Destroying history for a highway?
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PAOV — Pierpoint Park is a nature reserve north of Guelph, Ontario that is home to an environmentally sensitive part of the Grand River. It is also a nationally significant and protected Black heritage site. In the 1820s, Richard Pierpoint, a freed man who had been abducted from West Africa and enslaved as a teenager, settled on the land. He was an early leader in the Niagara Region’s Black community, and was an important influence in the area’s defence during the War of 1812. Local residents are raising the alarm about a proposed truck bypass that threatens the park. You can help protect this historically and environmentally significant site by signing the petition now.
Pierpoint Nature Reserve - A... Local Gem Worth Protecting.
2,594 have signed Peter van Vloten’s petition. Let’s get to 5,000!
Sign now with a clickThe Centre Wellington Transportation Master Plan (TMP) proposes a truck bypass route which includes construction of a new bridge across the Grand River at County Road 29 and road expansion on or near Anderson St. and north on the 1st Line in Fergus ON. This route would: a. destroy an environmentally sensitive part of the Grand River; b. remove Pierpoint Park, a nationally significant and protected Black Heritage site; c. eliminate Pierpoint Fly Fishing Nature Reserve, a prime, international fly fishing tourism destination; d. terminate educational and recreational use of the Park by local residents and children from John Black School; and e. destroy the character of an existing prime residential neighbourhood in Fergus. For these reasons this route option is not feasible and is not able to be implemented.
The undersigned concerned residents therefore request that this proposed truck route option be removed from the TMP now so that Centre Wellington planners and Council can focus on feasible bypass route alternatives going forward.
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