Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Members of the legal profession have made useful contributions to our knowledge of the history of western Canada. In Manitoba the writings of Roy St. George Stubbs and Dale Gibson come to mind. To be added to that list is Kirk N. Lambrecht, a practicing attorney from Edmonton, Alberta, who has made an important contribution to the literature on the administration and development of Dominion Lands in the western provinces and northern territories of Canada. After the vast areas of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories were transferred from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada on 15 July 1870, the responsibility for the administration of all matters relating to lands in what amounts to virtually one quarter of the entire land area of North America lay with the Canadian federal government in Ottawa. This situation lasted until 1930 when responsibility for these lands passed from the federal government to the provinces.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:3 (Summer 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.