R v Jim
236, was a decision by the British Columbia Supreme Court on Aboriginal ("Indian") hunting and provincial game laws.In Victoria, British Columbia in 1914 a police magistrate convicted him of possession of a part of a deer in violation of the provincial Game Protection Act.Hunter interpreted the word "managed" to be broad in its application, and that it should include governing hunting and fishing on reserves (Indian lands).Hunter also noted that the federal government did regulate Aboriginal hunting in other provinces, suggesting it would have jurisdiction in British Columbia as well.As a constitutional scholar Peter Hogg wrote, "Hunting on a reserve is such a significant element of traditional Indian ways that it should probably be free of provincial regulation."