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This chapter concludes by summarizing how district-inspection modified the conduct of observation by grounding documentation and records into a distinct set of spatial-temporal coordinates. The chapter goes on to discuss the long reach of the district in structuring other nineteenth-century projects of colonial rule. Particular attention is paid to how the modern reservation system in Canada drew heavily from the district report and the logic of using the district to confine indigenous populations to specific locations and limit their mobility. It outlines lines of inquiry that could be pursued through subsequent research projects.
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Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada, 370.
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See Legg, “Governmentality, Congestion and Calculation in Colonial Delhi.”
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In British Columbia, for instance, the measure was ten acres, see Kenneth Brealey, “Travels from Point Ellice: Peter O’Reilly and the Indian Reserve System in British Columbia,” BC Studies, no. 115/166 (1997, Autumn/Winter): 190.
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Richard Mackie, “The Colonization of Vancouver Island,” BC Studies, no. 96 (1992, Winter): 8.
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See Harris, “Chapter 9, Native Space,” in Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia, 415.
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Brealey, “Travels from Point Ellice,” 190.
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F.L. Barron, “The Indian Pass System in the Canadian West (1882–1935),” Prairie Forum, vol. 13, no. 1 (1988, Spring): 39.
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For instance, in his acknowledgements in his work on The Fur Trade in Canada, Innis thanks both the company for supporting his tour of the “Mackenzie River District,” and T.W. Harris, the Indian Agent assigned to the district working out of Fort Simpson. See Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada, i.
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See 64 Victoria Sessional Paper No. 27 A. 1901, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1900, Submitted by Clifford Sifton (Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, for the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty).
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A. Irvine, Northwest Mounted Police Force Commissioners Report (Ottawa: Queen’s Press, 1880), 11.
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A. Irvine, Northwest Mounted Police Force Commissioners Report (Ottawa: Queen’s Press, 1880), 7.
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A. Irvine, Northwest Mounted Police Force Commissioners Report (Ottawa: Queen’s Press, 1880), 11.
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Henry, A.J. (2020). Conclusion: District Space. In: Districts, Documentation, and Population in Rupert’s Land (1740–1840). Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32730-9_7
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