What is the legal basis for claims to the centre line of a river on one side of a reserve?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pasco v. C.N.R., 1985 CanLII 320 (BC SC):
The band’s reserve was originally bounded on one side by the Thompson River, Rotter v. Can. Exploration, 1960 CanLII 429 (SCC), [1961] S.C.R. 15, 33 W.W.R. 37, 26 D.L.R. (2d) 133, holds that a grant of land bounded by a river carries with it title to the centre line of the river.
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