View the full article here ---->Canada 150: Frank Calder founded Nisga'a Tribal Council, affirmed aboriginal title rights

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, The Province counts down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.

In 1913, the son of Arthur Calder (Na-qua-oon, hereditary chief of the Nisga’a Wolf Clan) and his young wife Louisa, was drowned in a canoe accident on the Nass River. Not long after, a wise woman at Kincolith, a village 10 kilometres downstream from Arthur’s house, dreamed that Louisa’s youngest sister, Emily Clark, would soon conceive, that the baby would be a boy, and that he would be the spirit of the chief’s drowned son.