Point Grondine Park is a First Nations-owned nature park on the northern shore of Lake Huron in Sudbury District, Ontario,[2] which occupies the unpopulated historic Point Grondine 3 Indian reserve. It is a ceded reserve of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, having been reserved under the terms of the Robinson Huron Treaty in 1850.
Point Grondine 3 | |
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Point Grondine Indian Reserve No. 3 | |
Coordinates: 46°01′N 81°09′W / 46.017°N 81.150°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Ontario |
District | Sudbury |
First Nation | Wiikwemkoong |
Area | |
• Land | 138.97 km2 (53.66 sq mi) |
The former Point Grondine First Nation abandoned the area in the 1940s, moving to the Wiikwemkoong territory on Manitoulin Island before fully amalgamating with the Wiikwemkoong band in 1968.[3] The Point Grondine area then remained unoccupied and virtually unused by the band until the park was established in 2015.[4] The park is the first phase in a planned Georgian Bay Coast Trail project, which will eventually see a 200-kilometre nature trail extending on indigenous-owned land from Point Grondine to Bayfield Inlet.[5]
Although owned and operated separately, the park is managed in collaboration with the neighbouring Killarney Provincial Park.[6]