It’s almost comical, like something out of a movie, the way a golf course in a posh Vancouver neighbourhood has become a flashpoint in First Nations’ treaty efforts.
The province is in secretive talks about turning the University Golf Club over to the Musqueam band, which has outstanding claims over a lot of expensive Lower Mainland real estate.
The neighbours and golfers, in an area where $1 million gets you a starter home, are shocked and outraged.
Really outraged. One observed that some golfers so loved the course they had their ashes scattered over the fairways. If the Musqueam developed the land, it would be like desecrating a burial site, he said, adding that First Nations don’t like it when someone digs up the bones of their ancestors to clear the way for condos or a new road.
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