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Mi’kmaq First Nations and Parks Canada are taking another step towards shaping the future of P.E.I.’s National Parks together. They are creating co-management boards. Both call it a milestone in terms of their relationship — and reconciliation itself. CBC’s Sheehan Desjardins has the story.
L’nuey and Parks Canada are looking for board members to help co-manage P.E.I.’s protected lands and historic sites, taking the next step on an agreement they have spent years crafting.
“The agreements were signed and negotiated over many years. I believe the negotiations started even way back in the early 2000s,” said Geraldine Arsenault, the field unit superintendant for Parks Canada on Prince Edward Island.
“These agreements for both the new national park reserve and for the Toquktmekl agreement, these agreements were both signed at different moments in 2024.”
The new boards will consist of five members — two appointed by the Mi’kmaq Nation Government of …
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