In a highly anticipated move, the Canadian Government announced a free pass to access Canadian national parks and national historic sites for up to three generations of expropriated people. This will allow expropriated people, their children, and their grandchildren access to areas dear to them and their culture.
Steven Blaney, Member of Parliament for Lévis-Bellechasse said “I am particularly proud to be the messenger for my government today, because I am convinced that this gesture of reconciliation will allow hundreds of families to return to the sites that they helped to build, where they grew up, where an important part of their history took place.”
Details on exactly how the passes will be distributed have yet to be worked out, but Canada expects that they will be implemented by spring 2011.
More information available here.
I would appreciate a pass (GRATIS) from Parks Canada to use this summer.