Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day.
The Parkbus office is situated on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
You can read the Truth and Reconciliation Report Here
Parkbus operates our trips on indigenous lands across the country. We invite all of our Parkbus community to think about how they can engage in reconciliation through reflection and education, such as reading the TRC report, and thank the indigenous communities that have been taking care of the land since time immemorial.
You can also view the ReconciliACTION reports here
Check out the Links below to learn who the lands the trips you have taken belong to.
British Columbia
Visit this interactive map to see what lands Joffre Lakes, Garibaldi and Golden Ears Provincial Parks lay on.
Joffre Lakes is located in the Lil’wat Nation
Garibaldi is located in the Squamish Nation
Golden Ears is located in the Katzie and Kwantlen Nations
Alberta
Elk Island National Park
The land in and around Elk Island National Park is located within the Treaty 6 Territory, the ancestral and traditional territories of the Niitsítpiis-stahkoii ᖹᐟᒧᐧᐨᑯᐧ ᓴᐦᖾᐟ (Blackfoot / Niitsítapi ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ), ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ ᐊᐢᑭᕀ Nêhiyaw-Askiy (Plains Cree), Michif Piyii (Métis), Cree people.
Visit this interactive map to learn more about the lands you live on everyday.
Ontario
Bruce Peninsula National Park and Tobermory
Belongs to the Territory of the Anishinabek Nation: The People of the Three Fires known as Ojibway, Odawa, and Pottawatomie Nations. And further, the Chippewas of Saugeen, and the Chippewas of Nawash, known collectively as the Saugeen Ojibway Nation.
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Algonquin Provincial Park
Is located on the traditional lands of the diverse Algonquin nations.
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Rouge National Urban Park
Belongs to the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, (Haudenosaunee), Wendake-Nionwentsïo, in the Mississauga Territory.
Source - Native-Land map.
Elora
(Centre Wellington)
The Township of Centre Wellington has been home to people for more than 13,000 years. In particular, the land on which the Township is located was negotiated as part of Treaty 3 (1784) and Treaty 19 (1818), signed by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Additionally, most of the Township is within lands originally set aside for the people of the Six Nations of the Grand River under the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784. The Township of Centre Wellington is within the traditional lands of the Attawandaron (or Neutral Nation), the Huron-Wendat Nation, and the Grand River Métis Council.
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Albion Hills and Glen Haffy
Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Hosted on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Wendat. This land remains home to many First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples from across Turtle Island.
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Rattlesnake Point and Crawford Lake
The Treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation as well as the Traditional Territory of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat and Anishinabek.
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