
Tag: First Nations
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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, the graves of 1,665+ children have been found on the grounds of five residential schools in Canada. There are 134 more sites across Canada yet…
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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 carver who shows his works in galleries across the country. He met with us recently and shared some details of this creative program at the…
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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 forests. The Mississaugas of the New Credit (comprised of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe) are the stewards of the land. Our immediate neighbours are the Six Nations…