Point Grondine Park is a nature park on the northern shore of Lake Huron in Sudbury District, Ontario,"New Wikwemikong Point Grondine Park offers hiking and canoeing trails, camping". Manitoulin Expositor, August 26, 2015. owned by the Wiikwemkoong First Nation. It occupies the unpopulated historic Point Grondine 3 Indian reserve, which was created under the terms of the Robinson Huron Treaty in 1850.
The former Point Grondine First Nation abandoned the area in the 1940s, moving to the Wiikwemkoong territory on Manitoulin Island before fully amalgamating with the Wiikwemkoong band in 1968.John S. Marsh and Bruce W. Hodgins, Changing Parks: The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes. Dundurn Press, 1998. . p. 69. The Point Grondine area then remained unoccupied and virtually unused by the band until the park was established in 2015."First Nation opens new park in northern Ontario". CBC Northern Ontario, August 21, 2015. The park is the first phase in a planned Georgian Bay Coast Trail project, which will eventually see a 200-kilometre nature trail extending on indigenous-owned land from Point Grondine to Bayfield Inlet."Sudbury Accent: Pointing the way to the coast". Sudbury Star, November 8, 2014.
Although owned and operated separately, the park is managed in collaboration with the neighbouring Killarney Provincial Park."Killarney Provincial Park to sign MOU with Point Grondine Park at Trails Symposium". Anishinabek News, May 10, 2016.
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External links Canada Lands Survey System