatively simple:

The B.C. government sold lands that didn’t belong to them.

James Douglas, governor of British Columbia in 1858, didn’t want it that way. He told the Cowichan people that their land by the Fraser river would be a future Indian reserve.

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