Anicinabe Park occupation remembered, 50 years later

By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  KENORA – Donald Kelly Sr. remembers Aug. 7, 1974, as the day his daughter was born, and the day he ceased participating in the armed occupation of Anicinabe Park. Kelly said his brother, also among the Anishinaabe occupiers, told him police wanted to have a word with him at the park’s perimeter. “Anyway,” Kelly recalled 50 years later, “I go over and the police – I don’t know who it was, the police chief or one of the superintendents or whatever you call them, but he was talking to the leadership at the gate and when I got over there, he says ‘Are you Donald Kelly?’ “I said ‘Yeah, who wants to know?’ “Anyway, they said ‘Mr. Kelly, this morning a daughter was…

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