Land Expropriation

• Those who lost properties to make way for Mirabel airport to be honoured with new site

  Members of the CMCEM plan to create a site to commemorate the families' struggles and will include a monument designed by sculptor Armand Vaillancourt.

  Canada

  Aug 21, 2023
  
• Committee OKs some land expropriations for bus rapid transit, sends issue to full council

  The city of London is on the path towards expropriating parts of nearly 80 properties to make room for two major bus rapid transit projects.

  Politics

  May 23, 2023
  
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• Deadline passes, but family of Jackie Vautour remains in Kouchibouguac National Park

  For more than 50 years, the Vautours have claimed they are Acadian-Metis and have the permission of Steven Augustine to remain on the property on New Brunswick's east coast.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2022
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• Deadline looms in Vautour family battle to remain on land in N.B. national park

  Parks Canada is sticking to a March 31 deadline for the family to vacate the property and remove their belongings from the land on the east coast of New Brunswick.

  Canada

  Mar 19, 2022
• Parks Canada tells family fighting expropriation to leave N.B. park by end of March

  Jackie Vautour staged a 50-year battle against the government's expropriation of the land up to his death in February of last year

  Canada

  Jan 25, 2022
• Family of Jackie Vautour to continue fight for land expropriated for national park

  The Vautour family say they are Metis-Acadian and the expropriated land is unceded Mi'kmaq territory that is the subject of an ongoing court challenge.

  Canada

  Apr 16, 2021
• Jackie Vautour, advocate against Kouchibouguac land expropriation, has died

  For decades, Jackie Vautour had been in legal battles with the government, claiming Kouchibouguac is on traditional Indigenous land.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2021