Or the British East India Company.
(That show was very hard to follow).
Posted on 01/31/2018 2:01:07 PM PST by ameribbean expat
A British Columbia First Nation is claiming title to a private island off Victoria that is currently owned by one of the world's richest men and is valued at more than $54-million.
James Island, the largest privately owned Island in B.C., is currently registered to J.I. Properties Inc., a company owned by telecommunications billionaire Craig McCaw.
He bought it in 1994 for $19-million, but in documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court the Tsawout First Nation says it has never surrendered James Island or the title and rights guaranteed by a 1852 treaty with then Vancouver Island Gov. James Douglas.
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Along with a request for damages, the First Nation also seeks an order for J.I. Properties to transfer James Island to the Tsawout and it calls on Canada and British Columbia to compensate the company for handing over the land.
None of the claims has been considered in court and J.I. Properties and the federal and provincial governments have not yet filed responses.
The B.C. Assessment Authority says James Island is currently assessed at $54,433,000 while Bob Ratliffe, vice-president of Craig McCaw's Eagle River Investments confirmed in 2001 that, along with a main home, there are six guest cabins, a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and a private air strip.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Or the British East India Company.
(That show was very hard to follow).
Even newer data suggest that whoever settled the Americas came long before the migration (supposedly) form Asia, by 10s of thousands of years.
The whole First Nations, Treaty Tribes, “we were created here’ BS is just a way to get free money and more power for the handful of ruling tribal families - they are run much like the mafia.
A title insurance company is on the hook for $54 million.
Where do I sign up for my free land and reparations? Heh.
I’d settle for leaving me alone while I work and provide and work on my land. Keep those fingers out of my wallet society.
Maybe I’m asking too much.
Thanks for the informative post, that’s a nice map.
All You Land Belong Elizabeth Warren
Good advice. Same advice I give my boys.
Decades ago I worked a maintenance job with a skinny bean pole of a guy who married a Cherokee tribe member (NC) and used to brag about living in a free house on the Res.
First time I saw his wife was on pay day when she’d drive over in an old station wagon with a pack of kids from a prior marriage to pick up his paycheck.
Looney Tunes’ caricatures of a fat squaw don’t do justice to the rotundness of this woman. The two of them together reminded me of jack sprat and his wife.
I hope his free house was worth it.
That was worth a laugh..heheh...
Yes, the world was started in Mesopotamia
So one person has to disappear then it’s up for grabs? Heh
I thought the guy from “Taboo” owned that.
Just give them 29 cents worth of beads and call it even
OK; I hear you Prior People. Who has been paying property tax on the property?
Why did they wait so long to make a claim. They certainly had plenty of private notice of prior sale activity involving the island as well as unlimited chances over the years to step and say something. Any court with its salt should ask - Why now? Why never before now?
Taboo was a great show - one of the few things on TV recently I have liked.
I would also make sure that golf course was irrevocably destroyed.
The Indians want the island to make another resort casino without having to invest any money.
No such thing as "bomb proof", just varying degrees of bomb 'resistance'. Makes the entire exercise more fun!
Prior chemical and explosives plant was located upon the island, and had a negative influence on a prior development plan for residential real estate. This is not the first claim against ownership.
Douglas Island, BC lies outside of the recognized treaty boundaries.
http://www.hulquminum.bc.ca/pubs/Douglas_treaties_map.pdf?lbisphpreq=1
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