Indigenous group clears cottagers’ barricades at Ipperwash Beach – London Free Press

Aug 27, 2024

Tensions are running high on a stretch of Ipperwash Beach after a group from a nearby First Nation removed barricades and plantings put in by cottagers.

Cottagers said dozens of people who described themselves as Anishinaabe members of the nearby Kettle and Stony Point First Nation used chainsaws and heavy machinery on Saturday to clear wooden barricades and dune-grass plantings along a 1.7-kilometre stretch of beach between West Ipperwash and Centre Side roads.

“It was basically, I think, telling the property owners that you’re not allowed to put logs and berms and anything like that,” one cottager said.

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