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Background
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LEGAL
AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND
Maritime Peace and Friendship Treaties (1725 to 1776)
The Maritime peace and friendship treaties were made with the Mi’kmaq
and Maliseet people in what was to become Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
The main concerns of the British colonial administration in the period
covered by these treaties were to end hostilities between themselves
and the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet and to establish ongoing peaceful relations.
In exchange for agreeing to keep the peace and to respect British civil
and criminal law, the various nations of Mi'kmaq and Maliseet Indians
were promised by the Crown that they could continue to hunt and fish,
trade with the British, and continue their customary and religious practices.
These treaties did not involve the cession of any land. (Source: Taken
whole from "Historic
Indian Treaties," found at Indian
and Northern Affairs, Canada)
DIRECTLY AFFECTED PARTIES
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
PHOTO GALLERY
OTHER RESOURCES
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