[Proceedings of the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1990-05-18]
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is part of: Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
creator: British Columbia. Supreme Court
issued: 2013
created: 1990-05-18
description: In the Supreme Court of British Columbia, between: Delgamuukw, also known as Albert Tait, suing on his own behalf and on behalf of all the members of the House of Delgamuukw, and others, plaintiffs, and Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Province of British Columbia and the Attorney General of Canada, defendants: proceedings at trial.
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note: 26903 Submissions by Mr. Willms 1 MAY 18, 1990 2 VANCOUVER, B.C. 3 4 THE REGISTRAR: Order in court. In the Supreme Court of British 5 Columbia, this 18th day of May, 1990, Delgamuukw 6 versus Her Majesty the Queen at bar, my lord. 7 THE COURT: Mr. Willms, I omitted to remember — I forgot when 8 you mentioned an evening sitting on Tuesday that I had 9 made a commitment for Tuesday. I didn't make it until 10 I was told that we weren't going to be having the 11 evening sitting. 12 MR. WILLMS: Yes. 13 THE COURT: It isn't essential that I be there. I could hang in 14 here and carry on. It was arranged partly for my 15 convenience. I could sit Tuesday or Wednesday. 16 MR. WILLMS: You mean Wednesday or Thursday. 17 THE COURT: Wednesday, Thursday evening. 18 MR. WILLMS: All right. It's just — I will see how I am at the 19 end of the day, and maybe I can -- we won't need it. 20 But it wouldn't matter which day. We just wanted to 21 pick one day next week. 22 THE COURT: As I say, I can sit either Wednesday or Thursday, or 23 we can hang in here if we have to. 24 MR. WILLMS: I would still like to sit until 5:30 on Tuesday, 25 and then perhaps we could tentatively mark in Thursday 26 night then. 27 THE COURT: I won't make any more commitments next week, unless 28 I get a better offer. 29 MR. WILLMS: My lord, I was on page 25 of my argument in 30 paragraph 42. And I had referred to the diagram from 31 Dr. Bishop and Dr. Ray's report, and I am going to 32 carry on in the middle of the page. And I submit that 33 Dr. Mills and Dr. Daly relied wholly on what they were 34 told by their informants, not only as to present 35 events, but past events as well. As Dr. Mills said 36 and accepted, the Wet'suwet'en perceived themselves as 37 having been in situ in the location where they are 38 found now since the very earliest times that this is 39 basically their homeland. And I submit, my lord, that 40 perception is not evidence that they were actually in 41 situ since the earliest times. …
has type: Trial proceedings
spatial: British Columbia
identifier: KEB529.5.L3 B757
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0018500
language: English
subject: Uukw, Delgam, 1937-
subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada
subject: Oral history
subject: Wet'suwet'en First Nation
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : United Reporting Service Ltd.
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