First Nations
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“Yours in Native Spirit”
Because of prevailing social attitudes and conditions which still persist today in Canada, a disproportionate number of the incarcerated men at the Ontario Reformatory, more recently called the Guelph Correctional Centre (GCC), were Indigenous.
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Summer greetings Yorklands friends!
Many of you are asking about the current status of the national Urban Park Guelph as you see lawn signs popping up around our city.
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Yorklands Land Acknowledgement Statement
Yorklands is situated on the Treaty and traditional lands of the Mississauga’s of the Credit First Nation who are part of the Anishinabek peoples, and the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee as well as the Attiwonderonk (Neutral) peoples.
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National Urban Park
Yorklands Green Hub joined a coalition of local organizations in early 2023 to advocate for a new National Urban Park at the Yorklands site under Parks Canada.
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Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation endorse Urban Park Guelph
Urban Park Guelph’s endorsement from the Mississauga’s of the Credit First Nation.
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Indigenous Support Gathering – Video
On July 23, we held a gathering to stand in solidarity with Indigenous nations as they grieve the children killed by the residential school system. Over the past several months, […]
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Prison Arts at the Ontario Reformatory in the last decades of 1900
Arend Nieuwland, an accomplished professional artist was the art director of the prison arts program for the final 26 years at the Guelph Correctional Centre. He is currently a soapstone […]
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Territorial Acknowledgment
We acknowledge this land as part of the traditional territory of the First Nations. The Attawandaron (called Neutrals by the Jesuits) lived on this land with its two rivers and […]