Saulteaux FN fight over Battlefords Provincial Park ends with Supreme Court dismissal

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Saulteaux FN fight over Battlefords Provincial Park ends with Supreme Court dismissal

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an application from the Saulteaux First Nation (SFN) regarding the transfer of land that became the Battlefords Provincial Park. In 1960, SFN surrendered 207 acres of waterfront land on Jackfish Lake in exchange for 4,970 acres of Crown land near Birch and Helene Lakes and $20,000. Decades later, they asked the Specific Claims Tribunal to consider their argument that the deal should not have happened and…