Presented at Sidewalk Toronto 2018 : Canadian Institute of Planners

1. Sidewalk TorontoSidewalk Toronto
Incite Planning: 23 June 2018Incite Planning: 23 June 2018
Indigenous PerspectivesIndigenous Perspectives
on Planningon Planning

2. Canadian Institute of Planners
 ICPC currently drafting an Indigenous Planning
Policy
 2019 is the centenary year
 the 2019 call for conference sessions &
sponsorship packages in the Fall
 CIP can partner on webinars
– Recently one on engagement with City of Winnipeg
– 300+ participants
– Wednesday the 27th
June 2018 on Duty to Consult

4. This is Bob, he lives on my favourite tree;

5. does this tree belong to her, does this tree belong to me?

6. Toronto = Mnjikaning

7. Mnjikaning = Fish Fence

8. From the Fish Fence
at the Narrows…
 “Mnjikaning”
– Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway)
– channel between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching
– used for 5000 years, until WW II
 “Ouentaronk”
– Wendat (Huron)
– pre-date Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, 2560 BC
– Observed by Champlain, 1615
 “Tkaronto”
– Haudenosaunee ( Mohawk)

9. … to the Humber Portage
 “Lac de Taronto”
– French court official Abbé Claude Bernou, 1680
– Lake Simcoe
 “Passage de Taronto”
– canoe route, 1686
– Rivière Taronto
– Humber River
 “Toronto”
– Italian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli, 1695
– Fort Toronto, 1720s
– Toronto Carrying-Place Trail

10. “where there are trees
standing in the water”

11. Who’s territory is Toronto?
 SW First Nations:
– Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation
– Six Nations of the Grand River
 Williams Treaty:
– Alderville First Nation
– Beausoleil First Nation
– Chippewas of Georgina Island
– Chippewas of Rama
– Curve Lake First Nation
– Hiawatha First Nation
– Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation
 Historical Nations:
– Huron-Wendat Nation
– Métis Nation of Ontario
 Urban Aboriginal Populations:
– First Nations, Inuit, & Métis members
– Native Canadian Centre of Toronto

12. 
1. Friendship
2. Sharing the Land
3. Respect for Difference
4. Acceptance of Similarity
5. Dignity of Uniqueness
6. Land as Kin
7. Patience
Principles

13. Respect for Difference Acceptance of Similarity

14. Dignity of Uniqueness Land as Kin

15. M o o s e D e e r P o in t F ir s t N a t io n - 2 5 0 h a
E s ta b lis h e d a s a n I n d ia n R e s e r v e in 1 9 1 7
M O O S E D E E R P O I N T
F I R S T N A T I O N - 2 0 0 2
G e o r g i a n
B a y
T w e l v e M i l e B a y
1 2 M ile
B a y R d
M D P
Is a a c B a y
M D P
G o r d o n B a y
M D P
K in g B a y
Example: Matawbik

16. O 'D o n n e ll P o in t N a t u r e R e s e r v e
E s ta b lis h e d in 1 9 8 5
M o o s e D e e r P o in t F ir s t N a t io n - 2 5 0 h a
E s ta b lis h e d a s a n I n d ia n R e s e r v e in 1 9 1 7
M O O S E D E E R P O I N T
F I R S T N A T I O N - 2 0 0 2
G e o r g i a n
B a y
T w e l v e M i l e B a y
1 2 M ile
B a y R d
M D P
Is a a c B a y
M D P
G o r d o n B a y
M D P
K in g B a y

17. O 'D o n n e ll P o in t N a t u r e R e s e r v e
E s ta b lis h e d in 1 9 8 5
M o o s e D e e r P o in t F ir s t N a t io n - 2 5 0 h a
E s ta b lis h e d a s a n I n d ia n R e s e r v e in 1 9 1 7
C u r r e n t A T R - 1 6 0 h a
P u r c h a s e d in 1 9 9 0 , in A T R p r o c e s s f o r p a s t 1 0 y e a r s
M O O S E D E E R P O I N T
F I R S T N A T I O N - 2 0 0 2
G e o r g i a n
B a y
T w e l v e M i l e B a y
1 2 M ile
B a y R d
M D P
Is a a c B a y
M D P
G o r d o n B a y
M D P
K in g B a y

18. O 'D o n n e ll P o in t N a t u r e R e s e r v e
E s ta b lis h e d in 1 9 8 5
M o o s e D e e r P o in t F ir s t N a t io n - 2 5 0 h a
E s ta b lis h e d a s a n I n d ia n R e s e r v e in 1 9 1 7
C u r r e n t A T R - 1 6 0 h a
P u r c h a s e d in 1 9 9 0 , in A T R p r o c e s s f o r p a s t 1 0 y e a r s
C r o w n L a n d u n d e r d is c u s s io n - 2 8 0 h a
C u r r e n tly in d is c u s s io n fo r d i s p o s itio n to M D P fo r A T R
P a r k la n d u n d e r d is c u s s io n - 1 5 5 h a
C u r r e n tly in d is c u s s io n fo r d i s p o s itio n to M D P fo r A T R
M O O S E D E E R P O I N T
F I R S T N A T I O N - 2 0 0 2
G e o r g i a n
B a y
T w e l v e M i l e B a y
1 2 M ile
B a y R d
M D P
Is a a c B a y
M D P
G o r d o n B a y
M D P
K in g B a y

19. Nature Reserve Deregulation:
 2 Life Science Inventories
 Environmental Study Report
 Ecological Assessment
 4 Land Use Plans
 Notification Protocol
 Stewardship Council
 Ecosystem Protection Agreement
 Park Management Plan

20. Sustainability
Modern Moose Deer Point

21. Urban vs Nature
 “Human beings are … a part of nature, as much so as
grizzly bears or bees or whales or sorghum cane. The
cities of human beings are as natural, being a product
of one form of nature, as are colonies of prairie dogs or
the beds of oysters.”
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961.

22. Moccasin Identifier
Trillium Park Carolyn King

23. Bob the medicine tree by DJS
This is Bob, he lives on my favourite tree;
does this tree belong to her, does this tree belong to me?
If a tree grows in the forest, do we get to breathe the air;
if a forest grows on a tree, does anyone know its there?
When the bear marks his territory, does someone stop to care;
when mushrooms blossom in the storey, does it help to heal the tear?
If a tree falls in the forest, does the land remember;
if a seedling waits in hiding, is it January, or December?
Does this tree belong to her, does she belong to this tree;
we named this bracket Bob, he lives in our favourite tree.

24. Emerging Vision?