Razack (20020) defines the historical legacy of the “white settler society” that dominated legal and historical land use rights in relation to indigenous peoples and people of color. In addition to this problem, Razack (2002) also defines the problem of "mapping" which allowed an essentially racist Canadian government to marginalize or remove people of color from land ownership and their placement within the hegemonic white community. . (2002) propose a method of “devography” in which the racism underlying Canadian legal policies can be exposed and reconstructed to address the problem of racism in land use in Canada. It is the important aspects of racial identity and spatial organization that define conflicts. of racism in Canadian law and in the “departure” of “white settler society” that Razack (2002) identifies throughout the period.