The enumeration of First Nations and Métis peoples in Canada must be considered differently from other ethnic minorities because of their colonial relationship with the state. Over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Aboriginal peoples in Canada became increasingly subject to a separate regulatory body, the Department of Indian Affairs, and legislation such as the Indian Act, both of which affected the information recorded by the census. As the census extended to Canada’s north and west, Indian Affairs officials often acted as census enumerators, and, consequently, its creation of the legal categories of Métis and status Indian blurred the ethnic definitions laid out by the census instructions. Some Aboriginal peoples viewed the c...
Under the Constitutional Act of 1982, Canada’s Aboriginal people fall into three categories: Métis, ...
Special enumeration procedures for Indigenous Australians were introduced in the 1971 Census, and ha...
legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and to assimilate the Indian people in all re...
Toward the end of the 20th century, the number of persons reporting Aboriginal ancestry in the Canad...
Abstract:The problem of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is one of the largest so...
Based on the work by three academic data professionals who created the Data on Racialized Population...
Celebrating its centenary in 2022, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (JCHA) has bee...
Objective: To gather informal evidence on the Canadian community’s knowledge of the history and matt...
Finding data on race, racialized populations, and anti-racism in Canada can be a complex process whe...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
The article examines the policy of Canadian authorities toward the indigenous population (Indian pol...
In 1884 Mary E. Inderwick wrote to her Ontario family from the ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta, wh...
This paper investigates the history of colonialism within Canadian society by analyzing the relation...
The identities of mixed Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal descendents in British Columbia is as varied a...
By the mid-nineteenth century, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) officers were retiring in greater n...
Under the Constitutional Act of 1982, Canada’s Aboriginal people fall into three categories: Métis, ...
Special enumeration procedures for Indigenous Australians were introduced in the 1971 Census, and ha...
legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and to assimilate the Indian people in all re...
Toward the end of the 20th century, the number of persons reporting Aboriginal ancestry in the Canad...
Abstract:The problem of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is one of the largest so...
Based on the work by three academic data professionals who created the Data on Racialized Population...
Celebrating its centenary in 2022, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (JCHA) has bee...
Objective: To gather informal evidence on the Canadian community’s knowledge of the history and matt...
Finding data on race, racialized populations, and anti-racism in Canada can be a complex process whe...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
The article examines the policy of Canadian authorities toward the indigenous population (Indian pol...
In 1884 Mary E. Inderwick wrote to her Ontario family from the ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta, wh...
This paper investigates the history of colonialism within Canadian society by analyzing the relation...
The identities of mixed Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal descendents in British Columbia is as varied a...
By the mid-nineteenth century, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) officers were retiring in greater n...
Under the Constitutional Act of 1982, Canada’s Aboriginal people fall into three categories: Métis, ...
Special enumeration procedures for Indigenous Australians were introduced in the 1971 Census, and ha...
legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and to assimilate the Indian people in all re...