Miigwetch (Thank You!) for Crane Gathering Space on Credit Valley Trail – Justsayin Caledon

Photo above: Credit Valley Conservation and partners take part in a ceremonial cloth cutting during the opening ceremony at the Crane Gathering Space. From left to right: Scott Cafarella, Manager, Capital Projects, CVC; Diem Marchand-Lafortune, Cree Treaty Six; Elder Carolyn King, MCFN; Quentin Hanchard, CAO CVC; Dale Kewageshig, Saugeen First Nation; Dr. Jonathan Ferrier, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation; Elder Gary Sault, MCFN. (Photo Credit: Dan O’Reilly)

Traditional songs, the lighting of a sacred fire, smudging, and a symbolic cloth cutting were highlights of a special June 7th ceremony at Island Lake Conservation Area in Orangeville.

The joint Credit Valley Conservation-Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN) ceremony acknowledged the original Indigenous presence in the Credit River watershed. That was achieved with the official opening of the newly constructed Crane Gathering Space at the northern terminus of the still-under-development Credit Valley Trail (CVT).

It is the first of, what will be seven, Anishinaabe dodem (clan) sites whose purpose is bring is to bring Indigenous culture and experiences to life along the trail.

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