'My community had to reconsider the proposed site of two key infrastructure plans because of this ice age grass,' Beausoleil First Nation member Johnny Hawke says
MIDLAND - A local First Nations activist has come out against Tiny Township’s plan to build a new municipal building.
Paul Bell, a forest entomologist, says ice age grass has been identified and documented as growing directly adjacent to and perhaps on the proposed construction site located just north of the Huronia Regional Airport. The forked three-awned grass stands about 15 centimetres tall and “is quite unremarkable,” according to a Parks Canada document.
“We never have been properly compensated in the 1795 Penetanguishene Purchase Treaty # 5, The Lakes Simcoe Purchase of 1815, Treaty # 16 and the Lake Simcoe-Nottawasaga Treaty# 18 which encompass 250,000 Acres that Simcoe County unlawfully occupies," Hawke says, noting the Chippewa Tri Countil submitted this "outstanding injustice" to Canada’s Specific Claims Branch in 1990, but Canada refused to accept this matter "at that time.
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