Act Providing for the Organisation of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada and for the Management of Indian and Ordnance Lands

The "Act Providing for the Organisation of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada and for the Management of Indian and Ordnance Lands" was enacted in Canada in 1868. This act, passed shortly after the British North America Act united several colonies into the Dominion of Canada, established the framework for the federal government's management of specific lands. It defined how the new dominion government would interact with Indigenous nations and manage ordnance lands. This legislation was a precursor to later acts, such as the Indian Act of 1876, and played a role in the complex relationship between the Canadian government and Indigenous peoples during a period of significant territorial expansion.12