A little place in Ontario called Grand Bend used to depend wholly on a summer economy, based on a nearby provincial park and reserve Armed Forces base, both of which had the same name - Ipperwash. But the Kettle Point Indians stole it, and I heard their economy totally collapsed since then. It used to have a little amusement park down by the beach, but that closed ages ago.

And yes, they fucking STOLE it. The government had traded them Ipperwash for Kettle Point during World War 2, so that they could make the base as a training ground for tanks - CFRB Ipperwash consisted mostly of sand dunes with cedar scrub and a shit-ton of poison ivy, perfect for training tank crews to serve in North Africa for hunting Rommel. What do they do with it now? Probably fuck-all. At least the only wildlife there was bitey brown spiders (*and mosquitoes that can bite through anything). And there's a shit-ton of unexploded ordnance in those shifting dunes. Serve 'em right to come across some, they're fucking stupid enough to try to mess with 50 year old mortars. And the barracks are fire traps.

A little place in Ontario called Grand Bend used to depend wholly on a summer economy, based on a nearby provincial park and reserve Armed Forces base, both of which had the same name - Ipperwash. But the Kettle Point Indians stole it, and I heard their economy totally collapsed since then. It used to have a little amusement park down by the beach, but that closed ages ago.

And yes, they fucking STOLE it. The government had traded them Ipperwash for Kettle Point during World War 2, so that they could make the base as a training ground for tanks - CFRB Ipperwash consisted mostly of sand dunes with cedar scrub and a shit-ton of poison ivy, perfect for training tank crews to serve in North Africa for hunting Rommel. What do they do with it now? Probably fuck-all. At least the only wildlife there was bitey brown spiders, And there's a shit-ton of unexploded ordnance in those shifting dunes. Serve 'em right to come across some, they're fucking stupid enough to try to mess with 50 year old mortars. And the barracks are fire traps.