It is just half of the total payment. The other half of the payment will come from Tourism Barrie. The motion was passed by the divided council by six to five votes.
Other hosts were happy to listen to Baldwin share her stories - from her childhood on the reserve to moving to Toronto because her mother was afraid that her children would be taken to the residential school and the founding of the Centre.
Before colonization, Indigenous people prospered near Lake Simcoe. 1909 book A history of Simcoe County details their forceful removal to unproductive land.