Point Grondine Park is a

First Nations First Nations or first peoples may refer to: * Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area. Indigenous groups *First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including: **First Natio ...

-owned

nature park A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected natural area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscape ...

on the northern shore of

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Sudbury District The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) is ...

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, which occupies the unpopulated historic Point Grondine 3

Indian reserve In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve indienne) is specified by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." Ind ...

. It is a ceded reserve of the

Wiikwemkoong First Nation The Wiikwemkoong First Nation is a First Nations in Canada, First Nation on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario. The Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory (nicknamed Wiky, previously named Wikwemikong) is the First Nations in Canada, First Nation Indi ...

, having been reserved under the terms of the

Robinson Huron Treaty The Robinson Treaties are two treaties signed between the Ojibwa chiefs and The Crown in 1850 in the Province of Canada. The first treaty involved Ojibwa chiefs along the north shore of Lake Superior, and is known as the Robinson Superior Treat ...

in 1850. The former Point Grondine First Nation abandoned the area in the 1940s, moving to the Wiikwemkoong territory on

Manitoulin Island Manitoulin Island is an island in Lake Huron, located within the borders of the Canadian province of Ontario, in the bioregion known as Laurentia. With an area of , it is the largest lake island in the world, large enough that it has over 100 ...

before fully amalgamating with the Wiikwemkoong band in 1968. The Point Grondine area then remained unoccupied and virtually unused by the band until the park was established in 2015. The park is the first phase in a planned Georgian Bay Coast Trail project, which will eventually see a 200-kilometre

nature trail An educational trail (or sometimes educational path), nature trail or nature walk is a specially developed hiking trail or footpath that runs through the countryside, along which there are marked stations or stops next to points of natural, techno ...

extending on indigenous-owned land from Point Grondine to Bayfield Inlet. Although owned and operated separately, the park is managed in collaboration with the neighbouring

Killarney Provincial Park Killarney Provincial Park is a provincial park in central Ontario, Canada. The park contains just one campground at the George Lake entrance as it is primarily a wilderness park. There are few facilities to allow visitors a chance to experience ...

."Killarney Provincial Park to sign MOU with Point Grondine Park at Trails Symposium"
''Anishinabek News'', May 10, 2016.

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Canada Lands Survey System
{{Sudbury District Ojibwe reserves in Ontario Odawa reserves in Ontario Potawatomi reserves in Ontario Parks in Sudbury District