Allan McEachern [SEP] occupation
Allan McEachern
Allan McEachern, BA, LL.B, LL.D ("Honoris Causa") (May 20, 1926 – January 10, 2008) was a Canadian lawyer, a judge, and a Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.
Personal.
McEachern's first wife, Gloria, died in 1997 after 44 years of marriage. Two years later, he married Appeal Court Justice Mary Newbury.
Education.
McEachern graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949, followed by
judgement from Chief Justice Allan McEachern was released on March 8, 1991. He dismissed the plaintiffs' claims to Aboriginal title, jurisdiction (self-government), and Aboriginal rights in the territories. Despite finding that Aboriginal rights of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en had been extinguished, Chief Justice McEachern found that the Crown had made promises beginning in 1859 and 1860 that gave rise to a fiduciary duty: "to permit aboriginal people, but subject to the general law of the province, to use any unoccupied or vacant Crown land for