June 2, 2022 Vol. 22, No. 22
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Suspected Vandalism To Commemorative Plaque by Jeff Green en years ago, the Lanark County Neighbours for Truth & Reconciliation formed as a community group to promote education about the history of unceded Algonquin territory. The eclectic group from many different walks of life, want to bring Truth & Reconciliation alive on a local level and lend support to the struggles of Indigenous communities in our midst. One of their projects is creating plaques to place in public spaces with stories of the history of Indigenous people is this area. One such plaque on Lanark Road 36 near Crow Lake Road at the north end of Bob’s Lake, adjacent to the Bolingbroke dam, tells a disheartening story about the Algonquins of Bedford, Oso and South Sherbrook. Under Chief Shawinipinessi the group sought to secure reservation land in Bedford after being pushed out of their ancestral forest home under the pressure of the burgeoning logging trade. With the help of Tay Valley Township, using a piece of white stone that was donated by OMYA, the plaque was placed in the summer of 2021. As the snows of last winter receded, neighbours noticed that the boulder holding the plaque had been pushed over, possibly due to an inadvertent exchange with a snow-plough. However, a few weeks later the stone was found to be further pushed over with the risk of damaging the plaque face itself. It is unlikely that the second incident was an accident. Once again, Tay Valley Township came forward and carefully repositioned plaque and stone. “We hope the plaque remains clearly visible and that the story continues to feed the knowledge of visitors and
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neighbours in our community,” said Jean Ogilvie, a supporter of the Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation. The Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Samuel P. Jarvis, wrote the following in early 1844: “The tract containing somewhere about 2000 acres and situate principally in the Townships of Oso and Bedford being bounded on all sides by chains of small lakes is quite secluded and is thereby rendered peculiarly adapted for an Indian settlement, although the quality of the soil is not particularly good … I therefore respectfully recommend that the tract asked for be set apart for them and their posterity on the same terms and conditions that the Reservations in other parts of the Province have been made for the several Resident Tribes and that the Surveyor General be directed to cause a survey of the same to be made for that purpose.” Soon after, on March 21, 1844, the reserve was established by an order in Council from the government of the Province of Canada. For years after that, there were incursions on the designated lands by loggers and others, and Peter Shawinipinessi petitioned the government repeatedly to put an end to the incursions. In 1861, the new Superintendent of Indian Affairs W.P Bartlett, officially denied the existence of the 1844 order in Council, putting an end to the Bedford reserve. Records show that Peter Shawinipinessi ended up moving to Golden Lake to the reserve to live in what is now called Pikwakanagan, the only Algonquin reserve in Ontario. (Information provided by the Lanark County Neighbours For Truth and Reconciliation website, under Local Stories – The petitions of Chief Shawinipinessi ■
First Draft of New South Frontenac Official Plan
South Frontenac’s Council were introduced to the first draft of their new Official Plan (OP) on May 24. Township planning staff began the process with public consultations in mid-2019; the process was put on pause during the height of Covid, and continued in March ’21, when Dillon Consulting was engaged. Chief presenters were Claire Dodds, Director of Development Services, and Rory Baksh of Dillon Consulting. They describe the 218-page OP draft as “a dense document which takes time to read and digest.” The intent of this meeting was to introduce the document and mapping and outline major themes, and areas of change from the current Official Plan. Council will then have three weeks to review the document and then will meet with the Official Plan Review Team at the June 14, 2022 Committee of the Whole meeting to ask questions and provide feedback on the draft Official Plan. The intent is to follow that with another round of public engagement and review by external agencies such as the Conservation Authorities, adjacent municipalities, Provincial Ministries, etc. “It is anticipated … the current draft will continue to evolve as further input is incorporated into the document.” The current OP was adopted in 2000, and since then there have been numerous changes and updates in the Provincial Planning Act, and the County’s official plan
which need to be addressed in this Township document. The below list outlines major policy additions or changes in the new draft Official Plan: • Vision, Goals and Guiding Principals • Building Relationships with Indigenous Communities • Growth Allocation (Set targets for growth in settlement areas and rural areas) • Employment lands policies and designation of land in settlement areas • Affordable Housing ( Additional Dwelling Units / Tiny Houses / Live/Work Units / Garden Suites); • Waterfront Development (New policies for changes to non-complying and nonconforming waterfront development) • Sustainability, Climate Change and Renewable Energy policies • Agriculture (Agricultural systems definition applied to designate prime agricultural land/Agricultural uses, value-added and on-farm diversified uses supported/ Consents in agricultural designation limited to what is permitted by the Provincial Policy Statement.) • Rural (Strengthened policies to support rural tourism and commercial uses/Rural residential consent policies proposed to be largely the same as the 2003 Official Plan (3 rural residential lots + retained from a parcel that existed on September 5, 2000) and allow some opportunity for
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infill rural lot creation. • Settlement Areas (Three classifications of settlement areas, primary, secondary and tertiary for the purpose of growth allocation and preferred servicing approaches. • Environmental Protection (Recognition of Frontenac Arch Biosphere & ecological importance of the area ) • Cultural Heritage (Policies relating to undertaking archaeological assessments/ Recognition of cultural heritage, heritage designation and need to consider development adjacent to designated heritage
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properties.) • Roads (Classification of Road System/ Road widening widths based on classification of road/Private Lane policies (current wording based on County Private Lane study) • Communal Servicing (Publicly owned communal servicing is preferred form of servicing – South Frontenac will undertake a servicing strategy to consider how to implement communal servicing in settlement areas.)
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