Ottawa city council to vote on Tewin housing development Wednesday – APTN News
Feb 10, 2021
A massive Ottawa housing development project is being awarded to an Algonquin group and has chiefs in an uproar because they say the group is not Algonquin.
On Jan. 26 the City of Ottawa approved a pocket of 445 hectares of land for the development of a new suburb.
The land is owned by the Algonquins of Ontario who, with their development partner Taggart Group, are proposing to build the new community which they are calling Tewin, meaning home.
The new suburb will house up to 45,000 people once completed.
“We caught wind of this last week, late last week,” said Dylan Whiteduck, chief of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, an Algonquin community 100 kms north of Ottawa in Quebec.
