round the time I was discovering Gilbert Malcolm Sproat’s name in documents about the evolution of British Columbia’s Indian Reserves, Sarah Pike was delivering her thesis on Sproat, British Columbia’s Indian Reserve Commissioner between 1876 and 1880, about his “humanitarian civilizing” of Indigenous peoples. I’m grateful to Pike and the Sproat scholars who came before her for their work in discovering more about one of the leading players in the divisions of land in BC. I’ve always imagined him
