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B.C.'s Hatley Castle, parcels of downtown Victoria among lands earmarked for transfer to First Nations

Tristin Hopper: The government document warns that the land transfers may ‘take some getting used to,’ as they cover public lands that could end up sealed off from public access

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An internal B.C. document has revealed the extent of the province’s plans to cede more than 120,000 hectares of Crown land to First Nations control, including prominent landmarks around the provincial capital of Victoria.

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The total proposed cessions are more than twice the size of the City of Toronto, or 300 times the size of Vancouver’s Stanley Park. What’s more, they would all become “treaty lands”; a special territorial designation that is not subject to local zoning controls.

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In the case of Victoria, this means that some of the most prime development land in the city could become Indigenous-controlled properties exempted from local bylaws, approvals and building codes.

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