It was a gorgeous summer day so I decided to take a drive out in the country. One of the routes I enjoy taking is HWY 6 out to Port Dover because it's a straight ride with no highway changes.
Highway 6 takes you through Caledonia, a place I used to love to visit but not since the natives made it a bit foreboding. Today I drove through the town and thought once again how pretty it is, very modern in some aspects but still holding on to that old town feeling. I drove past the infamous "Douglas Estates", the lovely subdivision planned a few years ago by a building entrepreneur but which the natives took over amid burning tires, blocked roads, ranting and drum beating. It hardly seems as though too much time has passed since that awful period in Caledonia but one look at "Douglas Estates" tells another story.
"Douglas Estates" was to be a beautiful new subdivision in Caledonia. It sits right on Hwy 6 and not far from the center of town. But the natives decided that the land belonged to them and they forced the legal owners out, barricaded themselves in and proceeded to harrass the life out of neighboring homes and, actually, the whole of non-native Caledonia. The O.P.P. protected the natives and allowed their criminal and unruly behaviour...we don't know why to this day!
As you drive by "Douglas Estates" today, you'll see what looks like a slum piece of property surrounded by untended weeds. There's a burnt out bus still sitting out front! A sign in front of the property shows it belongs to Six Nations...are they proud of this? If all the land they claim to own was handed over to them, would it all end up looking this way?
I don't believe natives really want the land because they don't know how to take care of it. What they really want is to blackmail the government into paying and paying and paying them into eternity.
"Douglas Estates" is a living example of what happens when we give in to rioting blackmailers. Once they got all that attention and excitement (plus free land thanks to the Canadian taxpayers), they've gone on their way and left a mess behind.
Maybe the natives will build a smoke shop there.
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