True reconciliation’: City of Quesnel to restore ownership of city park to Lhtako Dene First Nation – CBC

Plans to build Indigenous cultural centre based on traditional pit houses also underway

Feb 21, 2019

The City of Quesnel is restoring ownership of a public park to the Lhtako Dene First Nation in a step toward what Mayor Bob Simpson calls “true reconciliation” in the central B.C. community.

Ceal Tingley Memorial Park is located at a site near the confluence of the Fraser and Quesnel rivers in the city’s downtown, and is 2,873 square metres (about two-thirds of an acre) in size.

The city and First Nation have partnered to not only restore ownership of this land on which the park now sits, but to also build an Indigenous cultural centre and performance space there.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quesnel-reconciliation-lhtako-dene-park-1.5027336