Global News has learned the incident took place Feb. 6, 2020 at 2 p.m., while RCMP were conducting patrols near Houston, B.C. during the protests against the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

The move comes as Via Rail resumes normal service in Eastern Canada and its main cross-country line.

All routes across Canada affected by the Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests could be up and running again by next Friday, the company says.

Grand Chief Joseph Norton says the measure would allow the RCMP to withdraw from the area as negotiations to end the pipeline dispute continues.

A group of protesters have set up on either side of the tracks on the Gardiners Road rail overpass in Kingston.

Ontario Provincial Police said the fires, at a second protest encampment in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, brought morning freight train traffic to a halt.

A spokesperson said police finished relocating the base of its operations from the Community Industry Safety Office to its detachment in nearby Houston, B.C., mid-day Friday.

Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs oppose the Coastal GasLink project that would carry natural gas to the B.C. coast, though others in the community support the pipeline.

Chief Na'Moks says a meeting set for Monday has been delayed after the prime minister said it's up to Indigenous leaders and police to take down the rail blockades.

The prime minister said every effort at dialogue so far has not yielded any results.