First Nation Administrative Boundary

Description

Aboriginal Consultation – Duty to Consult

In developing guidelines and establishing partnership, the Government of Canada engages with Indigenous people for many reasons, including the duty to consult and accommodate. The duty arises most often when actions or decisions that may affect an Aboriginal person’s Aboriginal or Treaty rights on natural resource extraction such as mining, forestry, oil and gas.

The First Nation Administrative Boundary overlay consists of Indian Reserves, Historic Treaties, Land Claims, Traditional Territories, Settlements, First Nation Bands, Friendship Centres and Tribal Councils.

The Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries includes legislative boundaries of Indian Reserves, Land Claim Settlement Lands and Indian Lands.

The Pre-1975 Treaties (Historic Treaties) dataset contains the geographic boundaries as well as basic attributes data of all signed agreements that were negotiated between 1725 and 1929.

The Post-1975 Treaties (Modern Treaties) dataset contains the geographic boundaries as well as basic attributes data of all signed agreements that were negotiated after 1975.

BC Land Claim contains the spatial representation (polygon) of the current extent of an area of land that is governed and owned by the First Nation in fee simple pursuant to the provisions of the applicable treaty.

Tribal Council is a grouping of First Nations with common interests who voluntarily joined together to provide services to member First Nations.

Friendship Centres are non-profit community organizations that provide services to urban Inuit, Métis, and First Nations (Status and Non-Status) people.

Originator

1. Canada Open Data

2. Government of British Columbia

3. TC Smart Maps

Use Cases

Source(s)

Remarks

1. Most of these are listed on Canada Open Data

2. The most appropriate dataset to use for EGIS would be from WMS or REST web services as it does not require periodic updates. However, currency of the data depends on how responsive the vendor is when new update is available.

3. PNR First Nation Traditional Territories were digitized manually in Google Earth from sketch of Historical Archive provided by Aboriginal Consultation Unit. No official digital dataset is available.

4. EGIS Data Folder: \\ncras382\Application Source Files\EGIS\Smartmap Files\

Process for EGIS integration

REST or WMS Services:

1. ESRI REST and WMS web services will be the preferred choice as it does not require continuous update and integrates directly into EGIS.

Display Optimization:

1. Indian Reserve polygon centroids are displayed at small. With scale transition, original IR polygons are displayed at larger scale, thus improve display performance.

TC Smart Maps:

1. Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.

2. Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.

3. TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\FN_Admin_Boundary\FirstNationAdminBoundary.kml (Complete set)

4. TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\FN_Admin_Boundary\LandClaim\PNR_LandClaims.kmz (PNR First Nation Traditional Territories)

Customization:

1. Schema transformation: As required

2. Denormalization: Not required

3. Value coding: Not required

4. Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability

5. Attribute removal: It is highly recommended as some fields are unnecessary, this will also reduce file size and improve performance

6. Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization is recommended to improve visualization
   -Symbolize First Nation Band, Friendship Centre and Tribal Council with different symbols.

7. Format translation: Not required

8. Language translation: French version available for most dataset

9. Update frequency: As identified