Shay Mitchell. Shay Mitchell was born Shannon Mitchell in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a Filipino mother and a father of Irish and Scottish descent. Even as a young child, she was interested in the performing arts, declaring to her parents that she would pursue such a career.
T he first Navigation Act was passed by the Rump Parliament in October 1651 in the wake of an unsuccessful diplomatic attempt by Oliver St John and Walter Strickland to negotiate an alliance between the English Commonwealth and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. he first Navigation Act was passed by the Rump Parliament in October 1651 in the wake of an unsuccessful diplomatic attempt by Oliver St John and Walter Strickland to negotiate an alliance between the English Commonwealth and the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
The Indian Act was drafted in 1876 as a legislative tool to implement the Dominion's jurisdiction over Indians and Lands reserved for Indians 7 under Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act).18 Most of this increase was because of amendments to the Indian Act which allow previously enfranchised individuals to regain Indian status and many of their descendants to register for the first time. Clearly the special status of First Nations people has persisted despite the restrictions in the act.