JULY 1:

1796 Detroit Michigan Jay Treaty comes into effect; British withdraw from Detroit, Grand Portage, and Michilimackinac; both parties have free use of Great Lakes. 

1828 Fort Vancouver BC Alexander McLeod attacks lodge of Challum Indians to avenge murder of HBC clerk in January; Chief Trader at Fort Vancouver.

1860 London England Britain transfers control of Indian affairs to Canada.

 1909 Melville Island NWT Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, captain of the government steamship Arctic, places a metal plaque at Parry Rock claiming Canadian sovereignty over the entire Arctic Archipelago; US and Norwegian whalers and mining companies were trying to convince their governments to pursue territorial claims. 'I took possession of Baffin Island for Canada in the presence of several Eskimo,' said Bernier, 'and after firing nineteen shots I instructed an Eskimo to fire the twentieth, telling him that he was now a Canadian.'

1960 Canada Treaty and registered aboriginal Canadians given the right to vote.

1971 Vancouver BC Pierre Trudeau 1919- opens $2.5 million museum for aboriginal artifacts on UBC campus; gift from Canada to honour province's centennial.
 

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