Problem
A. What goal did the British colonial administration seem to be moving toward? In other words, what changes did they hope to bring about in the relationship between Indigenous people and immigrants/settlers?
B. What did the Robinson-Superior Treaty ask of those who signed it?
C. From the perspective of Indigenous peoples in British North America, what were the possible advantages and disadvantages of being treated as individual nations?
D. What were the strategies that Maritime Indigenous people used to "negotiate" with colonial authorities?
E. How did the British dispossess Indigenous people of their land in Quebec? Why did they not conclude Indigenous treaties in the colony?
F. Compare Charles Major's letter to some of the correspondence that Elizabeth Jane Errington writes about in Chapter 8. Is Major trying to create the same sort of connections?
G. Judging from his report, how scientificdo you think Palliser's expedition was?
H. How British were the inhabitants of British North America and associated territories in the late 1850s? What made them so?
I. Do you consider the informal model of miners' justice to be more suitable to areas like the BC gold fields, or were people like Governor Douglas right to push for more suitable to areas like the BC gold fields, or were people like Governor Douglas right to push for more formal institutions?
J. How did the specific British Columbian economic and social context impact the ways in which "colonial promoters" conceptualized the kind of immigrants needed in the colony?