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Léon Lebrun (left) of Trails BC and local cycling advocates Ian and Colleen MacDonald of Belcarra ride on the newly reopened Sheep Paddocks Trail in Colony Farm Regional Park in Coquitlam. It’s one of a number of newer cycling paths in the Tri-Cities that make twowheeled, human-powered transportation — along with family recreation — a safe alternative for more people. For more on this, see story, page 21. mario bartel/tHe tri-CitY NeWS
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Will shared electric scooters be zooming along Tri-City streets & sidewalks soon? See story, page 21
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Tsleil-Waututh take on Belcarra role First Nation, Metro Van cultural planning & cooperation deal Stefan Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com
Long before White Pine Beach was a summer hot spot and the surrounding forested trails a hiker’s dream, Belcarra Regional Park in Port Moody was the site of the largest winter village of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Now, in what’s being de-
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scribed as a historic agreement between the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Metro Vancouver, the two governments are looking to reassert the First Nation’s ancestral footprint on the territory. And for the First Nation that’s most closely associated
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with the North Shore, it’s a chance to highlight its roots on this side of Burrard Inlet. “Tsleil-Waututh means ‘people of the inlet.’ It doesn’t mean the North Shore. It means ‘of the inlet,’” Tsleil-Waututh member Ernie George told The Tri-City News, pointing to
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the nation’s ancestral footprint in the Tri-Cities. “It’s not a big distance. All of our village sites always interacted. The inlet was our highway. “You’re protected in that area. You’re out of the weather,” George said of the land that comprises Belcarra Regional
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Park. “Tsleil-Waututh people would stay there through the winter and once spring started coming, the people would disperse and go do what it is Tsleil-Waututh did: gather and be stewards of the land.” see
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