Thursday, April 26, 2007

Full speed ahead for new bridge linking Cambridge & Kitchener

Plans are back on track to build a new bridge over the Grand River by 2010, linking Kitchener to Cambridge. The proposed bridge is moving forward again now that regional officials have consulted with rival aboriginal councils that both claim to speak for the Six Nations people.

Six Nations aboriginals claim they never let go of the bed and banks of the Grand River, after they were granted lands along the river in 1784.

Their claim to the river has not been accepted by senior governments.

Read the full story here

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