By Kathryn Fraser, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Caledon Citizen On October 17, the Belfountain Heritage Society held a special plaque and a book launch at the Belfountain Community Hall. The event started with a new plaque unveiling at the Healing Canoe Garden, located in Belfountain. Chief Margaret Sault Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation unveiled the new plaque. It contains detailed information about Treaty 19, ReconciliACTION and a map of the area, including Belfountain, Cataract, Brimstone, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, Credit River, West Credit River and Dufferin Lake. One portion of the plaque speaks about the phrase, “As long as the river flows,” which is an Indigenous phrase that was historically used in the oral traditions of treaty-making to signal that the agreements were to…
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