{"id":12283,"date":"2024-02-21T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2024-10-07T00:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:16:25","slug":"ottawa-reaches-59m-settlement-with-matsqui-first-nation-for-1909-land-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/?p=12283","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa reaches $59M settlement with Matsqui First Nation for 1909 land seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff  The Canadian Press Posted February 21, 2024 1:33 pm<br \/>\nThe federal government has reached a $59-million settlement with a First Nation in British Columbia for compensation over allowing a right-of-way to be built through its reserve more than 110 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Matsqui First Nation Chief Alice McKay jointly announced the settlement, compensating for the federal government\u2019s taking of land in 1908 for the Vancouver Power Company right-of-way.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government says construction of the corridor effectively severed access to some reserve lands on the Sahhacum Indian Reserve 1 and Matsqui Main Indian Reserve 2.  <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10308195\/matsqui-first-nation-settlement-ottawa\/\">Read the complete article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 21, 2024 1:33 pm The federal government has reached a $59-million settlement with a First Nation in British Columbia for compensation over allowing a right-of-way to be built through its reserve more than 110 years ago. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Matsqui First Nation Chief Alice McKay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-room"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}