This paper shows how speculative activity over the forest can be a form of timber colonialism. It focuses on the Labrador forest at the center of the Labrador/Quebec boundary dispute. Since the 1880s, the imagined potential for forestry in Labrador generated speculative activity and competing colonial ownership claims. In 1927, after decades of ambiguity and growing conflict between the Canadian province of Quebec and the Dominion of Newfoundland, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in England defined the Labrador boundary by the height of land, giving jurisdiction over most of the interior of the Quebec/Labrador Peninsula to Newfoundland. Throughout this colonial quarrel, the Innu people, the Indigenous inhabitants of the disputed area, were ignored. The ontological creation of the forest of Labrador as a natural resource and the establishment of the boundary resulted in the colonial encroaching of the Innu territory, Nitassinan. This process continues to marginalize the Innu people's practices in, relationships with, and conceptualizations of their territory, contributing to the ongoing colonial dispossession of their lands, even when the Innu nominally participated in a co-management process of the forest in Central Labrador that was at the heart of the boundary dispute.
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